Bad Buffer

Bad Buffer performance in a multi-storey car park with Louie Perillo. Heavy guitar, not-guitar Dirty Electronics-stylee. Yarmonics festival of sound and new music September 2024. Photo honor ash

Beyond the Loudspeaker

A performance-installation with Tim Shaw that explores ways to produce electronic sound without the use of conventional loudspeakers.

Beyond the Loudspeaker was developed with Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong and presented at the Sound Forms Festival at Tai Kwun Contemporary November 2023 and Newcastle Contemporary Art March 2024. More ...

Boiler Room Dance

Live music performance by Dirty Electronics, with film featuring butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno and photography by Bob Fujisaki ... a dialogue between moving image, sound, installed light and ‘impossible’ instruments. At IKLECTIK, London, October 2023

Part of Rebellious Bodies butoh dance festival

Transmission Lines Tour

Performance-installation for spark-gap transmission and electromagnetic spectrum. London, Czechia, Austria, Slovakia. March/April 2023 (with Tim Shaw)

Interrogating the Noise

Performance and sound installation for Not Necessarily in the Right Order, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Greenwich, February 2023 (with Dushume)

Raw Data, Rough Mix

Curated research, composition, workshop, performance, text (with John Bowers, Tim Shaw, Robin Foster, Akihiro Kubota, et al)

See Raw Data, Rough Mix: Towards an Integrated Practice of Making, Performance and Pedagogy

Radical22

Eurorack synth module. Generative composition for microprocessor and artwork PCB (with Max Wainwright)

Monstrous Assemblage

Curated research, performance-installation

A Collection of Pieces for Group Performance on Zoom

Commissioned by the International Online Festival of Pun-filled Music and Arts Council Tokyo, Japan

Radical Chip and Radical Nails

DIY sound circuit and risograph A2 print poster/booklet

Mute 4.0 Synth

Physical Edition - collaboration with Mute Records, composition and artwork PCB (with Adrian Shaughnessy and Regular Practice)

Sacrificial Floors

Performance-installation tour UK (Newcastle, Birmingham, London, Bristol) and video documentary. Supported by Arts Council England (with Tetsuya Umeda and Tim Shaw).

57mm Wavetable Synth and In House Press

Composition for microprocessor, text to sound and artwork PCB. Performance with mini dot matrix printer. Commissioned by Noisexistance Festival, Hamburg (with Max Wainwright).

Polytik

Playing with graphics and sound - sound device, artwork PCB, and composition for microprocessor and analogue circuits. Collaboration with Jack Featherstone, bleep and production and technology studio Artists & Engineers.

Dark Electronics

Composition and performance event exploring installation art and maker culture. Commissioned by the Sapporo International Art Festival (SIAF), Japan (with Kanta Horio).

Violations and Colossus

Sound device and artwork PCB. Generative composition using feedback and live coding. Commissioned by DIY Sounding Festival held at Café Oto, London.

Making for Radio

Radio composition commissioned by the Czech Radio (45 mins)

Scream

Sound device and artwork PCB exploring live coding using the voice. Commissioned by We Are Europe (EU’s Creative Europe program) for Insomnia Festival, Norway (with Wasabii Ng).

beta-mash

Hand-held, artwork PCB video processor/mixer - artwork inspired by the Skids Wide Open EP sleeve. Commissioned by the Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens for Greece of the 80s exhibition.

Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA)

Workshop, performance

Sonar 20th Anniversary Synth

Hand-held sound device, artwork PCB, and generative composition for microprocessor and analogue circuit. Commissioned by Sonar International Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art, Barcelona, Spain.

Still

Performance piece based on the charging and discharging of a disposable camera’s flash circuit. For sound, light and movement/dance (hacked cameras, tuba, clarinet, oboe and piano). Commissioned by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

7-Segment Display

Generative composition and artwork PCB for sound and light built around a screen made from LCD 7-segment displays. Commissioned by Athens Video Art Festival, Greece.

Charge/Discharge

Large-group performance piece based on the generation of electronic current using DIY Faraday Generators and the charging/discharging of capacitors. Commissioned by Dartington Arts.

Hug

Performance piece for noise boxes. Commissioned by Helsinki Music Centre (Musiikkitalo) & Sibelius Academy, Finland. And performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

Solder a Score

Workshop-installation/performance-installation exploring sound circuits as scores. Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (part of the Notation and Interpretation Festival).

Dirty Carter Experimental Sound Generator

Sound device and artwork PCB (with Chris Carter)

Merzbow with the Dirty Electronics Ensemble

Large group performance. Capsule, Birmingham, 2007

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