After the guest lecture with Jez Riley French, I felt inspired to attempt something similar and create a sound piece based on listening to what we miss in every day life, within our personal environment. Before I began I felt that I should do more research on Jez Riley French and his work.

French has done a lot work within the Sound Art industry including photography, photographic scores, film, and various sound installations. He also does lectures and workshops throughout the year. He has published books, released CDs and builds his own microphones which he sells.  His recent work includes commissions for Tate Modern from the UK, Artisphere in the USA and for organisations throughout Italy, Spain, Iceland, and Japan.

Over the last few years he has been working on recordings of surfaces and spaces, both natural and man made. French is often associated with developing extended recording techniques, including the recording of structural vibrations via contact microphones recording ultra and infra-sonics. His most recent work involves recording dolomites dissolving, ants eating fallen fruit, the Tate Modern building itself vibrating, the infrasound of domestic spaces around the world, glaciers melting (global warming is real) in Iceland, and tonal resonances of natural and human objects in landscapes around the world.

His current works include:

• ‘Audible silence’ – Recordings of empty architectural spaces and structural vibrations.
• ‘Instamatic’ & ‘Emplacment’ – Single point field recordings.
• ‘Teleferica’ – Documentation of fascinating structures across Italy.
• ‘Movere’ – A series of pieces composed of field recordings, both passive and involving interactions with spaces and objects.
• ‘Adagios’ – Re-scoring of musical fragments as durational works, recorded using the building structures as filters.
• ‘Dissolves’ – Hydrophone recordings exploring the hidden sonic structures of minerals.
• ‘Scores for Listening’ – Photographic scores for listening, with visual cues for listening.