Jez riley French is a listener, recordist, artist and composer living in East Yorkshire, England. In this episode, host Josh Thorpe and Jez riley French discuss French’s extraordinary compositions made with recordings made of soil, tension cables, buildings, and the earth itself.
We talk about the complicated history of sound recording and archiving as type of collection and how the practice changes if you foreground listening. We discuss microphones, intuition, travel, ‘sound blokes’, and other things.
Artist Bio
Jez riley French
Jez riley French is well-known in the UK and internationally for his performances, exhibitions, installations lectures and workshops at venues such as the Tate Modern and the Museum of contemporary Art Tokyo, and. Every year he runs, with his daughter Phoebe riley Law, a field recording retreat in Scotland, where participants learn to make recordings and collaborate on sound projects. He also develops and builds specialist microphones curates the ‘engraved glass’ record label. As you’ll hear, Jez uses extended recording techniques that allow us to hear the sounds made in soil, by the vibrations of buildings, and even the very rotation of Earth itself. Listen to more on the Engraved Glass Bandcamp.