Sound Design
Spatial Audio
Music Production
Audio-Visual Installation
Mixing/ Mastering
Teaching
DJ/ Live Performance
I’ve always been preoccupied with sound-as-architecture, and as early as my my fine art degree show work, I’ve attempted to use sound and performance to build spaces and create spatial experiences, In 2020, I met Ed Cooke, who was obsessed with an invention by the avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, conceived and built with the help of Fritz Bornemann for the 1970 Osaka world Expo; the Kugelauditorium. Ed couldn't shake the image of Stockhausen's incredible spherical concert hall for sound and light. It was hard to find out much about Kugelauditorium; it appeared to have been swallowed up by history, lost to the mists of time. It was an amazing early laboratory of the senses, and such an obviously pioneering feat of engineering and yet, there was nothing like it in this world, and few seemed to care, or even know about it.
When Ed and I crossed paths, we hit the ground running to try and understand the Kugelauditorium's history and potential. We started building fast and furious iterations, small and low cost, with each version adding more complexity; incremental evolutions to deepen our knowledge of what might be possible with a spherical sensory laboratory such as pioneered by Stockhausen. We started at a fraction of the scale of the original Kugelauditorium, focusing on sound first, and experimenting with a wide spectrum of compositions, sound design, hardware interfaces, live and recorded material, and various spatial audio formats. The project has come a long way in a very short time with the help of an ever-growing collective of artists, engineers and architects.