Heath Robinson & vinegar

I’m preparing a piece of video for the performance on thursday evening. Every ten minutes I film for two. However hard I try, I always end up producing some Heath […]

Teaching Oliver to breath

Today I am experimenting with a computerised reading voice to turn some of the highlighted text into sound. Let me introduce Oliver, the name of the voice that I am […]

Finding some structure

It was one of those days: Tadek’s car blew up so he couldn’t make it, so I had to get on on my own. I’ve started to put together some […]

Looping the chalk

This morning Tadek and I have been working on the ‘Score for a Flautist‘, getting our heads around the loop station (on the floor with the green lights) with which […]

Listening in on the Cretaceous

This morning I am listening to the bubbles produced when chalk is dissolved in vinegar (malt vinegar, Sainsburys). Yes, you may well ask! It is the sound of carbon dioxide being […]

Where it all becomes fluid

Today I’m setting up for the show in The Hardwick Gallery. This is the second time in the past few months that I have relocated by studio into a gallery for […]

Talk-performance confirmed

So, yes, I am really happy to be able to confirm that the talk-performance with Tadek is going ahead on Thursday 17th! We have just met in the gallery to […]

(S)core

Part of the ‘score’ I want to produce for Tadek is in the form of a film storyboard. I have been working on that this morning, along with searching for […]

Score for a Flautist

This month I am really looking forward to my short residency and collaboration at the Hardwick Gallery, 7th to 18th March, called Score for a Flautist. I will be working […]

Beatboxing, flute-style

In normal beatboxing all the sounds are made by manipulating the human voice box (as seen here in this x-ray of the mouth and tongue articulating the main vowels). What is different when […]

And did those feet…

Well, it’s been awhile since the last post, but with the sun out and spring in the air it’s now time to get going again. It was in the preface to […]

Giants in Winchester

Last week I installed the first part of the Giants of Albion series in Winchester Cathedral for the 10 Days Winchester arts biennial (which is longer than ten days, running until […]

Close, too close?

I have lived in the shadow of this building for more than a decade (seen here from my front door). The cathedral close at Gloucester has been my home all […]

When the drawing stops

Just spent a fantastic few days ‘live drawing’ in the Line Gallery. Chalk on blackboard. Here is a panoramic shot of the gallery before I cleared all my stuff out earlier […]

What we talk about when we talk about drawing … update

For the drawing event I am organising for next week […]

Fixing the friable

Happy to be working with Gavin McClafferty again (who built the furniture for the installation at Waterhay last year). This time we are trying to work out how best to fix the chalk drawings […]