Simon Whitehead
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Simon’s 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.
movement artist & PhD Researcher - Department of Theatre Studies, University of Glasgow- AHRC via SGSAH
Dulais:
I have been engaged in an unfolding processual relationship with the Afon Dulais river that flows close to my home in west Wales 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 hear and feel in this diffractive, co-generated field and I make binaural recordings that serve as glimpses of this process.
These tracks also include GOODWARE 1, a studio practice of working with found crockery shards from the river, balancing these materials on the body of the guitar as it moves between feedback states, I leave the assemblage to ‘play out’.
(Recordings are live and untreated)