Interview, ‘Sonic Hauntings in a Big House’

There’s a lovely long-form interview on the Farpoint Recordings website about the ideas behind my 2024 album, ‘Sonic Hauntings in a Big House’. The piece explores the practice of sonic hauntology and how field recording, philosophy and chance came to play their part in the making of the album. There are also links through to…

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The Big House Made of Sound (2026-7)

Following on from The Ancestors at Killruddery House & Gardens in Ireland, I have started a new postdoctoral artistic research project at Annes Grove in County Cork, supported by Research Ireland and the Office of Public Works (OPW). My aim is to interrogate the written archives, speak to the surviving family members who formerly owned the…

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Immersive sound research

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)

Sounding Peace is a virtual sound sculpture which interrogates the subject of peace and peacekeeping through the eyes and ears of British military veterans.  This ongoing project builds on an earlier Arts Council England funded R&D phase, Soldier Stories, in which we interviewed a small group of female veterans to talk about peacekeeping and female…

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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…

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Sonic Hauntings in A Big House (2024)

This week sees the release of a new vinyl album on Farpoint Recordings, Sonic Hauntings in a Big House. The work is a limited edition of 250 copies, plus artist proofs. The album emerged out of a practice-based PhD in Ireland, in which I investigated the archives of a historic house in Bray, County Wicklow,…

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Nominated for #SWS24 Awards

It’s always nice when your work is recognised and acknowledged in some way, especially when you’re not expecting it! I am happy to announce that I have been shortlisted for the annual Sound Walk September Award, hosted by Walk Listen Create. The nomination comes for my audio paper Soundwalking. Listening and Contested Histories which I…

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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…

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Edges, Watts Gallery (2024)

Tomorrow, at Watts Gallery & Artists Village the Edges project enters its final phase with the opening of a collaborative international exhibition of sound and ceramics, featuring artists from Ireland and Estonia. Edges began with a residency and exhibition, Peripheries at The Ceramic House in April-May 2022 and continued last summer with a residency at…

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Soldier Stories – a new aur(e)ality

From September 2023 – February 2024, I spent time researching and developing a new project investigating the creation of digital peace monuments in public spaces, supported by a DYCP award from Arts Council England. As part of this, with help from my producers Harry Ross and Helen Scarlett O’Neill (pictured above), I interviewed a small…

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‘The Ancestors’ on RTÉ Lyric FM

I was recently interviewed by Vanessa Noonan for the flagship ‘Culture File’ strand on RTÉ Lyric FM about my hauntological soundtrail The Ancestors. You can listen here or on Soundcloud (below). artofnoises · Radio interview ‘The Ancestors’ on RTÉ Lyric FM

Mapping the Ancestors (2024)

On 4th April 2024, my new publication Mapping the Ancestors was launched in The Orangery at Killruddery House & Gardens in Bray, Ireland. The A2 foldout map was designed to accompany The Ancestors, a geo-located hauntological soundtrail installed at Killruddery, and created as part of my PhD research, ‘Killruddery: Listening to the Archive’. Its design and publication was…

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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…

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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…

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Immersion :: exhibition (2023)

This month sees the opening of a new group exhibition exploring field recording based practice in the gallery space. Entitled Immersion, the show is curated by artist Scott Sherk and opens on December 16th at Soft Machine Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania. I am exhibiting In A Shetland Landscape, a work that came out of a collaborative…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Follow me on Bandcamp

I have a well-kept secret…I own a Bandcamp page which features two publications created during the life and death of Neo Futurist Collective, the artist group I founded in 2007, and which self-destructed at the Estorick Collection, London in 2018 (a good place to self-destruct, I’m sure you’ll agree). The first is The Gentrification Suite…

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Perfection of Understanding (2022)

PERFECTION OF UNDERSTANDING is a limited edition artist book and CD containing commissioned artworks, essays and documentation of Interbeing, an exploration of collaborative ceramic and sound art practice in Britain and China, curated and edited by Joseph Young and Kay Aplin (supported by funding from Arts Council England). Inter-being is a Buddhist concept that comes…

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ofnoises.art

The future is dead! Long live the future! I founded NeoFuturist Collective  in 2007, launched on the streets of Brighton on the 99th anniversary of the publication of the original Founding of Futurism manifesto on Feb 20th 2008. It self-destructed during The Final Noise at the Estorick Collection, London on October 16th 2018. Its legacy…

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