CV & contact

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].

Working Practice:

Finding myself in an engaging environment, or where a particular phenomenon – some aspect of the environment – provokes interest, I record both sound and video, or perhaps sound alone.

Themes of time and place constitute a recurrent motif – for example, recordings made at the same place, same time or at the same place, but different time. Phased recordings and playback, using the same structure but different geographical locations or time uncover issues of unity and estrangement, creating soundscapes of assonance and dissonance.

Journeys form another keynote: the juxtaposing of historical issues and present day realities, take the audience on a sonic travelogue via field recording or installation. My improvised compositions discover means of extracting sound – directly via interaction with architectural structures and indirectly through the creative use of site-specific features. Each location creates its individual travelogue and these audio/audio-visual journeys may be viewed as virtual reality, as virtual fantasy – or perhaps both, entirely dependent on individual interpretation(s).

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David Eric William Rogers

address:

2 folly square
bridport
dorset dt6 3pu
mobile: 07971 726 906
e: dr@davidrogersstudio.uk

co-Director: electricbackroom Ltd. [Dorset] April 2016 – date

co-Director: DIVAcontemporary Ltd. [Dorset] April 2012 – 2016

Trustee: Digital Works [London] September 2008 – date

co-Director: LabCulture Ltd. [Dorset] July 2009 – April 2012

Chair of Visual Arts Panel: Bridport Arts Centre [Dorset] April 1996 – August 1997

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