Martin Franklin is a digital artist & musician, curator, online broadcaster and founder of the Sound:Space sound art symposium.
His current work combines sound with other media in the digital domain, often resulting in spatial installation pieces.
As solo artist and former leader of Ambient trio, TUU, his many recorded works have been released around the Globe. Performances and exhibitions have included Inpact Festival, Estonia, Pixelpops, WOMAD, Cybersonica, ICA London and Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast.
I recalled an old habit today of listening to mixes of my own music from other rooms. It’s hard to explain the attraction, but maybe it’s something to do with the sounds having a transporting, ambient quality to them which is made more pronounced when given a sense of perspective.
Being close to silent spaces, with [...]
Doing well at blocking my internal audio censors at the moment, and just getting on with it. Unexpected drone manipulations from last night created through what’s become a standard process of processing, sampling, looping and re-processing the original audio source material until something interesting comes out.
Wonder if there’s a tenuous parallel there with the Burroughs/Gysin [...]
Probably my last individual Gene Pool post before I won’t be able to keep up!
Back in July, I went down to Bristol to meet up with artists, Simon Whetham and Duncan Speakman and Clare Reddington at PM Studio. Nailing lots of things in one go, I booked Simon for a performance, Duncan for a weekend [...]
The Gene Pool continues it’s radio season on Soundart Radio 102.5FM (www.soundartradio.org.uk) from 8th September. I’ll be putting together a series of weekly shows, airing on Wednesdays 7pm on 102.5FM and live web stream. I should be uploading the episodes to the podcast more frequently now too, as we’ve turned around from the shows being [...]
Just back from this year’s holiday to the beautiful Greek island of Corfu. This time we stayed on the North West coast, in a town called San Stefanos. On the Ionian Sea side of the island, the horizon is haunted by the silhouettes of the islands of Nisos Mathraki and Nisida Kravia, one inhabited but [...]
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