One Hundred Organ pipes. A large-scale sound installation featuring former church organ pipes and new pipes made from steel tubing and plywood sounded by fans formerly used in gas boilers. The work immerses the listener in shifting harmonic clusters, exploring spatial acoustics, architectural resonance, and the psychological effects of sustained tones.
Groan Tubes
Sculptures in a darkened room. Performance for groan tubes, cut up piano, steel pan and chicken sounds.
"Groan tubes" attached to bicycle wheels. Groan tubes are a childrens toy containing a reed which moves through the air inside a plastic pipe thus changing the pipe’s length and the frequency of the note produced.
Noise machine – Club Disobey, London. Volume, saturation, commentary, and sensory overload within a live club environment. A performance piece combining a bright light with unconventional sound sources including groan tubes, smoke alarms, car horns, and Marshall amplifiers. The sound relayed by the amplifiers came from contact microphones attached to the cash tills at the club adding the sound of the monetary transactions taking place at the club during the performance.
The combination of a steel pan inverted over a desk fan that propels three ping pong against its suface with half the insides of a piano and two cymbals played by a set of small motors.
Randomly Activated Organ Pipe Clusters. The organ pipes are triggered unpredictably by electronics, producing shifting chords and dissonant textures.
Machine with Induction Microphone and Camera Flash System. A hybrid mechanical/electronic instrument that generates both sound and notation. An induction microphone captures the electrical activity of a camera flash capacitor as it charges and discharges. A rotating drum triggers the system and moves the balloons and manuscript paper. A pen connected to a speaker “writes” the score in real time.
Table Organ. A fusion of furniture with experimental musical instrument building. The legs of these stacked tables have been cut, hammered and welded to create organ pipes. Air is blown down the pipes from a fan inside the table tops. Each of the twelve cut legs plays a different note of the chromatic scale.
Two sixths of a piano with resonators attached with the insides of another whole piano, a steel sheet, three cymbals and a bicycle wheel.
A recording of the sound produced was combined with low-resolution video recordings of fireworks to create a sound painting for projector and speakers.
An electric motor drives a bicycle wheel which raises and drops a large hammer which in turn vibrates a steel sheet. The piece may be a version of La Monte Young's composition X (any integer - in this case 41) for Henry Flynt from 1961 which consists of an instruction for a performer to repeat a loud, heavy sound every one to two seconds as uniformly and as regularly as possible for a long period of time.
Documentation of three experimental instruments played at a futurist noise music festival. Use of industrial sound and the rejection of conventional musical structures in the futurist tradition.
For sound sculpture and orchestra - A collaborative performance combining a custom-built sound sculpture, bells and horns with live improvisation. Featuring musicians from Oxford Improvisors alongside film elements. Film by John Grieve, Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray.
Acoustic phenomena and psychoacoustics
Breathing Pipes (out of phase) - combines the work for thirty pipes (lower picture) with the work for small organ pipes (pictured above).
Sound Sculpture for dustbin, half a bicycle, electric motors, and twelve saws.
Two Resonating Devices.
Steel Sheet Resonance – BBC Recording Session. A collaborative recording with sound artists Clive Graham, Clive Hall and Michael Prime that includes a motor-driven steel sheet manipulated with additional motors and a hand saw. Captured in a studio setting and later mixed for release by Clive Graham. Released on the Paradigm Discs label.
Motor Driven Overtones – Cymbals, Piano Strings and Steel. Low-voltage motors fitted with tape strips excite cymbals, piano strings, and a metal sheet, producing a complex overtone structures. Duration 19:50.
Low Frequency Organ Pipes – Spatial Audio Recording. Two large organ pipes of slightly different lengths produce deep, low-frequency tones. The recording technique involves moving a microphone across the sound field, capturing shifts in phase and amplitude. Due to the frequency range, optimal listening requires full-range speakers.
Piano and Electric Motors – Bath festival UK. Shifting tones and overtones generated by the interaction between low voltage motors and piano strings.
Sewing Machine, Motor and Drum Kit. An ensemble combining a pedal operated sewing machine frame, electric motor, guitar, bass drum, and hi-hat.
Poem for pieces of metal, Formula 1 car engines, jet engines and the space shuttle.
Duration 10 minutes.
The sound of small motors interacting with a concrete floor.
Meaning machine #2 (vox humana, meaning, selfie, truth) - for organ pipes and speakers.
