Sharing Event - Simon Bradley - Magnet Opus

You are invited to join artist Simon Bradley for Magnet Opus, a sharing event presenting work in progress.

Simon Bradley is a transdisciplinary artist working with walking-based sound art, performance and installation using a variety of media including voice, oral history, field recordings and locative/GPS approaches. Recently, he has been focusing on natural data sources, supported by an Arts Council Develop Your Creative Practice (DYCP) Award.

Over the past year or so, he has been looking into ways in which the silent, invisible workings of geomagnetism can be brought into our awareness using sound as primary conduit. His current work follows on from a GPS-based pilot project 'The Barrow Alignment' (Full of Noises, 2024), created in collaboration with sound artist Jonathan Lindh.

Magnet Opus is gradually emerging from his experimental investigation into ambisonics and geomagnetics, developing ways of arranging sound spatially for performance and installation based on global and local geomagnetic data.

Simon will introduce some of the basic concepts and practices behind geomagnetism and the multi-channel audio of ambisonics discussing his approaches towards the manipulation of raw data within composition and performance. He will present an exploratory piece using his ambisonic field recordings from the Eskdalemuir Observatory combined with data provided by the British Geological Survey. The session will conclude with a semi-structured collaborative improvised performance working with prepared and live soundings, followed by a Q&A session with the artist.

Schedule:

15:00 for 15:30 start. Tickets: £3 concession.

Images:

Simon Bradley