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ONLY EXPANSION – opens in Bristol, tickets here / Watershed / 26/11/18
It Must Have Been Dark By Then book now on sale in the shop / 13/08/18
Common Dreams w/Tineke De Meyer / Sound design for Maria Lucia Cruz Correia / Gent / 21/06/18
Anthropocene Elegy and Geospatial Presence w/Jon Dovey / Paper publication in Media Theory Journal / 01/06/18
Words We Never Wrote w/Sarah Anderson / Soundtrack for Tom Abba installation / Hay Festival / 25/05/18
We Sing In Fire And Blood w/Sarah Anderson / Soundtrack for Hazel Grian VR work / Bristol / 09/05/18
Billenium Square w/Uninvited Guests / Layered Realities, Bristol / 17/3/18
solo concert / BEEF, Bristol / 07/02/18
Immersive Audioscapes Panel presentation at i-Docs 2018, Bristol / 21/03/18
It Must Have Been Dark By Then / True False Festival, Columbia / 03/03/18
Walking through stories / Lecture at Authentic Voices / ARIA, Antwerp / 07/12/17
Say When w/ Tineke De Meyer / for BBC Radio 3 / Between The Essays / 04/12/17
It Must Have Been Dark By Then / IDFA, Amsterdam / Doclab Jury selection / 16/11/17
Conversation #7 w/ Tineke De Meyer / Third Coast Festival, Chicago / 03/11/17
It Must Have Been Dark by Then / Screen City Biennial, Stavanger / 11/10/17
solo concert / Screen City Biennial, Stavanger / 10/10/17
Only Expansion work in progress / Lydgalleriet, Bergen / 08/09/17
A Duet for Here and There / BBC Radio4, Short Cuts / 22/08/17
It Must Have Been Dark By Then / British Library, London / 03/07/17
Gewoonlijk Wachten We w/ Tineke De Meyer, Eva De Groot / Gent Library / 10/03/17
Give Me Back My Broken Night w/Univited Guests / Albany, Deptford / 10/11/16

ONLY EXPANSION

Friday 26th and Saturday 27th October, Bristol

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As sea levels rise and wildfires burn, Only Expansion remixes the sound of Bristol so you can experience sonically how your own life might change in the future. Headphones with customised electronics capture and manipulate the sounds around you, voices of passers by become a choir, bus brakes create pulsating rhythms, these might then be mixed with desert winds from Tunisia or the crumbling coasts of Norfolk.
A visceral and poetic reflection on what it means to live on a planet in crisis, Only Expansion connects the here to the elsewhere, letting you experience our tangled ecology through sound.
Only Expansion is commissioned by University of Exeter Arts And Culture. It was developed with support from Lydgalleriet Bergen, Theatre in The Mill Bradford, and Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants.

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SOUND AND MUSIC

In addition to the audio led projects documented across this site, soundtracks and sound design have been created for work by : Prototype Theatre | Atelier Bildraum | Splash And Ripple | Els Viaene | Sita Calvert Ennals | Britt Hatzius | Kathleen Herbert  and more... Voiceovers provided for projects by : Sanne De Wilde | Calvium | Tom Abba Radio works created for Short Cuts (BBC Radio 4) | …

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CONSULTANCY

Creative and technical approaches to locative audio, mobile pervasive media, immersive experience design, sound and public space interventions. Previously provided to Punchdrunk | Britt Hatzius | AntiVJ | Atelier Bildraum | Pervasive Media Studio | Laura Kriefman and more.... Get in contact for more information   WORKSHOPS: Provided in academic and independent contexts. …

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ABOUT

Duncan Speakman (UK 1976) is a composer and sound artist based at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol. He creates narrative sound led experiences that engage audiences in uncontrolled public and private space. He regularly creates bespoke work internationally including installations on trains in Guangzhou, loudspeaker symphonies in New Zealand, audio walks in Saitama, and sound installations in …

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