As part of my latest project Sounding Peace, I have been visiting immersive sound facilities in Berlin and London over the past few months to try and figure what is the best way for me to ‘visualise’ an immersive sound sculpture. In recent years, and supercharged by my PhD research project The Ancestors, I have…
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Sounding Peace (2025)
My latest work Sounding Peace, builds on an earlier Arts Council England funded R&D project, Soldier Stories, in which we interviewed a small group of female veterans to talk about peacekeeping and female leadership in the forces, culminating in a test soundtrail What is the Sound of Peace?, geo- located at two locations in and…
Sonic hauntings on the radio
It’s always lovely when your work gets positive feedback and airplay. On Feb 12th, the long-running New Sounds show on WNYC Public Radio in New York broadcast an episode focusing on Sonic Hauntology. Have a listen, as host John Schaefer plays excerpts from the album Sonic Hauntings in A Big House and outlines some of the ideas…
Anima Mundi #5, Berlin (2024)
I’m excited to announce a new project that I’ve been working on in Berlin. First of all, some background – the two live shows and soundwalk that are featured below are part of a bigger project that I’ve been helping to co-curate – Anima Mundi #5. The whole project has been pulled together by the…
The Ancestors (2024)
From May 2019 – March 2023, I was artist-in-residence at Killruddery House & Gardens in Bray, County Wicklow as part of a practice-based PhD at SMARTlab, Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland, University College Dublin – funded by Irish Research Council (IRC). The research project Killruddery: Listening to the Archive was successfully completed in June…
listening to the wind (2024)
Wexford Arts Centre 20th February – 21 March (open Tues-Sat) Opening event 17th February, 3pm, with performances by Joseph Young and Suzanne Walsh, everyone welcome! listening to the wind is a four channel sound installation with custom built seating, entitled listening to the wind (below), inspired by the life and work of English artist, writer…
Artists-in-Residence Watts Gallery
In October-December 2023, Kay Aplin and myself are artists-in-residence at the beautiful Watts Gallery in Surrey, the former home of George (GF) & Mary Watts, a celebrated Victorian artist couple. The Watts founded the artist village in 1891 – it comprises their former home Limnerlease which houses their studios, a separate purpose-built Gallery for the…
French Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale (2023)
My sound piece The Destruction of Language (after Le Madame), originally created in 2008 and re-edited in 2023, has been selected as part of a programme of international sound works responding to the theme of Radio Utopia, News from the World in the French Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale from August 1-5th. The work…
SLEEPERTOWN in Italy
SLEEPERTOWN is on tour again, this time for its first iteration outside of Ireland. SLEEPERTOWN is a series of sound interventions created by 15 international artists, composers and musicians. SLEEPERTOWN uses mobile technologies (Geo-Fencing) to create a parallel listening world, digitally accessible within the public sphere via personal mobile devices. Each unique Work is triggered…
A Manual for Rematerialisation (2021)
On December 1st in Dublin, A Manual for Rematerialisation will be launched at the Dublin Art Book Fair at Temple Bar Gallery at 4pm. The book is the result of the Time Travel seminar I was selected for earlier in the year and all of the contributing artists, designers and makers have made work in…
Listening Hands (2021)
As part of the Interbeing project, which I am co-curating with ceramic artist Kay Aplin, we are producing a film inspired by the Tai Chi form. The film came about after I performed at the Park 19 artist residency centre in Guangzhou showcasing my Sonic Baton instrument which I use to conduct field recordings. After…
Circa Regna Tonat (2020)
On 18th Sept 2020 on the occasion of Culture Night in Ireland, my new commission Circa Regna Tonat (It thunders throughout the realm) was unveiled in Gorey, Co. Wexford as part of the ‘Sleepertown’ public art project curated by Richard Carr. The six geo-located audio works that are part of the commission (including mine) have…
Isolation Concert
The current crisis forces us all to be creative. When my concert in The Orangery at Killruddery in Bray, Ireland was postponed we decided instead to film the performance in the garden of The Ceramic House in Brighton where I am currently isolated. All of the sounds you will hear have been recorded in and…
Ground Zero on Radio Staalplaat (2020)
Ground Zero revisits some iconic material I collected on Wall Street during the crash of 2008. We arrived on Wall St as artists-in-residence for the Conflux Festival on Sept 11th, right in the middle of the first Obama presidential election campaign. Conspiracy theorists were out on the streets, spouting stories of Israeli Mossad involvement in…
#WLD2019
To mark World Listening Day 2019 I have recorded a performance of Dean Rosenthal’s Stones/Water/Time/Breath by the fountain at Killruddery, Bray in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, where I am currently artist-in-residence, as part of an Irish Research Council funded practice-based PhD with SMARTlab, University College Dublin. Link to the score here. Recorded binaurally with Sound Devices…
The Temple of Anagama
Following on from last summer’s attendance at the Kohila wood firing symposium in Estonia with ceramist Kay Aplin, in which I recorded the sounds of a 3-day anagama kiln firing, I am pleased to announce the second output from that trip. The first was the 4 channel sound installation that accompanied Kay’s “Fire and Water”…
Fire and Water, a ceramics and sound installation
View this post on Instagram Fire and water, a new work by Kay Aplin & Joseph Young – a unique collaboration in ceramics and sound. Showing next week at Collect Open 2019, Saatchi Gallery London. The water sounds come from Borines in Asturias, Northern Spain from the site where Kay gathered the tiny flora that…
A field in England / Prisoners (2018)
A field in England / Prisoners was produced as a result of a site-specific commission in Leicester, supported by De Montfort University and IRCAM. In Situ commissioned 3 artists to make temporary sonic works which animate historic spaces. I presented two interlinked pieces which explore the historic connection between Richard III and the City of…
Make Futurism Great Again! (2018)
#MFGA Today sees the launch of Make Futurism Great Again at the Estorick Collection, London a timely examination of Futurism in the 21st century by groundbreaking artist group Neo Futurist Collective. I founded the collective in 2007, in the guise of conceptual politician and crooner Giuseppe Marinetti. The launch is accompanied by a specially filmed performance of…
Landscape : Islands Concert Series (2017)
This Saturday, I will unveil a new release from Aural Detritus, featuring recordings of live performances from the 2016 Landscape : Islands Concert Series at In Camera at The Ceramic House. The cassette features performances from myself, Steve Beresford & Blanca Regina, Paul Khimasia Morgan and Brambling. There’s a very nice review of the cassette…
In Seoul for the final leg of ‘Made in Korea’
I am are here in Seoul with Kay Aplin (my co-curator of Made in Korea) and Hankil Ryu, to install a new exhibition of Kay’s work and to play a couple of concerts, using my Sonic Baton to recreate the original 4-channel sound installation made for British Ceramics Biennial, ‘Handmade/Automation’. The sounds for the piece were collected…
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