A sound art exhibition / event which examined how artists from a range of disciplines worked with the medium of sound. It was the inaugural event at a new arts centre in High Wycombe (see Wycombe Awakes)

The exhibition included music from Martin Creed (top left) sound poetry from Jaap Blonk (top right), Other artists included:

Media artists Signal To Noise (below left) who used recently gathered audio from a local aural history group transferred it on to cassette tape which was adhered to the walls of the building and listened to via tape heads attached to gloves.

Visual artist Mark Langley (below right) whose work, comprised of a dice with a single dot on every side moving in a speaker, whose noise was picked up my a microphone which in turn caused the speaker to vibrate, created a conceptual paradox that is both logical and predictable in equal measure.

Contemporary musicians MA_DUO placed a grid on the floor, which became an empty musical score. Walking through it, either passively or actively, the public’s actions were read by the musicians to create an unpredictable stream of live music.

Patrick White collated his entire music collection on to two sides of an vinyl record, examining the difference between abundance and absence of information at the extremes.

Ellis Sharpe’s work was simply a pair of headphones hanging on the wall. Sharpe, preoccupied by the free will debate, dictated the listeners response to fictitious painting, raising questions about our freedom of choice.

Matt Hulse collaborated with us to create an interactive version of his ‘Audible Picture Show’ - a set of audio works for cinema. Here audience members were encouraged to participate in one of the films by listening to each other eat popcorn.

Sound Artist Iain Chambers created a piece of music composed from the sounds of the installations featured within the exhibition. It was recorded on to quarter inch tape, cut up and distributed to the audience as a visual reminder of an audio event.

Sculptor and musician Michael Fairfax played improvised music on home made instruments created from old High Wycombe furniture

Wycombe Listening