CV 2025

I have been working in the art and technology sector for over thirty years. Since 2010 I’ve been working with associates Professor Adrian Newton (Bournemouth University) and Dr Marcus Leadley (Goldsmiths University of London) on a series of collaborative, public, sound events that examine change within the landscape through ecoacoustic ‘live’ performance and installation. These include: ecosonica : : WEEKENDER [2024], Sound Fishing : : Dorchester Science Festival [2022-2025], ‘from MONTAGE to PALIMPSEST’ : : Sonic Cartography Conference University of Kent [2022], Sounding Shore : : coast to coast Whitstable Biennale [2010 – 2022], ‘the museum of ecoacoustic phenomena’ : : Bournemouth Emerging Arts Festival Commission [2019], Sounds from the Garden : : Being Human Festival [2019], Tipping Point Sound Artists Responses : : Bournemouth University Project [2019], sound :: lost and found : : Being Human Festival [2018], Land Bone & Stone : : The South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership [2013 – 2017].

further details:

Take Me To The River : : Dorchester Science Festival 2025

Saturday 15th March 10am – 1pm

Download available on BandCamp: https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/take-me-to-the-river-2025

Venue: The Watershed – Sydling St. Nicholas – Dorset DT2 9NS

Families and people of all ages attended the free event, and experienced an array of exciting, hands-on activities where they could explore underwater worlds. Participants worked with scientists and artists to investigate and learn about freshwater habitats and their biodiversity.

further details: https://www.capefarewell.com/take-me-to-the-river-2025/

wish you were here : : countertext 2024

by various artist

https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/wish-you-were-here-countertext-2024

after a ten year silence countertext returned in 2024 – a collection of audio postcards, exchanged between the UK, Germany, Spain and France…..

countertext [2008 – 2014] were collections of transmedia installations and events to complement the Bridport Literary Festival including painting, photography, sculpture, video, sound and performance, curated by David Rogers and long time collaborator Nigel Slight installed in various retail shops, work places and venues around Bridport.

Links to countertext archive and downloads:
countertext.wordpress.com
metamedia.bandcamp.com/track/dystopian-beatbox-remix
metamedia.bandcamp.com/track/statement
metamedia.bandcamp.com/album/countertext2014

cover art by:
Barbie Mcclure

Bonus items included with FULL ALBUM download:
Nigel Slight : : Desktop
Nigel Slight ‘2’ : : video
Pedro Bericat : : postcard
Barbie Mcclure : : postcard
Nigel Crawley ‘shader’ : : video
DR : : ‘imagine peace’ Yoko Ono
Eva Fahle-Clouts : : postcard


download produced by:
David Rogers for electricbackroom STUDIO Dorset UK

sound fishing [5] : : Adrian Newton

Hydrophone recordings made on the rivers Nadder and Avon, near Salisbury, in April 2024. This was a contribution to the Salisbury River Park Project, which is aiming to develop a network of public greenspace along the rivers and throughout the town. The recordings were used in a public performance, with clarinettist Karen Wimhurst, to help launch the project.

Download available:

https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/sound-fishing-5
salisburycitycouncil.gov.uk/our-city/salisbury-river-park-art/

Recording and Production – Adrian Newton
Images – Adrian Newton
Download – David Rogers for electricbackroom STUDIO, Dorset

Water – Wasser – Aqua – H2O

exhibition of photography – video – sound – objects – texts – talks – water rituals – music

The Malthouse Gallery
Town Mill
Lyme Regis
DT7 3PU
Open 10.30-5pm

23rd September – 6th October 2024

Eva Fahle-Clouts in collaboration with David Rogers will share her love of water and reflections on protecting this precious substance.

programme of supporting events:

Sunday 22nd September [2pm – 4pm] World Rivers Day Walk
Meet at Gosling Bridge, Lyme Regis

Gosling Bridge is at the junction of Coombe Street and Hill Road
https://what3words.com/gossiped.romantics.repair

Tuesday 24th September [6pm-8pm] Talk – Carlos Guarita, photographs taken over a period of twenty years while on assignments to Angola, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan and Burundi. 

Wednesday 25th September [6pm – 8pm] Water Rituals in Catholicism, Judaism and Islam. With Fr Jacek A. Kostuch, Sara Moon and Neomi Alam

Thursday 26th September [6pm – 8pm] Talk – ‘Getting Healthy in Toxic Times’ Dr Jenny Goodman

Saturday 28th September [6pm – 8pm] Music – Jenny Bliss & Ron Phelan

download performance audio from BandCamp: https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/water-wasser-aqua-eau-h2o

Tuesday 1st October [6pm – 8pm] Talk – The River Lim Action Group and Simon Bethel [Surfers Against Sewage]

Friday 4th October [6pm – 8pm] Water Rituals the significance of water in Hinduism and Unitarianism. With Sandhya Dave and The Reverend Elizabeth Harley

supported by: Christina Roessler, David West, Stuart Case, Turn Lyme Green, The River Lim Action Group, SEAFAIR, electricbackroom STUDIO, The Malthouse Gallery, Carlos Guarita,  Fr Jacek A. Kostuch, Sara Moon, Neomi Alam, Dr Jenny Goodman, Simon Bethel (Surfers Against Sewage),  Sandhya Dave and The Reverend Elizabeth Harley

ecosonica WEEKENDER

7th – 9th june 2024

The Salt House – West Bay – Dorset DT6 4HB

an informal ‘drop in and out’ programme of ecoacoustic events….

friday 7th june {11.00 – 17.00}

11.00 – 13.00 listening / recording / soundwalk
Adrian Newton and David Rogers
meet in The Salt House at 11.00.

14.00 – 16.00 audio editing (for cassette making)
Adrian Newton and David Rogers.

14.00 – 16.00 audio cassette and printmaking demonstration
Lynn Davy and Adrian Newton.

14.00 – 17.00 extended performances / sound installations and screenings
Arthur Newton, Adrian Newton and David Rogers.

saturday 8th june {11.00 – 21.30}

11.00 – 13.00 listening / recording / soundwalk
Adrian Newton, Marcus Leadley and David Rogers
meet in The Salt House at 11.00.

14.00 – 16.00 audio editing
(for cassette making and performance)
Adrian Newton, Marcus Leadley and David Rogers.

14.00 – 16.00 audio cassette and printmaking demonstration
Lynn Davy and Adrian Newton.

14.00 – 17.00 extended performances / sound installations and screenings
Arthur Newton, Adrian Newton, Marcus Leadley and David Rogers.

17.00 – 19.00 Break (performance and concert set up).

19.00 – 19.30 soundwalk performance
Marcus Leadley and participants from the listening / recording / soundwalk.

19.30 – 21.30 ‘live’ performance

Tansy Spinks & Iris Garrelfs
Pete Treglown
Circles in Circles visuals by Lynn Davy and Arthur Newton
No Context visuals by Lynn Davy and Arthur Newton

sunday 9th june {11.00 – 16.00}

11.00 12.00 Blanc Sceol deep listening workshop
meet in The Salt House at 11.00.

12.00 – 16.00 experimental PROMS ‘live’ performance

Neon Lattice
Dog on a Deckchair
Tansy Spinks & Iris Garrelfs
David Rogers
Eva Fahle-Clouts
Pete Treglown
Geräuschhersteller
Trisha and Sebastian

http://www.ecosonica.net/

World Rivers Day 2023

‘The River Lim’ 2023

David Rogers and Eva Fahle-Clouts
World Rivers Day 2023 – 24th September 11am-1pm.

https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/world-rivers-day-2023-sounding-s-response-s-on-the-rivers-lim-stour

A ‘Talking Walk’ event for the Shute Festival 2023, with the River Lim Action Group, Vicki Elcoate, Paul Butter, Rob Thomas and artists Eva Fahle-Clouts and David Rogers.

The Action Group and members of the public walked along the river discussing it’s ecology and the campaign to clean it up.

www.shutefest.org.uk
turnlymegreen.co.uk/water-pollution-and-rivers/
evafahleclouts.wordpress.com

BandCamp download cover by Bonnie Talbot

Images by Vicki Elcoate & Eva Fahle-Clouts