Associations and Dislocations: Multisensory Interfaces for Collaborative Musical Experience

Associations and Dislocations is a series of projects broadly exploring the perceptual mechanisms and effects of presenting sound alongside images or objects, and the use of multi-person interfaces to encourage a collaborative sonic experience. Of interest are the emerging relationships embodied in the artworks (sonic/physical/visual, person/person, person/work)

Disrupted Architecture: Reimagining Buildings through Sound

This paper discusses work which changes our perception s of the built environment, and uses as examples two sound installations, Machines for Singing (2006) and Torch Song (2011) , which are designed to make audible hidden forces and events within the fabric of a building and to disrupt our preconce ived ideas o f a r- chitecture . Continuing a long lineage of soundart works which engage with architectural space, the pieces stream sounds collec t- ed from around a building to a listening point. By hearing the effect of human and environmental forces on the sounds ( M a- chin es for Singing ) or controlling them via a custom - made inte r- face ( Torch Song ), visitors gain a renewed understanding of the forces at play within the structure s around them

The Effectiveness of Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in Emergency Departments: A Multicentre Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

BACKGROUND: Alcohol misuse is common in people attending emergency departments (EDs) and there is some evidence of efficacy of alcohol screening and brief interventions (SBI). This study investigated the effectiveness of SBI approaches of different intensities delivered by ED staff in nine typical EDs in England: the SIPS ED trial. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Pragmatic multicentre cluster randomized controlled trial of SBI for hazardous and harmful drinkers presenting to ED. Nine EDs were randomized to three conditions: a patient information leaflet (PIL), 5 minutes of brief advice (BA), and referral to an alcohol health worker who provided 20 minutes of brief lifestyle counseling (BLC). The primary outcome measure was the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) status at 6 months. Of 5899 patients aged 18 or more presenting to EDs, 3737 (63·3%) were eligible to participate and 1497 (40·1%) screened positive for hazardous or harmful drinking, of whom 1204 (80·4%) gave consent to participate in the trial. Follow up rates were 72% (n?=?863) at six, and 67% (n?=?810) at 12 months. There was no evidence of any differences between intervention conditions for AUDIT status or any other outcome measures at months 6 or 12 in an intention to treat analysis. At month 6, compared to the PIL group, the odds ratio of being AUDIT negative for brief advice was 1·103 (95% CI 0·328 to 3·715). The odds ratio comparing BLC to PIL was 1·247 (95% CI 0·315 to 4·939). A per protocol analysis confirmed these findings. CONCLUSIONS: SBI is difficult to implement in typical EDs. The results do not support widespread implementation of alcohol SBI in ED beyond screening followed by simple clinical feedback and alcohol information, which is likely to be easier and less expensive to implement than more complex interventions

Solar work #2

A recording featuring the sounds of Mike Blow's 'Solar Work #2' installatio

Image & Sound Workshop 2018 / Live performance in Athens / Video and Audiovisual Book

A week-long workshop with 13 photographers and 4 sound artists, working with photographers Michael Ackerman and Stephane Charpentier and sound artist Alyssa Moxley, creating an audiovisual portrait of Athens and exploring audiovisual associations and dislocations. Outputs were an hour-long improvised performance at the Institut Francais in Athens (https://vimeo.com/275498880) and a book containing photos and sound recordings, entitled 'Almost True' and published in limited edition by Void (https://void.photo/)

"Ceremony" by Mike Blow, 2010

Ceremony uses speakers filled with water. Playing sounds through the speakers creates ripples on the surface of the water, and generates a visual and sonic patterns. The use of water in speakers references cymatics, the visualisation of sound waves using powder, liquids (water, glycerin, cornstarch) and even mercury, that was pioneered by Chladni and explored by Hans Jenny in the 1960s. Cymatics also inspired Alvin Lucier’s piece ‘Queen of the South’. "Ceremony" was featured in the Audiograft festival in 2011