Prox, General Practice, Lincoln 2019

Prox began as a depository for a body of sound works I produced that I struggled to put into integrate into any cohesive format. I wanted to explore ways of exhibiting this work without the linear restrictions of convetional music releases, and less prescriptive than simply installing some loudspeakers in a space. I had experimented countless times with induction pickups on location recordings and wanted to explore the potential for inductive transmission and reception and how this could be used to present work in space. The Prox installation consisted of eight recordings sent to eight inductive coils embedded into the fabric of gP gallery. I converted a set of headphones to to receive inductive signals which allowed listeners to explore the space and find, mix, and spend time with the sounds. Upon entering the gallery the room was empty (apart from a stool and a ladder to reach coils hidden at heights) as I wanted to give the listener control of what they could and couldn’t listen to, and it was important to use the quite space as a point of return to put emphasize on the listeners right to autonomy.