16/03/2006 - 7:00pm

In The Field, Location-based Sonic Art Projects

Broadcast on ResonanceFM, [Clear Spot]

Presenter: Tom Wallace
Panelists: Zoë Walker, Neil Bromwich, Duncan Speakman and Simon Keep

This discussion will focus on location-based sonic art and site-specific, community orientated projects. Using radio and other public means of aural distribution, these projects involve and depend on community members in the process of creation.

Presenter Tom Wallace is a sound artists, DJ and a long-time ResonanceFM presenter.

Panelists Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich have worked together since 1999, their projects include, 'My Island Home' for the Victoria and Albert Museum, 'Fusion', a commission in collaboration with the plastic surgery unit, St Johns Hospital Livingstone and The Fruit Market Gallery Edinburgh; Duncan Speakman's 'Dirty Weather', 'Aural State' and 'Sound from Above the Ground' are all works for mobile listeners and interrogate the links between sound, memory and place; Simon Keep is a musician and sound artist, he most recently collaborated in organising Radio Taxi, a week long FM broadcast and with the help of pupils from a local school he documented the soundscape of the local area.