VAST, SLENDER BOUNDARIES
(2024)
Pheobe riley Law & Jez riley French
VAST, SLENDER BOUNDARIES - traces that ask us to reconsider the role of perception when listening to environments, their non-human inhabitants, and our effects on them. We invite your ears inside the micro-worlds of moss, tree roots, ants nests, bee hives, coral dissolving, glacier ice releasing air trapped for thousands of years, and to locales interacting with shifting communities.
extremes of scale, time and impact
tidal codings of thirst, drought and opulence
commissioned for Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg 2024
'sour bay' performance + field listening / recording workshop - Fabrica30 festival, Italy - July 2024
Dep-Can-Gre-Sou - multi-channel sound installation + graphic scores
Royal College of Art - June 2024
with Jez riley French
Sonic Acts Biennale, Amsterday - February 2024
sugars,
starch light
Blankets, oceanic layers across place. Symbiotic colonisations, sonically intense, revealing their vast, shifting micro-environments.
Moss Listening features recordings (traces) of the inner sounds of common moss species, the soil horizons they maintain and myhychorizal shifts, recorded with self-built microphones. Organ tones mirror systems of circulation and flow, alongside performative objects and touch referencing climate stress and re-connection.
8 + 2 channel diffusion, performative objects, moss
Hannah Pezzack's essay 'Under the Spell of the Sensuous' is now available via hethem.nl & features a response to 'moss listening' performed by myself & Jez riley French at Sonic Acts
"The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram is a defining text in ecological thought. Revisiting the seminal work nearly 30 years after it was published, Amsterdam-based British writer Hannah Pezzack explores its themes of animism, entanglement, and sensorial encounters."
I'm back from co-hosting murmuration #4 - performing place in Scotland. 
here are some comments from the guest artists & participants;
"A week of listening and sharing ideas around recording and performing with sounds from the field. With such an amazing bunch of people from around the world...Thank you so much to Jez and Pheobe for creating space for connecting through listening, sensing and sharing ideas. I'm so grateful for your generosity ~ it spreads and inspires and I think I speak for everyone who participated when I say that this week gave a giant boost both in knowledge and excitement of working with sound"
"By far the best workshop I've been to. The atmosphere created by Jez & Pheobe was special. Thank you:
"Feeling overwhelmed after an amazing week of field recording in the Scottish Highlands participating in #murmuration4, beautifully hosted by Jez riley French and Pheobe riley Law"
"Amazing week...massive thanks to Pheobe and Jez, sharing their knowledge and experience of listening and recording...and big thanks to everyone involved and physically present who made time in their life to come along and share this tremulously rich, lush and fun experience!"
"MERCI Jez and Phoebe for organising it so well, and inviting these very unique guests. New ways of listening, recording, creating and sharing"
"thanks for the amazing week. Its been an incredible experience, and i've never felt so heard and understood while learning about sound"
"Thank you so much for a super inspiring week! Its been so healing to be together with such warm, funny and loving people!"
"Feeling so full of joy after the most wonderful week with a bunch of very special people. Thank you so much Jez and Pheobe for all of your hard work and for bringing us together and thank you for being so kind and generous with your knowledge and time"
"Thank you all for your generosity, it was such a special week"
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Magnified Ear - exhibition 1st-18th June
opening 1st June with an evening of performances, including a piece referencing the quirks of Sound Art history & Atsuko Tanaka's Bell piece (1955)
I'm also showing;
Communicut
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Faulty Borders (a collaborative video essay with Jez riley French)
There is also a catalogue with 12inch vinyl.
Machine Equities
reimagining kinship with machines
(2023)
Installation: Sound, film and text
(on-going series)
installation - Here Becomes Elsewhere exhibition, Fabrica, Italy - Feb 2023
Machine Equities is a sound-focused performance installation, featuring various ear-worm QR codes placed around Fabrica. It explores machine technologies as collaborators; our relationship with them, other ways to consider their aesthetic value, potential rights and future narratives. The piece unfolds through symbiosis / mimesis, exposing an otherworld of sonic interactions often ignored in the present and objectified in designing futures.
As we filter out the sounds of machines, we learn to find them irritating or eventually forget theu are there. By sounding alongside machines we can consider their agency and how we might, through a perceptual shift, find hoovers sonically enjoyable, or air conditioning as comforting as our own humming. Can we and should we begin to develop sonic landscapes with equity for machines and their AI controllers?
Human / machine
Pheobe Riley law / Film by 2000 auto-mower
Thanks to: Performers include Lily McCraith, Stefano Dealessandri, Ava Rasti, Bianca Marchesan, Meli Berne, Nabila Ernada, Julia Gallo, Karolina Wojtas, Liu Baoyu, Alberto Papparotto, Ricardo Androni, Jelle Peter Van Bouwhorst, Coco Allred, Sophie Shely and Josef Paul. Writers include: Je rilez french, ChatGPT, Celia Bickerseth, Roman Vaughan Williams, Richard Reeman, Martin Riley, Tam Lines, Rachel Elizabeth Hancock, Simon James, Gen Mungo, Will Dixon, Cj Pitcher, Charlotte Dawson, Maisie Wills, Millie Player, Simon James, Zamal, Jesse Howarth, Mitsuko and Fumi.
Thanks to those who shared their time and support: Jez riley French, Vanessa De Michelis, Carlos Casas, Theresa Wong, Simone Da Ros, Marta Celso, Daniela Mesina.
I am currently a resident at Fabrica Research Centre in Italy
communicut
available to stream on the MSCTY website
Elements venture into more invisible forms of terrestrial signals; outmoded technologies, normally inaudible threads of radio, internet and electromagnetic waves mapping across spaces. A collection of answer-phone recordings between myself and my dad are a personal reflection, symbolic of private phone systems, tape-based answerphones, structures of soft memory. Generative virtual synthesisers as a mode of net-based transmission alongside the empty sound track of film stock. Field recordings of inter-species communication and our humorous attempts at imitation, of telephone lines along the humber, and cello, with its set of connections between personal histories, location and experience
OH O SALINITY
an installation / research project featuring film, sound / music, objects and performance events.
a 16 page booklet + download of the film soundtrack is available here
new sound works coming soon
salt, snare drum, contact mics, vibration speakers,environmental elements
image from a series of performative interactions, Glenshee, Scotland - June 2022
Windows tape release
I have a small number of copies of a limited edition joint cassette that I have made, with Jez riley French, for the Presque Tout label, available here
two traces of windows looking out from West Dean, an historic house with links to Leonora Carrington and Surrealism. One documents the building whilst it was covered during restoration and the other with it back in full view.
I have a collaborative score available in 'Walking from Scores'
alongside;
Meiko Shiomi, Simone Forti, Alison Knowles, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Stephen Chase, Takehisa Kusogi, Alisa Oleva, Elena Biserna (who also complied the book), Viv Corringham, Peter Ablinger, Milan Adamčiak, G. Douglas Barrett, Blank Noise , George Brecht, Cornelius Cardew, Giuseppe Chiari, Seth Cluett , Philip Corner, Bill Dietz, Amy Dignam , David Dunn, Haytham El- Wardany, Esther Ferrer, Francesco Gagliardi , Jerome Giller , Oliver Ginger, Anna & Lawrence Halprin, David Helbich , Dick Higgins, Christopher Hobbs, Jerome Joy , Katrinem , Debbie Kent, Bengt af Klintberg, James Klopfleisch, Milan Knížák, Jirí Kovanda, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Bob Lens, Ligia Lewis , Alvin Lucier, Walter Marchetti, Larry Miller, iLAND/Jennifer Monson, Max Neuhaus, Open City & Emma Cocker, Nam June Paik, Michael Parsons, Ben Patterson, Mathias Poisson, Anna Raimondo, Paul Sharits, Mark So, Standards, Nicolas Tardy , Davide Tidoni, Ultra-red , Isolde Venrooy , Carole Weber, Manfred Werder, Franziska Windisch , Ben Vautier, La Monte Young.
available for pre-order via Les presses du réel
thanks to Elena Biserna & all involved in getting this to print, translated & available
the crystal detector - Jez riley French & Pheobe riley Law
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OH O SALINITY - by Pheobe riley Law
at Burning Man 2022
with new mixes for the 54 speaker Sonic Sphere / Kugel Auditorium installation, alongside works by Jennifer Walshe & Matilde Meireles An estimated 15,000 people accessed the sphere to listen over the course of the festival.
thanks to Merijn Royaards & the team for the invite & all the work in the sand storms of the Nevada desert.
Photos of Sonic Sphere by Kugel Collective
faulty borders (20:00)
video essay with Jez riley French
now available online
I will be one of the 'fellows' for the 2021 Making Tracks programme, creating a new fixed media sound piece during a residency at Cove Park, followed by a national tour performing at venues in York, Sheffield, oxford, Nottingham, Settle, Bristol, London, Greenock and Porthowen
more info and tickets for the tour can be found here
HERD - my degree show exhibition, delayed from 2020, is now showing at Newcastle University
4 channel sound + constructed objects, soil and smell
sound piece features field recordings, cello, generative virtual synthesiser and spoken texts*
*with thanks to Jenny Berger Myhre and Eliza Bozek
scores | over borders #2
curated by Pheobe riley Law and Jez riley French
Following on from the first collection, for over borders #2 artists / composers were asked to send scores that, somehow, can use the act of walking as a way to question the objectification of environments and the role of 'stepping back' from a human centric view of place. Our thanks to all those who responded with their work.
It is now available as a free PDF here
Pheobe riley Law
Jez riley French
Nathalie Brum
Isobel Anderson
Catherine Clover
Vivienne Corringham
Francesca Simmons
Veronica Daniela Cerrotta
Eliza Lauren
Geraldine Vanspauwen
Tuomas Ollikainen
Vivian Wang
Cheryl Leonard
Felicity Mangan
Sharon Phelan
Eliza Bożek / moltamole
scores | over borders #1
curated by Pheobe riley Law and Jez riley French
over borders
This publication began as an idea to share some of the scores* by myself & my dad, Jez riley French, connected to the concept or effects of borders, which we then expanded to include work by others in our creative communities. Artists / composers were asked to send scores (photographic scores,text scores, graphic scores) that, in some way, referenced border; social, political, virtual, perceptual, environmental or between species. Our thanks to all those who responded with their work.
* a smaller selection of these are included
It is now available as a free PDF here & via the Walking Festival of Sound website here
including work by;
Pheobe riley Law
Jez riley French
Line Elkjær
Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin
Isabella Stevenson
Signe Liden
Espen Sommer Eide
Manfred Werder
Helen Frosi
Stephen Chase
Manja Ristić
Tomoko Hojo
Yifeat Ziv
lo wie
Carole Finer
Eleanor Cully
Iris Garrelfs
Annie Goh
Asha Sheshadri
Lucie Stepankova
Catherine Kontz
The PDF is also now part of the Walking as a Question conference, Greece
FM sound walk, radio broadcast of a new performance piece, a booklet (available as a free pdf here, including a link to a specially composed realisation of one of the 'scores for listening' from the series), in collaboration with Jez riley French
ìsland | fjorar - the crystal detector
FAMILY OPENING:
Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 12.00 in front of MGLC Ljubljana - location FM walk through Tivoli Park
EVENING OPENING: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 6 pm in front of MGLC Ljubljana - location FM walk through Tivoli Park
RADIO OPENING: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 8 pm on the 3rd program of Radio Slovenia - Ars program (with contributions from our friend Eliza Bozek)
More about performing FM walks at this link:
Me and Micaela Perrot-Barnaby are collaborating on;
THE VOICEMAIL PROJECT:
15 Artists will use your voicemail as a platform to share their work.
VOICE / TEXT / SOUND 
To take part or find out more info DM me or @micaela.pb and send us your number to view their work on your very own voicemail !
I've contributed to this project, raising funds to support organisations that educate / promote gender minorities within sound cultures
three images from the Tourist, Mado and mirror selfie series' are featured in the first issue of Times online publication from 87 Gallery. The issue is on the theme of the Heightened selfie.
"...I wanted to look behind the selfie as a format - and the location itself, how its borders are both actual and metaphorical. Also the role of the public and private space, how they can be performative, as is the selfie"
grid
as part of the open exhibition, feb - ? 2021, Baltic centre for Contemporary Art, currently accessible via a virtual tour on the Baltic website
I have a new piece 'ewer (soaks in)' from the 'herd' series included in the online exhibition 'Refracted Commentary' at Shipley Gallery, Gateshead.
The piece explores themes of regulation, normalisation, and separation within barriers between humans and animals with a focus on the farming industry of cattle. I was interested in the process of making with clay, and how the 'unfinished' state can shape our perception of an object
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a new sound piece for Spikersuppa Lydgalleri, Oslo, Norway - Jan-Feb 2021
amongst the references there are ones to borders;
between the liquid & the frozen
the solid and the porous state of walls along a cattle run
and between narrative and the shape of language as a sounding object.
Working on this piece, during a year where plans were constantly being shifted, created pockets of time that seemed to drift between the day-to-day and a suspended sense of progression. With ‘A layer of liquid water’ I attempt to explore the aesthetics of certain located sounds; the memories contained in recordings from earlier trips to Oslo and through others which reference ideas of the static and the transitory (restriction and movement). I have an interest in words as sound, with their meanings more fluid, and this became an important, refreshing element of the piece.
Lots of thanks to Jenny Berger Myhre and Line Elkjær for their readings of the texts.
i've provided the cover artwork for the latest issue of the free pdf arts zine (+ album of sound works) - verdure engraved. it's free / donate from the link below;
https://verdureengraved.bandcamp.com/album/2020-1
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un-transmitted data | interference of objects
Jez riley French | Pheobe riley Law
video essay
2020
20:00mins
presented at;
Alliances and Commonalities, University of the Arts, Stockholm, Sweden - October 2020
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installation - system gallery, Newcastle - September 2020
I have a sound piece; 'tape, stones, shells, snare, reeds' that is part of a major sound exhibition, Audiosphere, at the Museo Reina Sofia, Spain - from October 2020 to January 2021
https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/audiosphere
by myself & jez riley french
a simple thing for those who want to do it sometime in the coming weeks
score for listening - entice new normality
nb. this score will be used for a performance at GMEA's score event in France, June/July 2020
the score will also be part of the walking from scores event at gmea
http://www.gmea.net/evenement/walking-from-scores…
scores by Peter Ablinger, Doug Barrett, Elena Biserna, Blank Noise, George Brecht, Cornelius Cardew, Stephen Chase, Giuseppe Chiari, Seth Cluett, Philip Corner, Bill Dietz, David Dunn, Haytham El-Wardany, Esther Ferrer, Simone Forti, Francesco Gagliardi, Jerome Giller, Oliver Ginger, Anna Halprin, David Helbich, Dick Higgins, Christopher Hobbs, Jerome Joy, James Klopfleisch, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Takehisa Kosugi, Bob Lens, Ligia Lewis, Alvin Lucier, Walter Marchetti, Larry Miller, Tim Mitchell, Max Neuhaus, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Open City [Andrew Brown, Katie Doubleday and Simone Kenyon] & Emma Cocker, Nam June Paik, Michael Parsons, Ben Patterson, Pheobe riley Law & Jez Riley French, Paul Sharits, Hugh Shrapnel, Mark So, Standards, Nicolas Tardy, Davide Tidoni, Ultra-red, Wolf Vostell, Manfred Werder, Ben Vautier, La Monte Young.
i'll be doing a short residency at Steklenik Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia in March 2021, which will also include a live performance andan installation in collaboration with Jez riley French 'island | fjorar' featuring some of my text pieces 
Raquel Castro's latest documentary film, SOA, will premiere at IndieLisboa film festival - Aug-Sept 2020. Raquel filmed part of the documentary at the 'murmuration' gathering in 2018 and some of my work is featured
in collaboration with Jez riley French, some of my text pieces are included in a set of scores for listening, published in Ós - Icelandic Arts Journal, February 2020
I have some sound work on Borealis Festival radio throughout the festival & also during March online,
several of my recordings from Scotland and some extracts from the 'interference of objects' series of collaborations are featured in this radio programme for Art Licks Weekend 2019, which is now also available on mixcloud;
ravenspurn (4 channel version)
a process of interaction with chance and place
will be exhibited in the Armstrong Arches, Newcastle University - October 2019 as part of Walking Festival of Sound (Newcastle version)
mini-residency, vasternorrland, sweden - september 2019
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ravenspurn (4 channel version)
a process of interaction with chance and place
Walking Festival of Sound, Detroit Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden - September 2019
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from 'illusions of connectivity' (exhibition / performance, Denmark)
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'Tourist' (sound / video / performance) - Level One Gallery, Hamburg - May 2019
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I have multiple works included in this years Radiophrenia broadcast festival which will be available across Glasgow and at the Centre for Contemporary Art
May 2019
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I am included on the visibility blog, an open platform run by female_pressure, inspired by a statement by Bjork some years ago, aiming to raise the visibility of the diverse range of women working in all areas of the sound arts
http://femalepressure.tumblr.com/post/181917287715/pheobe-riley-law-artist-sound-artist#notes
residency in japan
(photo by Hajime Kato)
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still from performance, nara, japan - march 2018
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still from recent performance, newcastle (sound, text, movement)
'ceramic dissolves' - performance with Jez riley French at Made in Korea exhibition as part of the British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke, UK - September 2017
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still from PrL section of collaborative 16mm film at Allerdale Film Farm, August 2017. Soundtrack is composed from cut-up film stock sounds.
film stock cut-up soundtrack (extract).mp3
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I recently c-curated an edition of Framework radio alongside Jez riley French based on contributions from ourselves, Chris Watson & all the participants of the workshop we ran on Orford Ness. It can be streamed or downloaded here: http://www.frameworkradio.net/2017/07/609-2017-07-30/
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'koderjana'
collaboration: Natasa Kramberger (text) / Pheobe riley Law (photographs)
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I am taking part in a durational performance as part of a collaboration with artists Lucy & Jorge Orta for their 'Raft of the Medussa' installation at Humber Street Gallery, Hull, June 2017
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several recordings and an improvisation as part of this curated programme on the French websynradio station - June 2017
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installation at tyneside gallery, newcastle, may 2017
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my film'e4/139' has been selected for the Segnali film & performance festival in Perugia, Italy 2-6th May 2017
on the moor
video installation
collaboration with Micaela PB
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performance event: the mushroom band - culture lab, Newcastle University, 22nd Jan 2017
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'not much is a lot that can happen in fifteen minutes....its a matter of scale and position'
sound / video
Pheobe riley Law & Jez riley French
in response to the publication by Helen Shaddock - for the No Niceties exhibition - Newbridge Project, November 2016
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collaborative performance - Newcastle University, October 2016
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typewriter desire - series of performances - newcastle, september-october 2016
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forest manifesto
installation - Newcastle University - Sep / Oct 2016
projection, sound, tape, stereoscope, polaroids, manifesto, objects
Nordic Affect, included elements of a text based score I created in collaboration with Jez riley French in Halla's installation at Nordic Music Days, Reykjavik recently:
H e (a) r Soundscape connected to ecology, acoustics and embodiment; drawing on encounters and what happens in the connection. Performers are Carina Ehrenholm, Angela Rawlings, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir and Liv Kaastrup Vesterskov. Text score extracted from writings and digital works by Angela Rawlings (In Memory: Jökull*, Jöklar) as well as by Pauline Oliveros, R. Murray Schafer, David Suzuki, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Jez Riley French, Phoebe Riley Law, Bernhard Leitner, Heidi Fast and Roni Horn. H e (a) r was directed and composed by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir and mixed by Kent Olofsson at Inter Arts Center in Malmö, Sweden.
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'veer'
numbered limited edition (25 copies) 48 page saddle stitched book, uncoated cover, colour and b/w
SOLD OUT
comes with a download of realisation of the graphic score 'score for nissei theatre' by Embla Quickbeam, Catherine Kontz, Manja Ristic, Philip Thomas and Jez riley French
digital download & pdf available here
veer
installation - hull school of art & design 2016
objects, video, text, graphic score, sound
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text from 'veer' series 'compact | 118' as collaborative score with Jez riley French for the Fresh Yorkshire Aires commission, exhibition, book and performances at Bank Street Arts (Sheffield) & Munro House (Leeds), June 2016
http://bankstreetarts.com/events/fresh-yorkshire-aires/
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i've joined the re-con analogue synth ensemble - four sessions and then a performance at The Tetley in Leeds as part of the 'no quiet place' weekender
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desire lines' and 'dial' photozines / books issued - priced at £6 (UK) / £8 (rest of world)
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'moments # 1' (film) has been chosen to be part of the One Minute Film festival in Hull, November 2015
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my audio piece 'faxfleet - interactions' has been chosen to open the latest Kinokophone audio screening at the British Library, London, UK on May 27th
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