October 2022
Sonic Cartography Conference ‘From Montage to Palimpsest’ Workshop and Installation – collaborative project with Marcus Leadley, invited conference delegates to explore Chatham Historic Dockyard and submit recordings for inclusion in the wireless headphone installation. Supported by University of Kent, Goldsmiths University London and electricbackroom STUDIO: more
September 2022
Confluence MicroFestival of Experimental Sound – Performed ‘Dark Dawn :: Bright Future’ a new work for field recordings and voice. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’. Curated by Professor Adrian Newton. Supported by Wimborne Contemporary Arts and electricbackroom STUDIO: more
July 2022
RiverRun :: radio art zone – Field recordings incorporated in a 22 hour broadcast curated by David Buckland – creator and founder of the Cape Farewell: more
June 2022
sounding shore :: COAST TO COAST collaborative project with Marcus Leadley, Whitstable Biennale Satellite programme. Curated a two channel ‘silent’ (headphone) sonic concert, featuring 19 invited live performers and 9 pre-recorded works. Supported by Goldsmiths University of London, Cement Fields – New Art North Kent and electricbackroom STUDIO: more
October 2021
undercurrents [Wimborne Community Theatre river project event] public event and ‘live’ performance, working with Lynn Davy and Adrian Newton on the River Allen at Walford Mill Dorset. Published album on electricbackroom STUDIO BandCamp label.
download available: more
June 2021
sound fishing 2 [BEAF festival event] working with Lynn Davy, Adrian Newton and Arthur Newton – a weekend live stream event on youtube, from the River Allen, Dorset and published album on electricbackroom STUDIO BandCamp label.
download available: more
May 2021
International Dawn Chorus Day 2021 live broadcast on locus sonus sound map, from electricbackroom STUDIO and published three albums on BandCamp of associate artists ‘soundings’ and ‘responses’.
downloads available: more
September 2020
World Rivers Day 2020 organised and participated in a day long event for electricbackroom STUDIO and published a BandCamp audio download of participants sound, images and text responses to this years WRD.
download available: more
July 2020
World Listening Day 2020 organised and participated in a day long event for electricbackroom STUDIO and published a BandCamp audio download of participants sound, images and text responses to this years WLD theme THE COLLECTIVE FIELD.
download available: more
November 2019
Sounds from the Garden [Being Human Festival] collaboration between Goldsmiths University and electricbackroom STUDIO. David Rogers, Marcus Leadley and Adrian Newton led a series of sound walks around The Horniman Museum Gardens, London. Giving an improvised sound concert, utilising the found sounds in the Horniman Garden Conservatory on the Saturday. Curated ‘live’ performances in the Bandstand, on Sunday and Ambrose Seddon’s sound installation was sited in The Horniman’s Natural History Gallery for the weekend. Being Human Festival, Sschool of Advanced Study, University of London in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. Sounds from the Garden download available: more
July 2019
TIPPING POINT Exploring the impact of environmental cgange on Dorset esosystems through sound and the possibilities of non-linear change (tipping points) driven by feedbacks and chaos. Supported by Bournemouth University, electricbackroom and DIVAcontemporary STUDIO. At the Literary and Scientific Institute, Bridport. more
May 2019
the museum of ecoacoustic phenomena collaborative project with Marcus Leadley, Adrian Newton and Ambrose Seddon, Bournemouth Emerging Arts Commission. Curated and organised a weekend of audio events including two sonic installations and two channel ‘silent’ (headphone) sonic concerts, featuring 6 invited live performers and 10 pre-recorded works. Supported by Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe, Bournemouth University, Goldsmiths University of London, electricbackroom and DIVAcontemporary STUDIO. At the Bounemouth Natural Science Society Museum. more
June 2018
sounding shore :: COAST TO COAST collaborative project with Marcus Leadley, Whitstable Biennale programme. Curated a two channel ‘silent’ (headphone) sonic concert, featuring 21 invited live performers and 11 pre-recorded works. Supported by Whitstable Biennale, Goldsmiths University and DIVAcontemporary STUDIO. Downloads available from: https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/
April 2018
PLASTIC :: OCEAN ivon oates and David Rogers presented their audio work ‘PLASTIC :: OCEAN’ at the screening of ‘A Plastic Ocean’ by Craig Leeson, a Transition Town Bridport event during Bridport Green Fortnight.
PLASTIC :: OCEAN by ivon oates and David Rogers
Live audio performance recorded by Nemeton [40 min]
Download available from: https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/
November 2017
sound :: lost and found [Being Human Festival] collaboration between Goldsmiths University and DIVAcontemporary STUDIO. David Rogers, Marcus Leadley, Adrian Newton and James Bulley led a series of sound walks around West Bay, Dorset. Giving an improvised sound concert, utilising the found sounds in the Salt House, West Bay. Being Human Festival, Sschool of Advanced Study, University of London in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. sound :: lost and found supported by West Dorset District Council. Download available from: https://divacontemporary.bandcamp.com/album/sound-lost-and-found-symphony
Link to documentation: https://vimeo.com/244049707
October 2017
The Forest of Plasticity :: Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival [fringe] Curated by Adrian Newton, a place of transformation and mutability. Where sound is plastic and plastic is sound. Sound art and experimental music by local and international artists, exploring sonic responses to ocean plastic. Headphone concert and live performance.
Link: https://electricbackroom.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/the-forest-of-plasticity/
September 2017
Benthic Caress :: Plymouth Art Weekender A one-hour ecoacoustic performance piece, curated by Laura Denning with contributions from Chris Watson, Leah Barclay, Jez Riley French, ivon oates, David Rogers, Rachael Allain, Andrea V Wrights, Moore & Parker, Lee Berwick and the SW Trio Wildlife Discotheque. Supported by Take A Part, Plymouth City Council and crowdfunder.
June 2017
Sounding… Site specific performances, interventions and installations designed to explore the sonics of place. Collaboration with Dr. Marcus Leadley, a series of environmentally responsive ‘silent’ event during Sound and Environment [Art Science Listening Collaboration] Conference at the University of Hull.
May 2017
SoundCamp :: Live Performance – responses and Reveil live Broadcast and soundwalk. Performance response to live stream from http://locusonus.org/soundmap/051/ Part of International Day Chorus Day 2017. supported by B3Media, Southwark Neighbourhoods Fund, private supporters, SHED, DIVAcontemporary STUDIO. Download Saturday 6th May – Live Performances and Sunday 7th May Dawn Chorus.
January 2017
South Winterbourne Journey presented 16 short films and 4 audio works as part of a launch event for the South Dorset Landscape Partnership project (Land, Bone and Stone) at St. Martin’s Village Hall, Dorset. Supported by HLF, Dorset AONB and WDDC.
August 2016
SOUND MUSIC ROBOT :: a sound improvisation collaborative project with Alex McKechinie and Adrian Newton, part of the force8 programme, West Bay, Dorset.
June 2016
sonic coast :: sounding shore collaborative project with Marcus Leadley and Mandy Rathbone, part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite programme. Curated a two channel ‘silent’ (headphone) sound installation, featuring 10 invited live performers and pre-recorded works.
April 2016
[dis]location and butterfly screened as part of DADA garden at Hilda Coles Open Learning Centre, Wimborne. Wimborne Contemporary Arts.
March – May 2016
Bob the Farmer : Responses to Grafters – Industrial society in image and word. Oral history recording [recorded and produced] at the People’s History Museum, Manchester.
February 2016
Tempest played as part of DADA nights, a celebration of 100 years of DADA at DIVAcontemporary Studio.
November 2015
Dungeness Tower featured in PNEM Sound Art Festival 2015 ‘The Wood Walk Experience’.
July 2015
Dungeness Shoreline a new composition included on sonic terrain’s compilation release for World Listening Day 2015. [STR 024] World Listening Day 2015 – H2O (Pt.II)
July 2015
in the bakery video work, sound by Joe Stevens, still images by Eva Fahle-Clouts, featured in regularJOE open studio at DIVAcontemporary.
July 2015
elements, Dungeness Tower and [dis]location video and sound work, included in sonic coast :: on film programme of screenings at DIVAcontemporary studio.
May 2015
Kinokophonography: endangered trio sound work featured at the British Library.
April 2015
Dungeness Tower sound work included in Cities and Memory ‘Oblique Strategies’ project.
January 2015
sounds of the ridgeway :: interval podcast sound work featured in live broadcast from Beaminster School, Dorset. Part of sonic coast [5].
A DIVAcontemporary Studio project, supported by Sound and Music, ACE and WDDC.
November 2014
fin :: interval podcast sound work featured in live broadcast from Weymouth College, Dorset. Part of sonic coast [4]. A DIVAcontemporary Studio project, supported by Sound and Music, ACE and WDDC.
October 2014
soundings :: interval podcast sound work featured in live broadcast from The Drill Hall, Portland. Part of sonic coast [3].
A DIVAcontemporary Studio project, supported by Sound and Music, ACE and WDDC.
September 2014
Kinokophonography: suoni dal futuro musicisti remix sound work featured in the New York Library of Performing Art.
August 2014
open studio :: the vintage teaset mix presented ‘fin’ a 30minute sound work as part of the Bridport Open Studio weekend.
DIVAcontemporary Studio.
July 2014
escalator included on Sonic Terrain ‘fragility’ WLD compilation album.
June 2014
KUKI collective ‘1 2 3’ on MUTE sounds CD22 compilation album.
May 2014
coast to coast :: chapel boundary DIVAcontemporary open studio at the Whitstable Biennale Satellite. Contact mic sound work included in and co-curated a 2 hour wireless headphone installation on the beach, with Marcus Leadley.
supported by DIVAcontemporary Studio.
May 2014
shadow drawing 1 :: [with music by Marc Yeats] screened during ‘Topography Disarranged Landscape, Dislocation & Place at The Queen of Hungary Project Space, Norfolk.
March 2014
treppenhaus musik :: extended 20min version of live performance improvisation used by Sadaharu Horio and the KUKI collective, during ‘circles and peas’ at Espace Le Carre, Lille France [29/03/14].
supported by Visual Arts South West, DIVAcontemporary Studio.
artconnexion residency.
December 2013
SOUNDING[S] :: hooke wood encounters released a four track album, on Bandcamp and internet radio podcast on DIVAcontemporary radio, in collaboration with artists Mandy Rathbone, ivon oates and Joe Stevens.
a metamedia project.
November 2013
shadow drawing 1 :: PNEM Video work with music by Marc Yeats screened at PNEM Sound Art Festival in Uden Nederland 16th and 17th November 2013.
November 2013
RIDGEWAYsounds [open studio8] exhibited ‘populus alba’: a three screen and projection installation, with a special installation mix of participants collected audio from two ‘sound walks’.
A DIVAcontemporary, South Dorset Ridgeway Landscape Partnership project. Supported by HLF and WDDC.
October 2013
EVANESCENT CONTINENTS 1 Audio field recording included in work // Troll by Mikatsiu presented at X Marks the Bökship, London on 17th October 2013.
August 2013
sonic coast :: metamedia [open studio7] exhibited Portland Stone: a four screen installation, butterfly and [dis]location two short films during DIVAcontemporary’s open studio7.
Plus a live performance of field recordings with the other members of metamedia.
Supported by DIVAcontemporary.
August 2013
sonic coast :: metamedia experiments in reinterpreting the landscape – working from
and experimenting in the Drill Hall, sonically exploring Portland quarries, showcasing work in progress.
Supported by DIVAcontemporary and Portland Sculpture Quarry Trust.
July 2013
World Listening Day organised and led a participatory sound walk from Bridport to West Bay plus a sound editing workshop, accessing aporee maps network to distribute sounds.
DIVAcontemporary Studio project.
June 2013
framework: city wandering sound work featured on radio broadcast. resonanceFM (London), radio nouspace (Vancouver), soundart radio (Devon), radio zero (Lisbon), radio mars (Maribor), radio campus (Brussels) and wgxc (New York).
April 2013
Kinokophonography: qua[D]rille remix sound work featured at MadLab Manchester.
April 2013
SOUNDING[S] :: in the bakery: a unique portrait of an architectural space.
Investigating the intersections and relationships between architecture, space,
memory and sound. Seeing the ways in which architecture can shape,
and be shaped by, sound; the resonant properties of the built environment;
and aural culture as a possible invisible architecture.
March 2013
MAKEaNOISE: manifesto 1913-2013 ‘live’ audio presentation as part of ‘metamedia’
celebration of 100 years of the Futurist ‘art of noise’ manifesto.
February – March 2013
audiograft jukebox: chapel remix audio soundscape included on audiograft jukebox at
audiograft 2013 (Oxford).
January 2013
Sound Devices n.1: TEMPEST audio installation included in the opening event at
Rathmines Library (Dublin). TEMPEST used for podcast intro on n.1 to 5.
September 2012
FFOder meets FFmain soundscape: remixed soundscapes for stereo playback during exhibition. ‘East meets West – West meets East 3’ by Eva Fahle-Clouts referencing German unification. Evangelischen Kirchengemeinde, Höchst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
August 2012
counterspirit: curated and exhibited installations and interventions in
local venues to complement The Bridport Festival of Culture.
electricbackroom project.
June 2012
chapel: an experimental performative collaboration with artists Mandy Rathbone,
and Joe Stevens. Focusing on site-specific acoustic interventions.
a metamediaUK project [limited edition CD available Dec].
January 2012
angle: an experimental performative collaboration with artists ivon oates,
Catlin Copeland and Joe Stevens. Focusing on site-specific acoustic interventions.
a metamediaUK, 51Degrees project [limited edition CD].
November 2011
countertext11: curated and exhibited installations and interventions in
local venues to complement The Bridport Open Book Festival.
electricbackroom project.
October 2011
Green: 20min video projection for premiere performance of
‘Strange Geometry’ by Marc Yeats, 3rd International Contemporary
Music Festival, The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, Cyprus. Also at BKA, Berlin.
October 2011
FFmain soundscape: collected sound recordings, mixed soundscape for exhibition.
‘East meets West – West meets East 2’ by Eva Fahle-Clouts referencing German unification.
Zeil 17-21, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
June 2011
Impossible architexture: an aural architectural soundpiece, working with
artist ivon oates and young people from ‘Portland Rocks’ music group.
b-side ‘encounters’ project.
November 2010
countertext10: curated and exhibited installations and interventions in
local venues to complement The Bridport Literary Festival.
electricbackroom project.
October 2010
FFOder soundscape: collected sound recordings, mixed soundscape for exhibition.
‘East meets West – West meets East’ by Eva Fahle-Clouts referencing German unification.
Friedenskirche, Schulstrasse 4a, 15230 Frankfurt Oder, Germany.
July 2010
siteworks2: celebrating ‘World Listening Day’
collected sound recordings, mixed soundscape for web.
Weymouth promenade and Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival.
PVA MediaLab project.
June 2010
audiolab10.02 Coast to Coast: sound symposium – the language of place
co-curated and led soundwalks, produced field recordings for web.
Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme.
PVA MediaLab project.
March 2010
audiolab10.01: sound symposium – the language of place
co-curated and led soundwalks, produced field recordings for web.
Bridport and West Bay, Dorset
PVA MediaLab project.
February 2010
SHUNT: video projection for dance piece. Produced by Nikki Northover
with music composed by Andrew Dickson.
Bridport Youth Dance – Bridport Arts Centre.
January 2010
siteworks1: co-curated temporary work in temporary spaces
projections on the jurassic coast.
electricbackroom + PVA MediaLab project.
November 2009
countertext09: curated and exhibited installations and interventions in
Bridport Arts Centre and local venues to complement The Bridport Literary Festival.
electricbackroom project.
October 2009
Siren: exhibited a multiple monitor and audio installation.
With James Price and Mark Yeats.
Pumping Station, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth
South West Artwork project.
August 2009
Wireless: Performance developed with Nigel Slight using an audio recording
of Caryl Churchill’s 7 Jewish Children a 10 minute play for Gaza.
Commissioned by alias arts
electricbackroom project.
June 2009
7 Jewish Children: Produced Caryl Churchill’s 10 minute play for Gaza.
Bridport Arts Centre
electricbackroom+BACLate project.
March 2009
Pulse: video projection for dance piece. Produced by Nikki Northover
with music composed by Andrew Dickson.
Bridport Arts Centre.
January 2009
+connected: exhibited ‘kristallnacht’ an installation and curated an exhibition for
Holocaust Memorial Day. Screened Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ by kind permission
from Eureka Video and premiered ‘Hannah’s Story’ by Katherine Kinger
& Ruti Frensdorff by kind permission from The Wiener Library
Bridport Arts Centre
electricbackroom project.
December 2008
The Works: exhibited a mixed media installation and a digital video projection.
Pumping Station, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth
South West Artwork project.
November 2008
countertext08: curated and exhibited installations and interventions in local venues
to complement The Bridport Literary Festival.
electricbackroom project.
September 2008
Soldier’s Verse1 [Weymouth and Portland]: 52min audio
read by Richard Mabb and Sweetpea Slight installed in nothe fort [Weymouth]
part of the B-Side Festival of multimedia art
June/July 2008
recipefordisaster:
intervention [“if the bee disapeared…”] in collaboration with Nigel Slight,
7min DVD soundscape and cast sculpture, installed in Fruits of the Earth.
intervention [recipe for disaster] in collaboration with Nigel Slight,
digital text and cast sculpture, installed in Naturalife.
intervention [readings] in collaboration with Richard Mabb and Nigel Slight,
readings by Richard Mabb at The Chapel in the Garden.
https://electricbackroom.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/recipefordisaster/
March-May 2008
electricshorts: showing ‘street beuys’
2min DVD, filmed in New York, shown as part of a new season of artists film.
The Electric Palace Cinema Bridport.
electricbackroom project.
March 2008
RELEASETHERHYTHM08: video projection for dance piece.
Bridport Arts Centre.
March 2008
Creative Footsteps: exhibited ‘sounds of the ridgeway’
28min audio soundscape, part of a group exhibition of work produced for
the Wessex Ridgeway. The Pound Arts Centre, Pound Pill, Corsham
An Artsreach project
October 2007
Creative Footsteps: exhibited ‘sounds of the ridgeway’
28min audio soundscape, part of a group exhibition of work produced for
the Wessex Ridgeway. Lyme Regis Town Mill Gallery, Ashmore, Ibberton Village Halls
and Beaminster Museum.
An Artsreach project
September 2005
European Citizenship and Communication: exhibited ‘Maisema’ [Landscape]
18min DVD, filmed in and about Karkkila [Finland]. A group exhibition in Meerssen [NL].
February 2002
Wallpaper, Nets and Handbags: exhibition of 3 installations on the theme of family.
A group exhibition, at the Literary and Scientific Institute Bridport.
A DNA / PVA project.
September 2001
Ground Farce: exhibited site specific installation looking at issues of popular culture.
A group exhibition, at Re.projects gallery Stroud Glos.
A PVA project.
November 2000
SWIPE2 @ PVA: exhibition of digital video work, with other members of PVA.
Second Media Festival showcasing new work by six artists working in digital technologies
at the Old Library Bridport. A PVA project
October 2000
Coastal Currents: exhibited video installation as part of a Year of the Artist film festival,
at St Mary’s, Hastings
August 2000
Quadrille: exhibition of video installation, on the theme of travel, in the carriages of
the East Cliff Funicular Railway – Hastings. Organisation of workshops in sound
and movement with groups of asylum seekers. A Year Of The Artist project.
July 1998
VIAS: exhibition of digital video installation with sound.
A group exhibition at the Old Library Bridport. A PVA project.
December 1997
Short Life 2: exhibition of digital video installation.
A group exibition at the Old Library Bridport and on the Internet. A PVA project.
October 1997
Still Working: exhibition of 3D multimedia installation in an exhibition of Weymouth College staff work.
The Allsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre.
November 1992
Window: group exhibition of computer generated images in foyer
and front display window of St. Martins School of Art [London].
April 1990
The Works: exhibition of computer generated images in an exhibition of Weymouth College
staff work, at Weymouth College.
April 1989
Of Mice and Menus: group exhibition of computer generated images
in the Lethaby Gallery London. Featured in ‘Creative Review’ & ‘Hot Shoe’ magazines.
June 1976
Degree Show: exhibition of 5 prototype designs, featured in ‘Design’ magazine.
The Building Centre, London.
freelance – design for print & digital media:
david rogers studio 