ZOЁ IRVINE (UK)

Have you noticed that there are fragments of audiotape flapping in the wind? Strands can be found all over the world, in gutters, snagged on trees, wherever tape players have ventured it seems they have chewed, snarled and spat too. These fragments create a shifting inaudible soundscape. Some of the strands have traveled far, they are worn and battered but can be re-spooled, and listened to.

Zoë Irvine is an award-winning sound artist living and working in Scotland. Her output includes installations, live performances, radio art, and one-off events such as the phenomenal Dial-a-Diva project in 2005, which was the subject of a Creative Scotland Award. Zoë began research into voice and audio art publication as a research resident at DJCAD in 1999. Publications from this period of research are co-published by Pocketbooks / Aeolus and include works by William Furlong, Hamish Fulton, Simon Patterson and Irvine herself. Current research investigates older recording and broadcasting technologies, the magnetic tape and the telephone in particular. Other current areas of investigation and practice are documentary, narrative and storytelling using sound as the primary medium.

http://www.imaging.dundee.ac.uk/people/zoe/Index.htm
http://www.magneticmigration.net
http://www.vibrofiles.com
http://www.dialadiva.net

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