Lovely Weather residency project

Blowing With Ghosts

An extract from Locked in by Jean-Philippe Renoult (with DinahBird, Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington) - 2008 We used a very simple sonar system consisting of speakers facing out from the boat, megaphones, battery run electronic instruments, a harmonica, our voices and microphones that picked up the sonic reflections from the concrete walls of the locks.

Deep Down and Under

An extract from "Deep Down and Under" a 28 minute contemplative audio work that plays with the natural resonances of underground spaces by Jean-Philippe Renoult for the Radia Network. (2008)

The Music Box

A short piece made for audio walk 'Sound Drop' first presented for the la Nuit Blanche, Paris in 2005. It features a series of commissioned audio works by artists who responded to the architecture, people and sounds of the area. Listeners hear the pieces through a museum audio guide headset. They proceed through the route in the order of their choosing and listen as the environmental background mixes in and out of the sonic visions of the artists. Sound Drop has since been reshaped in various formats and integrated into a larger urban audiowalk project. It has been presented at the following events: Urban Strolls at the Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris - 2006), Sous La Plage Festival (Paris - 2006), Paris Quartier d’Eté Festival (2007), Sibiu-Luxembourg European Capitals of Culture (2007), CitySonics (Mons 2008, Belgium). As the location shifts the listener is invited to rediscover their town through the sounds and identity of another time, city and place. Sound Drop 05 was curated by Jean-Philippe Renoult and is produced by the MU Collective. http://www.sound-drop.org/

When Silence Sings (2008)

An extract from this composed soundscape commissioned by BBC Radio Three for their experimental feature strand, Between The Ears.

Public Works (2007-9)

An extract from Natures Construites. Image : Connolly/Cleary. Sound: Bird & Renoult "The City is a force of nature in its own right, constantly reshaping and reinventing itself, struggling to shake off a century old skin of concrete, iron and asphalt that it has outgrown. The transformation of the Boulevard Barbès is one of the waves of works sweeping the north of Paris, urban regeneration sparked by a growing sensitivity to the environment. There are five Natures in Construction: EarthWorks: machines pierce and tear the earth; TarWorks: hot bitumen; StoneWorks: the weight and hardness of masonry; WoodWorks: urban trees are shorn; PublicWorks; layers of urban life printed on the pavement."

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