Magdeburg

On golden hares by Kaffe Matthews and the BRI – a new way to play and listen to organ music and to explore the everyday experience of the city. Launching Saturday 11 Aug 2018, [...]

Acquisition of knowledge makes you seek more. With clearer recording ideas, I’m suddenly in search of a theoretical understanding of this organ I am now wanting to play every day. LO – I find [...]

Yes stereo recording has to be all about listening. Your equipment, recording box inc. microphones are your instrument. Not just a tool. Yes we know all this and the reality of putting it all [...]

I had another day with the Walloner organ this week which was concluded with the kantor coming in to do his evening practice. He gave me a few tips, my favourite being turning off the power [...]

So it was a yes and I’ve been given an afternoon to play the organ in the Walloner church.  It was built in 1990 and is small but can go through a wild range of sounds.  I’m realising of course [...]

Last weekend I was in Essex and ended up inside the church I’ve known since I was tiny. I’m not even remotely religious but I like churches and have visited many, often as it was the only place [...]

I’ve been here three days now, walking and listening and meeting and recording the people and the varieties of fountains and spaces inside and out that have jumped at me here. The early morning [...]

x marks the start, then head yellow north. [ back in Magdeburg making sonic bike piece for kunstmuseum show. opening 24.5.18] Score/route mapped already. @bicrophonics #sonicbike

The special bonus to this project is the commitment by the Kunstmuseum to sonic bikes. They’re not using the BRI’s but are going to build at least four of their own, meaning that post this [...]

I’m commissioned to make a new sonic bike work for an exhibition looking to dissolve the borders between visual arts and music at the Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieber Frauen (a former monastery) [...]