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May 26, 2026
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May 26, 2026
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April 14, 2026
Beyond the Spider (Listening to Houses Together)
April 14, 2026
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April 14, 2026
Prada Touch
April 14, 2026
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April 14, 2026
Sonic Migration - Listening to the Green Huts
November 7, 2025
Sonic Migration - Listening to the Green Huts
November 7, 2025

A collaboration with young artists from Lewes Priory and Seaford Head Schools, in partnership with Archaeology South East, UCL, Writing Our Legacy and The Lewes Green Huts Project. Connecting architecture, landscape and colonial legacy through listening.

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November 6, 2025
Available Light - Morgan Quaintance
November 6, 2025
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November 6, 2025
Listening Journal May - July 2025 - Near an Anxious Hum
November 4, 2025
Listening Journal May - July 2025 - Near an Anxious Hum
November 4, 2025

I’ve fallen a bit behind sharing extracts but these are some things I heard earlier this year.

In my studio I notice the radiator is gurgling like a churning stomach. As I listen more closely I discern three distinct layers of sound.

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November 4, 2025
July 24, 2025
Why Listening?
July 24, 2025
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July 24, 2025
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May 17, 2025
Neolithic Cannibals wins Sound of the Year award
May 17, 2025
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May 17, 2025

Beyond the Spider (Listening to Houses Together)

April 14, 2026
“For who is prepared to go beyond the spider, the ladybug and the mouse, to a point of identification with things forgotten in the corner?”
— Gaston Bachelard

Listening Beyond the Spider is an evening quietly engaging with all that is at the edges, or just beyond, in a house. Noticing the almost imperceptible that floats just out of reach, as delicate as the spider’s own web. Leaning in to corners, nooks, cupboards, cavities, where voices, sounds and experiences are reflected and filtered and maybe even captured by insulation, brick, plasterboard and layers of wallpaper and paint.

Honoured to be invited into my good friend and artist, Ju Row Farr’s house in Brighton, as part of her Wider Ranch Saloon evenings.

Contact me for tickets. Limited numbers as it’s an intimate event.

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