Alpine Choughs Feeding, Department of Creative Arts, Media, and Music, Dundalk Institute of Technology (2019):
Phonosheet Deconstruction, Cicada Consort Charity Music Marathon, University of Alabama Moody Concert and Recital Hall (2016):
Phonosheet Deconstruction was created from cutting up and crudely taping together two warped/scratched 7″ flexi disc records. The piece was played in the recital hall alongside a continuous stream of other stereo electronic works.
Rose Thorn Bird Song, Kinokophonography Night, British Library (2015):
Crafted from a hand-cranked cardboard turntable playing a 7” vinyl record of birdsong. A small rose branch and thorn was utilised as a crude tone arm and stylus.
Micro Card Play, Kinokophonography Night, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (2014):
A light-hearted compilation of ad hoc and very lo fi field recordings captured whilst on a boating holiday at the Norfolk Broads. The recording was edited together by devising a chance based operation using a pack of 52 playing cards.
Solo for Voice, Body and Microcassette Recorder, Sounds Sonic Festival, firstsite (2013):
A brief spoken word composition utilising a microcassette recorder (with the back cover removed), my speaking voice and body. The piece draws the listener’s attention to the format’s low-fidelity and limitations as an audio storage medium.
Tree Branch, Walking Wiltshire’s White Horses, Wiltshire Museum (2013):
A contact microphone captured the creaks, groans and bustle of leaves as a tree swayed in the wind, the recording was included in the Sound Park app and utilised at the Broad Town White Horse.
Adam of your Labours, Sound Device n.1, Rathmines Library, Dublin (2013)
Exploring the connection between sound, acousmatic music and literature. Organised in celebration of the Rathmines Library’s 100th anniversary and curated by sound artist La Cosa Preziosa. My contribution was inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Switch Off & Scratched DVD , Lightworks Festival of New Media (2012 – 2013):
Switch off documents the decline of electromagnetic activity inside a small analogue TV when switched off and unplugged. Scratched DVD records the laser and mechanism of a DVD player attempting and failing to read and play a heavily scratched and unreadable disc.
Michael Ridge 