Axial is intended for projection on a dome-shaped space, such as a
planetarium, and is one of a series of compositions investigating expanded
audiovisual formats. The compositional structure is continually condensing
– essentially composed of five iterations of the same material, each
subsequent iteration is heard 1.5 times faster than the previous one,
creating a sense of momentum and acceleration without any change in pitch
or proportional duration of the material.
Callicassini is a two-screen audiovisual work made in response to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The piece uses the honeycomb shape of the telescope as a reference point, and is composed using sound recordings made publicly available by NASA, primarily those of radio emissions from Saturn recorded by Cassini, in…
AllEco was commissioned by Radio Arts (http://www.radioarts.org.uk/) as part of their Dreamlands series. The work uses recordings of local radio broadcasting from around the UK, from the late 1970s to the late1990s, particularly the jingles and sound bites used to advertise specific programming. Local radio, perhaps more so than national…
