In July 2024, Julian presented Being-at-work in the Field at In the Field 2: A three day event exploring the themes, issues and practices of contemporary field recording. Full details and tickets are available from the Crisap website
In spring this year, the new owners at Nehaven Fort closed for restoration. Outwork, installed there for the last six years, was moved to a new location in Sussex run by The Ecomusicology Project.
Particularly exciting is the opportunity to run the acoustic tests that just weren’t possible to achieve on the windy coastline.
An invited contribution for Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, this paper presents six separate but connected understandings of a digital platform of listening vocabularies and protocols produced in the context of Listening Across Disciplines II, (LxDII) a cross- and transdisciplinary research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (AHRC), conducted by the authors from 2018 to 2022.
The paper is freely accessible at https://online.ucpress.edu/res/article/3/3/224/194087/Protocols-of-ListeningReflections-on-the
In 2024, Julian will be opening a Bar de Água as part of his residency at Binaural Nodar, Vouzela, Portugal
Julian has been commissioned to make a new geolocated sound work for Greenwich Park, in south London for autumn 2024.
Echoes in the Park is a new project by the Centre for Sound & Image at Greenwich University and will run on a custom version of the echoes platform
The app will launch sometime In November 2024.
Julian is very pleased to have had a forthcoming project supported by LOM audio under their LOM+you initiative.
Details coming soon…
Outwork proposes a defensive imaginary for Newhaven Fort; one in which it can monitor sonic events across the locale, where its provision for coastal auditon could play an role alongside the National Costalwatch; which rose to fill the gap left by the ‘rationalisation and modernisation’ of the Coastguard.
Outwork was installed at Newhaven Fort, East Sussex, UK between Autumn 2018 and Spring 2024.