pheoberileylaw

recent / forthcoming

residency - Paradise Air, Japan - October 2023

performance with Jez riley French - Matsudo Science Art Festival, Japan - October 2023

performance with Jez riley French & Toshi Nakamura - Permian, Tokyo, Japan - October 2023

moss/water/bell - Crossovers Collective, London 2023

faulty borders / communicut / performance - APT Gallery, London June 2023

murmuration field trip / workshop - Scotland, June 2023

communicut, faulty borders & performance - APT gallery, London - June 2023

machine equities - Fabrica, Italy, Feb 2023

Fabrica residency - italy, 2022

oh o salinity + the crystal detector (with Jez riley French) - Burning Man Festival - Aug / Sept 2022

communicut - for the Musicity platform - online from July 2022

a layer of liquid water - Difvuse, London - Aug 2022

oh o salinity - Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK - April / June 2022 + Hari ArtSpace, Hull - June - July 2022 + Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle - June - July 2022

salt // salt pan // salt tax // smuggling - North East Emerging Artist prize exhibition - Delaval Hall, Northumbria - May / June 2022

salinity (in fall) - Hancock Museum, Newcastle - May / June 2022

Making Tracks residency (cove park) & national tour - oct / sept 2021

Herd - Newcastle Uni (delayed degree show) - June 2021

text (pdf) + performance - steklenik, Ljubljana, Slovenia - 2021

Herd - Grid - Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK - Feb-April 2021

a layer of liquid water - sound piece for Spikersuppa Lydgalleri, Oslo - Jan-Feb 2021

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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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.

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

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

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:

https://bit.ly/3rv7nkr

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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.

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.

'climate symphony' by Leah Borromeo, Jamie Perera and Katharine Round gets its premiere at CPH: DOX, with the Danish chamber Orchestra & field recordings by myself & Jez riley French

'The Climate Symphony was developed in our own CPH:LAB and has its premiere in an audiovisual live concert with musicians from the Danish Chamber Orchestra, where the audience will experience humanity's influence on Earth over 12,000 years. From evolution to revolution, from survival to progress, wealth and war. The issues affecting our climate are tonight represented by the orchestra's instruments in an interplay with the voices from nature's many habitats. In the meantime, a collage of archive footage and images is projected, which make up fragments of our memory and the visual detritus of human history.

https://en.cphdox.dk/programme/climate-symphony?fbclid=IwAR1n2-zjAGt31inksq4Qs7g9xJ5tPFIR9-N4P-keKxAQaw60bcHIBQqKtco

three soundworks for 'Benjamin', Radio Papesse tram shelter transmission project, Florence, Italy - October 2019

Benjamin. Sounds from the tramway , a sound art festival that will occupy the shelters of the Florentine urban tram, from 10 to 13 October 2019 .

Waiting for the next tram - between one service announcement and another - the travelers - urban commuters, residents and visitors - will become public: surprise, participation, interaction, dialogue, disorientation, fun , are the goals that Radio Papesse will try to achieve with a schedule of audio works - selected via Open Call - that talk about travel and waiting. The goal is to transport travelers into an unsettling, surprising elsewhere , to live - even for a few seconds - the experience of places, real or imaginary, far away, contrasting with what they see from the tram stop.

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pleased to announce that Burberry have commissioned a soundtrack / sound installation for their 'Here we are' exhibition of British photography as part of London Fashion Week, with the exhibition from Sept 18th - Oct 1st at the Old Sessions House, London 2017. The piece will feature recordings from around the UK by Jez riley French & one of my soundwalk recordings from this summer.

https://uk.burberry.com/london-fashion-week/september-show-2017/the-exhibition/

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https://uk.burberry.com/london-fashion-week/september-show-2017/the-exhibition/

film stock cut-up soundtrack (extract).mp3

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.

http://www.nordicmusicdays.org/nordic-affect

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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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