Uppark tonight

Tonight is the opening of Unravelling Uppark in the wonderful setting of Uppark House atop the South Downs. Here is an invitation to the opening. It would be great to see you there! (photograph by Jim […]

Quartet has landed

‘Quartet’, my work for the Unravelling Uppark exhibition has arrived at the house, ready for the show which opens at the beginning of May. The engraved glass looks great against […]

Sculpting in sound II

Just a simple update today. I have been working on the three 3D models with Matt Fawkes and I think we are there! Now the hard task: to think of […]

Sculpting in sound

Walking around the grounds of Uppark, the trained ear of @mostlyscarce picked out numerous bird calls, which I am going to use as my raw material. Each call, when you […]

Heritage soundscape

Site visit to Uppark House yesterday where I met with the head gardener (@UpparkHG) and curators to talk about bringing birdsong into the house. The garden team avoid using power tools […]

Kith

I have always been a bit envious of the Germans for some of their words: Zeitgeist for instance, it is just so good that we have even adopted it into […]

Up on the Downs

Just out of art college we set up the first incarnation of artNucleus – Reinhild, Pauline and myself – and our first show was in Osterley Park House, a stately […]

Something to hold on to

We were doing so well, working in 3D, shaping the birdsong in the virtual space of the computer, doing things impossible in the ‘real’ world. Then a glitch, a crack […]

Sonic scroll

When you see the skylark’s song like this, you can’t but help to read it as a sonic sentence, complete with grammer, phrasing and meaning. But what to make of […]

In the blender

We seem to have cracked it! Transforming bird calls into 3D landscapes. I know, I was working on this a few years back making 2D images of 3D landscapes for […]