Simon Whetham

About Simon Whetham

Simon Whetham is a British sound artist and performer. In the past eight years to develop work with 4 x 4 audio recordings as raw material, with the default music composition. This is most often about the sounds of the environment (whether natural or industrial), which captures such methods and techniques to achieve confidentiality of sound phenomena. With the secession of the sound from its natural resources and its (often considerable) intensifying, with the sound of the abstracts – is still known to us, but it is already part of another than normal of the world. Simon Whetham presents the last time his work with sound in the form of performances or sound installation where the space itself and the objects in it become musical instruments. Simon Whetham, he published a large number of recordings through the labels Touch Music, Cronica, Dragon's Eye, Monochrome Vision and Entr ' acte; He collaborated with musicians, painters, poets, dancers, videoartisty; led workshops and workshops of the listening field audio recording in the UK, Estonia, Colombia, Chile and Australia, and won a number of awards, particularly for the project "Active Crossover" involving sound installation, performance, cooperation with local artists and sound workshops. – Translated by Automatic service