Stevie Jones
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Stevie Jones works in sound and music, collaborating extensively across a range of disciplines. As a theatre sound designer, composer and production engineer he has worked with Grid Iron, National Theatre of Scotland, Traverse, E.I.F and Scottish Dance Theatre. Film credits include And Under That, Where You’re Meant To Be, Dummy Jim and A Blemished Code. As a musician, he tours internationally with Arab Strap, and has done so with Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Alasdair Roberts and his own projects: Sound of Yell and El Hombre Trajeado. Recent recorded output includes releases on Chemikal Underground and Café OTO’s Takuroku. Stevie has performed at Sonica and Counterflows and is part of a team that runs and curates experimental radio festival Radiophrenia.
Transducers
This piece considers the links between sustainable energy and the act of creative listening through processes of transduction, such as those in dynamos, microphones and the inner ear.
The field recording composition attempts to narrow the gap between the production and utilisation of energy, in an exploratory and experimental documentation of performative and improvisatory listening. This took place at 3 sustainable power plants – Whitelee Wind Farm, Inveruglas Hydroelectric Station and a wall of solar panels at the foot of Dumgoyne.
Using electromagnetic sensors, hydrophones and contact mics, Transducers taps into the ostensibly inaudible sonic workings of the locations. These are blended with the airborne, reimagining the sites as instruments themselves and locating sustainable energy production as a catalyst for creative and innovative practice.