sound and listening

——recent projects ——

quiet space

composer - binaural soundscape

A visual art and sound installation in collaboration with artist Kirsty Barlow.

The BEYOND Conference Quiet Space is a collaborative design by Barlow and Sara Wolff. Their shared vision is to create spaces that promote sensory calm and inclusion through thoughtful design and sound – reducing overwhelm for individuals who identify as neurodiverse.

This installation takes inspiration from Platt Fields Market Garden, a community hub and working market garden located in Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield. The fabric banners reflect the soft tones and textures of the garden’s flowers, while the accompanying binaural soundscape features field recordings captured within the garden itself, creates an immersive sensory experience.

The installation encourages reflection on how thoughtfully designed environments can support well-being, sensory calm and a sense of community.

Person lying on a couch with headphones, eyes closed, surrounded by purple and pink lighting.
Packaging box for a Head Tracker 1 device, showing a picture of the device and specifications on a white label, placed on an orange textured fabric background.
Person crouching on grass in a park, wearing headphones and a black jacket, using audio recording equipment on a tripod, with a backpack nearby, surrounded by trees and fallen autumn leaves.
An exhibition setup with colored fabric screens illuminated by purple and orange lighting, and an informational sign with a QR code next to the display.
Map showing Wavertree Town Hall, Picton Clock, The Rose Garden, Love Wavertree Community Shop, Occasions Florist, Fozia's, Wavertree Library, and child wall along High Street in Wavertree, Liverpool.

picton play soundwalk

composer and producer


A geo-located soundwalk as part of the end of Metal Culture’s Picton Play Project.

Through creative workshops with local Wavertree community groups, participants were invited to write about a particular place in Wavertree that means something to them. Using original music, interactive sounds, field recordings and voicenotes from the neighbourhood, I made an interactive soundwalk can be explored in the Echoes app.
Read more here

imagining life underground with ellie towers

Sound artist and creative producer

A clay workshops for young families in Crosby Library, produced by At The Library.

The workshop was inspired by a sound piece by DARCH created for Liverpool Biennial. Participants were invited to make their own underground clay creatures using shiny pieces of insects they could find inside of a pile of soil on the floor. As their hands dug around, they also discovered the reverberant and strange echoes that the soil made. 

A woman wearing headphones and a scarf standing in front of a crowd at the Goodison Park stadium entrance. Behind her, a large statue of a football player and the stadium sign that reads 'GROUNDS' are visible.
Person holding an audio recorder pointing at a street with cars, pedestrians, and a large mural of a football player on a blue background. Goodison Park.

sounds of goodison park

An archive of the neighbourhood sounds of the stadium in the months leading up to its closure. 

I’ve recorded the sounds of the streets during the final six matches of the season, to document the sounds of the neighbourhood, ahead of the drastic change for businesses and locals. This will be presented as a sound map, as well as a sound installation. 

ambisonic microphone build

I’m currently building a DIY ambisonic microphone together with sound artist Mali Draper

Multiple black wires with green circular connectors spread on a purple cutting mat with measurement grid. Nearby are scissors, a ruler, a glass bottle, a yellow utility knife, and a gray cord.
A black cable coiled on a purple cutting mat, connected to a DIY microphone with a spherical mesh structure, also on the mat, with various tools and objects in the background.
A person holding a small spherical DIY microphone with various blue and red components, surrounded by tools and workspace items on a purple cutting mat.

sounding the past

soundwalk facilitated with fiona brehony


Along the River Gout, for New Mills Festival in September 2025 to explore how sound connects memory and place while listening for traces of the area’s industrial past.

View through an opening in a stone wall showing a person and a child standing near a river, with a bridge and lush green trees in the background on a cloudy day.
A hand-drawn map titled 'Liquid History Soundwalk' shows the flow of the River Sett with landmarks like Union Bridge, Millennium Bridge, and the hydro power turbine at Archie. It includes annotations about sounds to listen for, such as footsteps, breath, and industrial noises, and notes on soundscape changes.
Person sitting outdoors at night, writing in a notebook with a pen, near a body of water, wearing a black and blue jacket, with a ring on their left hand.

field recording and listening workshop - FACT Liverpool

facilitator, 2025

A large gallery wall with a curtain featuring an art installation of a person pointing with their right arm, seen from the back, with other gallery visitors sitting on the floor in front of the wall.
Table with books about sound, nature, and history, along with natural objects like a dry branch, a pinecone, and two stones, in a room with headsets hanging on the side.
Woman giving a presentation on working with landscape using a projector in a cozy room with a light blue wall, a sofa, houseplants, and a round table with magazines.
Group of people standing and walking on sandy dunes with green grass, under a blue sky, some reading or using recording devices, in a natural outdoor setting.

Crosby Beach (Alex Marcus Davies)

an inquest concerning teeth soundwalk

lead artist

Soundwalk on Crosby Beach for Liverpool Independent Biennial 2025, commissioned by The Royal Standard. Read more here

A group of people walking in a line along a grassy and sandy coastal area with houses visible in the background.
Two women on a sandy beach, one holding a microphone and the other wearing headphones, recording a conversation. In the background, there are dunes and two people standing and walking.

sound pals

I run a soundwalk collective, Sound Pals, exploring the neighbourhood sounds of Liverpool through active listening. With this project, in addition to testing different listening techniques and theories, I want to explore how active listening can build appreciation for the green spaces close to home, and build connections between people in the local community.  Follow on Instagram and message to join the Whatsapp community.

facilitator

People walking on a forest trail surrounded by trees and bushes, some wearing backpacks and headphones, in daytime.
Image by @saltinmyshoe

Princes Park (@saltinmyshoe)

March 2025

On our first soundwalk we walked in a loop around Otterspool Park in Liverpool.

The group walked for about an hour and a half, and afterwards we had a coffee and spoke about the things we heard.We spoke about how challenging sometimes it can be to get our ears tuned in to active listening and how nice it was to listen in silence together with others. The Otterspool soundscape featured the sounds of spring birdsong, wind through the leaves and people jogging, all against the backdrop of the very noisy Aigburth Road. Although at some points during the walk you could barely hear the traffic!

I made a soundmap for each person on the walk, mapping out the route, our stopping points and the landscape around it. I also created a list of writing prompts, inspired by some of Hildegard Westerkamp’s writings on soundwalks.

A hand-drawn map of a soundwalk route at Sefton Park on June 15. The route starts at a corner point, passes through a bandstand, stepping rocks, a boating lake, a field, and a forest path, and ends back at the start, passing a palm house and a river.
A group of people standing outdoors in a park with bare trees and an overcast sky, holding papers, with a sign that reads 'The Reader'. Next to the photo is a hand-drawn map labeled 'Route Rimrose Valley, May 2025', showing a trail with various points of interest including tunnels, fields, a pyramid, a kestrel tree, reeds, a forest, and roads.
A hand-drawn map of a walking route through a park with numbered points, including a skate park, old café, tunnel, open field, and wooded area, with handwritten notes and listening prompts.