Cartographer's log
Projects, transmissions
and listening walks.
Upcoming
Out of Office
A portrait series celebrating neurodivergent creatives for ADHD Awareness Month, created by Bright Island, featuring Ren among the sitters.
Mycelial Threshold v2
A new staging of the Spore Listening material as immersive installation: part_02, sound as vibration. Transducers and exciters turn the gallery's surfaces into speakers, so the recording is not only heard but felt through the body, as if standing inside the mycelium as the signal decays and the root network listens back.
Past
Spore Listening
The sounds of a working mushroom farm: growing rooms humming, moisture in the air, substrate settling, and the barely there sound of fungus growing. A continuous 20 minute loop with no start or end, so you can step in at any moment and stay two minutes or twenty. Recorded through surfaces and into liquid, with contact mics on the substrate, a hydrophone in the water and an induction coil reading the machines, so we hear the farm from the inside. Listening through things rather than to them.
Experimental series / in progress
Glacial Listening
The sound of a dying cryosphere. An international collaboration with two Himalayan glaciologists, translating glacial melt research into sound: field recordings of meltwater, ice and high altitude change mapped to the measured data itself, so a worsening year is felt rather than read. Built to be heard through speakers and felt as vibration through the body, and returned to community as a listening exhibition and online sonic map across Thanet. Fieldwork in the Himalayas in 2027, with a listening exhibition touring Thanet venues later that year.
Symphonic Ecologies
An evolving installation shaped by the atmosphere, with wind, temperature and rain as compositional forces.
Listening walks
Bat Walks
Guided evening walks tuned to the calls of bats, listening to the more than human world after dark.
