I have been creatively engaged with the Afon Dulais river that flows close to my home since 2006; a practice of listening to the river’s shifting seasonal frequencies whilst attempting to materialise these in sound. Immersing myself physically within the river I use the machinic sensitivity of a Fender Stratocaster to allow places of eddy, surface movement and interference in the river’s body to express themselves through the guitar’s strings. I am interested in what I am able to Read More
This score is written as part of soft matter, an emerging research project that explores a choreographic territory of touch; its ambiguities, sensate world and field of afterglow. (you may close your eyes, or open them at any time during the process of the score)
In 2009 i developed PINGS with sound artist Barnaby Oliver, a year long process of live performance exchange from our respective local rivers in west Wales and Melbourne, Australia. Approaching the river as an unbroken body of water through which we corresponded weekly, we used the web as an interface for public engagement. We were supported by an Artsadmin bursary and at the end of the process we met in person to perform together in Cardiff Read More
Simon Whitehead is a movement artist living with his family in rural west Wales. His practice is improvisatory, in response to the circumstances he finds himself in he makes work that moves in correspondence with land, materials and beings. He begins with, and re-turns to the motile materiality of the body and its agency amongst an assemblage of other forces, flows and matter. He is a maker that moves and has been practicing this relationally-focussed work for Read More