I make sound installations in which human voices, breath and environmental sounds are given places in a room or landscape. I am interested in what happens between people when they listen and make sound together. My works often begin with a shared recording session and time spent getting to know a place and the people who live there. Listening comes first: the place and the people decide what shape the work takes.
I record people together, each on their own microphone, to preserve each voice and its relationship to the others. In the installation, each voice has its own loudspeaker, typically across 20 to 40 channels. Listeners can approach one voice, hear the whole from a distance or stay in one place for a while. Speaker placement, materials, seating, silence and duration are all part of the composition. I also build loudspeakers and combine sound with moving images.
My background in theatre sound design informs how I think about space, time and the presence of an audience. A longstanding meditation practice has deepened my interest in attention, bodily experience and how listening changes over time.
I work in museums, galleries and public environments. I want to create situations that give listeners time and freedom to find their own relationship with sound, place and the presence of other people.