Within Walls is a sonic and artistic exploration into the rooms that encapsulate my daily life. The project aims to reframe my relationship with these environments by adopting a metaphorical “third eye” perspective—imagining what it might mean to inhabit the walls themselves. I created a 5 track EP and hand-bound book to reflect these themes. Each track is composed of field recordings distorted through a range of auditory processing techniques such as utilising samplers, loop pedals, synths, exciter speakers etc to create a sonic landscape that sounds as if it can be heard through the wall, reflecting both the atmosphere of each room and my emotional engagement with them.  Accompanying the EP are liminal drawings of wall cavities and fixtures, visually highlighting the project’s engagement with interior space and subjective perception.

Raw is primarily based upon the collaborative works created by partners – composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham and their experiments based in chance and unpredictability. My aim within this project was to see how audio and dance communicate with one another. The audio was created using found footage of either Cunningham or Cage and then distorted through data-bending creating fragmented and distorted sound that was then collaged together. The choreography was improvised using the ancient Chinese divination text, the I-Ching, as a source of inspiration for each routine, a technique often utilised by Cage.