Global Sonic Culture
Sound Arts Visiting Practitioner Lecture Series – 21st April – Fari Bradley / Hannah Kemp-Welch
Fari Bradley-PhD Student
Fari Bradley is a sound artist, composer and arts-broadcaster who works with listening, language and location to question our sense of self and our place within society and the environment. Bradley’s practice spans performance, broadcast, installation and sculpture, involving experimental sound and music, and exercises in modes of listening and communication.
Originally from Iran, this London-based artist creates sculptural works using found objects, textiles and electronics. Her live performances engage with architecture, public space and history and often reflect her training in Indian Classical music. Bradley’s research-based practice extends into collaboration, as part of noise-improv quartet Oscillatorial Binnage, and sound-art duo Bradley-Weaver. She is a recipient of an AHRC TECHNE award.
I can hear a lot of repetition of robotics human voices, field recordings of car noises, sonic noise, feeling like the sound of futurism and a little bit cyberpunk.
Hannah Kemp-Welch is a sound artist with a socially-engaged practice. She produces audio works with community groups for installation and broadcast, using voices, field recordings and found sounds. She also delivers workshops, makes zines and builds basic radios, aiming to open out sonic practices and technologies for all. Hannah is a member of feminist radio art group Shortwave Collective and arts cooperative Soundcamp.
Hannah has exhibited at Art Gene, Furtherfield, John Hansard Gallery, Kettle’s Yard, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Nottingham Contemporary, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. She has also shown work internationally at Chinretsukan Gallery (Tokyo), FILE festival (São Paulo), Sound Reasons Festival (New Delhi) and TENT (Rotterdam).
We are just animals, humans and machines getting on together in specific lifeworlds
A site specific, interactive sound work creating moments of connection between strangers of all species by Hannah Kemp-Welch and Lisa Hall. This work can be accessed using a mobile & headphones in Finsbury Park during May and August 2021. Scan the QR code on Furtherfield’s gallery to begin the work, our compass will launch and guide you on new pathways. Offsite visitors can access a simulated version of the work via the website using a mobile device. Commissioned by RCA’s Curating Collective Breath Mark and Furtherfield Gallery, this work is part of the People’s Park Plinth – a project that turns the whole of the park into a platform for public digital artworks and asks you to pick the one you want to commission for further development, in a public vote in August 2021. For the People’s Park Plinth ‘We are just ….’ shares one pathway ‘Close to the ground’ to explore. If this work is selected in the public vote, further pathways and interactivity will be developed. The work features interviews with volunteers at Edible Landscapes, a forest gardening group based onsite at Finsbury Park: David Berrie, Imogen Simmonds, Jo Homan, Juiliette Ezavin and Theo Betts. Technical development by Studio Hyte, a South London-based design studio.
I really liked the project she made ‘We are just animals, humans and machines getting on together in specific lifeworlds’. It was an audio visual project and combined ideas from interactive design to sound art. I love the sound she recorded naturally form birds, footsteps, wind and underground water. I love the natural echo and reverb–“the sound of space” she displayed and the alive heart beats.