Stevie Jones

Stevie Jones

Porous and Permable 2022 (3:15)

Porous and Permeable is a field recording composition, instrumentalising the porosity of materials both naturally occurring (limestone, soil) and constructed (synthetic rubber, neoprene) alongside the environments and spaces that they inhabit and define.
Porosity can be seen as closely related to permeability and this piece takes Donna Haraway’s ‘permeable boundaries’ between the natural and technological as a guiding concept, combining processed and untreated natural recordings as well as human touch and gesture mapped to parameters within the digital realm.
This manipulation has been organised through improvisations using an interactive music system – utilising MAX MSP and tactile microcontrollers – introducing multiple further layers of non-linearity to the binary stream, complicating the idea of digitalised rigidity.
Distinctions between performance and composition are blurred, as are those between coding, programming, engineering and musicianship. This ambiguity of roles opens spaces within the practice, introducing a fluidity that could be considered a form of porosity within the compositional approach itself.
Also interpreting porosity as density, this short form composition layers detailed audio in a compact, stratified montage.

about Stevie:

Stevie Jones is a Glasgow based sound designer, composer, musician and engineer. From a background in theatre sound design/production and Glasgow’s exploratory, DIY music scene he developed a singular voice fronting his collective Sound of Yell - combining avant folk, post rock and modern composition while pairing improvisatory elements with taut composition. He has collaborated across a wide range of contexts including experimental dance, artists working with moving image, site specific performance, structured improvisation and immersive ambisonic installation at festivals such as Sonica, E.I.F and Counterflows. His compositions have been released on Chemikal Underground and Café OTO’s Takuroku imprint and he has performed internationally in over 30 countries, with a variety of groups including Arab Strap, Alasdair Roberts Trio and with Isobel Campbell and Mark LaneganRecent work has marked a shift towards experimental radio art and field recording composition with an interest in subverting hierarchies, ambiguity and the hidden and inaccessible. This has been broadcast on Late Junction, Freak Zone, Radiophrenia, Resonance FM, Wave Farm and Borealis. Examples of this emerging practice have also been shared at GLEAM, ARCadia and Jupiter Rising festivals and with the local sonic arts community at Lights Out Listening Group.

Porous and Permable 2022 (3:15)

Porous and Permeable is a field recording composition, instrumentalising the porosity of materials both naturally occurring (limestone, soil) and constructed (synthetic rubber, neoprene) alongside the environments and spaces that they inhabit and define.
Porosity can be seen as closely related to permeability and this piece takes Donna Haraway’s ‘permeable boundaries’ between the natural and technological as a guiding concept, combining processed and untreated natural recordings as well as human touch and gesture mapped to parameters within the digital realm.
This manipulation has been organised through improvisations using an interactive music system – utilising MAX MSP and tactile microcontrollers – introducing multiple further layers of non-linearity to the binary stream, complicating the idea of digitalised rigidity.

Distinctions between performance and composition are blurred, as are those between coding, programming, engineering and musicianship. This ambiguity of roles opens spaces within the practice, introducing a fluidity that could be considered a form of porosity within the compositional approach itself.

Also interpreting porosity as density, this short form composition layers detailed audio in a compact, stratified montage.

about Stevie:

Stevie Jones is a Glasgow based sound designer, composer, musician and engineer. From a background in theatre sound design/production and Glasgow’s exploratory, DIY music scene he developed a singular voice fronting his collective Sound of Yell - combining avant folk, post rock and modern composition while pairing improvisatory elements with taut composition. He has collaborated across a wide range of contexts including experimental dance, artists working with moving image, site specific performance, structured improvisation and immersive ambisonic installation at festivals such as Sonica, E.I.F and Counterflows. His compositions have been released on Chemikal Underground and Café OTO’s Takuroku imprint and he has performed internationally in over 30 countries, with a variety of groups including Arab Strap, Alasdair Roberts Trio and with Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan.
Recent work has marked a shift towards experimental radio art and field recording composition with an interest in subverting hierarchies, ambiguity and the hidden and inaccessible. This has been broadcast on Late Junction, Freak Zone, Radiophrenia, Resonance FM, Wave Farm and Borealis. Examples of this emerging practice have also been shared at GLEAM, ARCadia and Jupiter Rising festivals and with the local sonic arts community at Lights Out Listening Group.

Porous and Permable 2022 (3:15)

Porous and Permeable is a field recording composition, instrumentalising the porosity of materials both naturally occurring (limestone, soil) and constructed (synthetic rubber, neoprene) alongside the environments and spaces that they inhabit and define.
Porosity can be seen as closely related to permeability and this piece takes Donna Haraway’s ‘permeable boundaries’ between the natural and technological as a guiding concept, combining processed and untreated natural recordings as well as human touch and gesture mapped to parameters within the digital realm.
This manipulation has been organised through improvisations using an interactive music system – utilising MAX MSP and tactile microcontrollers – introducing multiple further layers of non-linearity to the binary stream, complicating the idea of digitalised rigidity.

Distinctions between performance and composition are blurred, as are those between coding, programming, engineering and musicianship. This ambiguity of roles opens spaces within the practice, introducing a fluidity that could be considered a form of porosity within the compositional approach itself.

Also interpreting porosity as density, this short form composition layers detailed audio in a compact, stratified montage.

about Stevie:

Stevie Jones is a Glasgow based sound designer, composer, musician and engineer. From a background in theatre sound design/production and Glasgow’s exploratory, DIY music scene he developed a singular voice fronting his collective Sound of Yell - combining avant folk, post rock and modern composition while pairing improvisatory elements with taut composition. He has collaborated across a wide range of contexts including experimental dance, artists working with moving image, site specific performance, structured improvisation and immersive ambisonic installation at festivals such as Sonica, E.I.F and Counterflows. His compositions have been released on Chemikal Underground and Café OTO’s Takuroku imprint and he has performed internationally in over 30 countries, with a variety of groups including Arab Strap, Alasdair Roberts Trio and with Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan.
Recent work has marked a shift towards experimental radio art and field recording composition with an interest in subverting hierarchies, ambiguity and the hidden and inaccessible. This has been broadcast on Late Junction, Freak Zone, Radiophrenia, Resonance FM, Wave Farm and Borealis. Examples of this emerging practice have also been shared at GLEAM, ARCadia and Jupiter Rising festivals and with the local sonic arts community at Lights Out Listening Group.