John Levack Drever
Play Radio
Listen to John Levack Drever Radio,
featuring artists like Simon Roy, the bartleby project, Zz Brr, Jgrzinich and more…
-
Search on Spotify
Yes, it scrobbles! Learn more
8,544 plays (5,581 listeners)
Drever’s expansive practice represents a cathexis into: human utterance; the minutiae of everyday soundscapes; residual noise; the intersection of acoustic horizon and acoustic arena; the genealogy of phonographic atmos and SFX; (un)natural histories; the gap between documentary and the field; the built environment, prevailing ambiance and pedestrian deportment; intuitions of silence and noise; overhearings, mishearings and acoustic perturbations, etc.
– such engagement naturally leads into creating work for specific sites such as the Tower of Winds (an eighteen century octagonal tower in Staffordshire), Goodwin Sands (a tidal sand bank off the Kent coast) and Orford Ness (a decommissioned bomb testing site on the Suffolk coast). Projects are often derived from extensive fieldwork with the aid of field recording and most importantly through the practice of non-technologically mediated soundwalking, exemplified in the triptych, Ochlophonic Studies: Hong Kong (1998-2009). Fundamentally, much of his work is collaborative including projects with Geoff Cox, Rachel Gomme, Alice Oswald, Alaric Sumner, Tony Thatcher, Lawrence Upton, David Behrman and Louise K. Wilson. He is a member of Blind Ditch.
Drever is an active sonic artist and soundscape researcher. He lecturers in Composition and is the head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. During the autumn semester 2007, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Critical Intermedia Laboratory , School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
Drever is an active sonic artist and soundscape researcher. He lecturers in Composition and is the head of the Unit for Sound Practice Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. During the autumn semester 2007, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Critical Intermedia Laboratory , School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
Shouts:
9 shouts
Top Albums
-
Peregrinations
John Levack Drever
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Indiestore £0.99
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
Shoutbox
-
paulalford10 wrote:
awesome music!!
-
phillip360 wrote:
We might like to attend the colloquium except we are out of the country. Thanks for the information and I hope the event goes well. Phillip.
-
maikado wrote:
Just listened to '-scape' - very intense, great experience
-
hungenInfo wrote:
abgefahrn ;-)
-
GeoffSaba wrote:
hippocampus needs a grammy
-
tekkie69 wrote:
What a soundscape, beautiful
-
mamc2501 wrote:
hippocampus is amazing, very... diferent and chilling and... wonderful. damn
-
stuartdmt wrote:
Listening to "hippocampus" and am amazed. Beautiful.
-
HectorMurrieta wrote:
Great work, Cheers!
News
SOUNDING BRIGHTON Innovative Sonic Experiments at Brighton & Hove's White Night
12 Oct 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/johnlevackdrever
SOUNDING BRIGHTON Innovative Sonic Experiments at Brighton
& Hove's White
Nighthttp://noiseabatementsociety.com/2011/09/16/sounding-brighton-innovative-sonic-eexperiments-at-brighton-hoves-white-night. …
-
12 Oct 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/johnlevackdrever -
16 Jul 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/johnlevackdrever -
26 Jun 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/johnlevackdrever
Top Listeners
-
LEGALLY-BLAND
Top Listener
-
foucaults_pen
Top Listener
-
killswtch
Top Listener
-
ferriswheel
Top Listener
Recent Activity
-
PortiaWinters tagged John Levack Drever with rnb, musique concrete, john levack drever and 4 other tags. Thursday afternoon
-
PortiaWinters added John Levack Drever to PortiaWinters’s library. Thursday afternoon
-
pataphonic updated the wiki page for John Levack Drever. (diff) last week
-
MilkandTime, selimteh, pl001 and 1 other person added John Levack Drever to their libraries. last month
- John Levack Drever posted a news item ‘SOUNDING BRIGHTON Innovative Sonic Experiments at Brighton & Hove's White Night’. October 2011
- John Levack Drever posted a news item ‘Die Kunde von den Klängen’. October 2011
-
richwhitelaw added John Levack Drever to richwhitelaw’s library. September 2011
- John Levack Drever posted a news item ‘Session 9 reflections: Listening to and sounding soundscapes’. July 2011
-
phillip360 connected John Levack Drever to the group 'pataphysics. June 2011
- John Levack Drever posted a news item ‘Phonography Colloquium, Sound Practice Research, Goldsmiths, University of London’. June 2011
More Information
- Links
