Mutek Montreal

Montreal is a fascinating city, the perfect home for Mutek, a festival which I can only compare to Barcelona’s Sonar festival for it unique setting and electronic music focus. The first thing I learned about the city is a key pastime of its inhabitants a hundred years ago was magic shows, having visited the […]

CMA Conference

I will be talking in Bristol on 23rd Sept about Radio Arts and how artists are using community radio at The Community Media Conference 2017: Voices in a Changing World. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-community-media-conference-2017-voices-in-a-changing-world-tickets-35965371394 Panel Session 3: Creative responses – Chair: Caroline Mitchell (Transnational Radio Encounters), Maggie Ayre (BBC Arts), Magz Hall (Radio Arts), Howard Jacques (Resonance FM), Sam Richards and Lona Kozik […]

Pirate Radio Manchester Science Museum

I am running a Radio Arts workshop at Museum of Science and Industry Manchester Sunday 22nd Oct, “Go radio gaga as we explore the science and tech as we explore the science and tech behind broadcasting and transmitting pirate radio. Inspired by Samson Young’s radio plays about Chinese migrants making their way to Europe on foot, […]

Mutek Voicing Gender (Radio Hats)

Voicing Gender can be heard at the Mutek Festival at Place Des Arts, 22nd – 27th August, 175 Saint-Catherine St, Montreal, QC H2X 1Y9, Canada http://www.mutek.org/es/montreal/2017/artists/9344-magz-hall-alt-barbican Voices define and identity us. How does one retrain their voice to create a perceived ‘authentic voice’. Frances Dyson wrote “to be listened to or even heard on radio, women […]

Sound + Environment 2017

I am talking about solar powered sound works at 29 June – 2 July 2017 University of Hull Sound + Environment 2017 is a four day conference bringing together artists and scientists to explore the ways that sound can deepen our understanding of environments. For example, recent developments in the field of ecoacoustics are proving fruitful in […]

“Plant Music”

“Tree Radio” is in a article called “Plant Music” in the magazine “Good Things We Learn from Plants” (from California) written by Carlo Patrao, Evan Crankshaw and Victoria Stöcker. Its a compendium of artists who use plants to create music or sonic pieces. “Tree Radio” is included in the “generative music by plants” section along with Michael Prime, Mileece, Miya Masoaka, Mamory […]

alt.barbican and MuteK Festival

Delighted to be part of The Barbican and The Trampery alt.barbican as one of the inaugural cohort of five artists selected for the major new accelerator for innovative artists working at the intersection of art and technology. I am making a new binaural work called Gendered Voice which will be exhibited at MUTEK Festival Montreal […]

Deutschlandradio Kultur

Listen to a short radio feature from Andrea Richter aired 19/4 17 about my #radioart work on Germany’s National Radio Deutschlandradio Kultur stream or download it from this link (click on the title. http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/audio-archiv.517.de.html?drau%3Abroadcast_id=607 …

The Sound of Memory Symposium: Sound-track/Sound-scape

I am talking at Sound of Memory symposium April 24th at Goldsmiths here are full details of the day as a pdf Paper programme https://www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/events/soundofmemorysymposium.html

The Clearing

In July, I will be living in the future off grid, for a week looking after the Clearing at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park and writing a blog about my experiences there July 24th – 29th. So till then here is some background on the project which has been set up by artists Alex […]