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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 Was Born In Edinburgh Scotland 1973 And Raised Between Dalkeith And Edinburgh. After A Year-Out Mis Spent Working In An Independant Record Store In Edinburgh That Today No Longer Exists And Hanging-Out In Paris And Luxembourg He Studied Music At The University Of Wales Bangor Followed By A Master Study In Electroacoustic Music Composition At The University Of East Anglia. In 2001 He Was Awarded A PhD From Dartington College Of Arts Titled 'Phonographies Practical And Theoretical Explorations Into Composing With Disembodied Sound'. During 2001-2 He Was A Research Assistant For The Digital Crowd University Of Plymouth Co-Ordinating Sounding Dartmoor A Soundscape Study Of Dartmoor. From 2003-04 He Was An ACE/AHRB Arts And Science Research Fellow With Centre For Computational Creativity City University Exploring Electronic Music Performance Interfaces That Learn From Their Users. Drever Was An Elected Director Of Sonic Arts Network 2004-8 And A Co-Founder And Chair Of The UK And Ireland Soundscape Community A Regional Affiliate Of The World Forum For Acoustic Ecology For Whom In 2001 He Chaired Sound Practice The 1st UKISC Conference On Sound Culture And Environments And Edited The Latest Edition Of Their Journal Earshot Issues 5 Noise Debates Strategies And Methodologies 2007 . He Is Currently Developing A Revisit Of The World Soundscape Project's London Soundwalk 1975 As Documented In The European Sound Diary 1977 With Members Of The UKISC And The Noise Future Network. Drever Has A Particular Interest In The Pioneering Use Of Location Recording And Sound Design In The Films Of The GPO Film Unit In The 1930s Jennings Cavalcanti Gray Et Al. Sounds Effects Of The ‘30s Everyday Use Of Portable Audio-Media Surround Sound Composition From Concert Hall To Cinema Field Recording Natural History Documentary The Everyday Phonography And Soundscape Composition Sound Poetry Ongoing Collaborations With Lawrence Upton Sound Installation And Cross-Art Form Collaboration With An Increasing Focus On Composing For Dance With Choreographer Tony Thatcher From Laban And The Art And Method Of Soundwalking. Commissions Range From The Groupe De Recherches Musicales 1999 Arts Council England 2002 & 2007 To The Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds 2002 . His Work Has Twice Been Awarded A Prize In The Annual Musica Nova Competition Prague 1997 & 1998 . Drever’s Writings Have Been Published In Organised Sound 2000 & 2002 And Has Contributed To The Recent Book Compilations Autumn Leaves Sound And The Environment In Artistic Practice Edited By Angus Carlyle 2007 And Hearing Places Sound Place Time Culture Edited By Ros Bandt Michelle Duffy & Dolly MacKinnon D. 2007 . ____________________________________________________________________
Publications Coming Up
*‘Sound Effect – Object – Event Endemic And Exogenous Electroacoustic Sound Practices In Theatre’ In Brown R. Ed. Reader In Theatre Sound And Aurality Palgrave. Forthcoming *‘Sounding Dartmoor A Case Study On The Soundscapes Of Rural England At The Opening Of The 21st Century’ In Cartografías De La Escucha Centro Galego De Arte Contemporánea. Forthcoming *'Soundwalking Creative Listening Beyond The Concert Hall' In Saunders J. Ed. The Ashgate Research Companion To Experimental Music Ashgate. Sept 09 ____________________________________________________________________
Selected Soundwalks
2002 Soundwalk Of Exeter Field Work SpaceX Fine Art Gallery Exeter. 2005 Soundwalk Of Holbeck Urban Village At Ways Of Hearing Leeds To Coincide With Fontana's Sound Installation Sound Lines In The Dark Arches Lumen And MAAP. 2005 Soundwalk Of Leeds Something Of The Night Leeds City Art Gallery. 2005 Soundwalk Of Eastside At Creative Lab In Birmingham To Coincide With Bill Fontana's Performance And Installation Of St Martin's Bells Sonic Mapping MADE And MAAP. 2007 Soundwalk Of Lewisham Lewisham Walking Festival. 2007 Soundwalk Of Manchester City Centre SenseScape Sensorial Studies Of Place An ESRC Research Seminar Series. 2007 Soundwalk Of Kowloon Tong Hong Kong With Students From The School Of Creative Media City University Of Hong Kong. 2008 Soundwalk Of Leeds An Event Related To The Current Exhibition Licht Auf Licht By Gerhard Kassner And Hans Peter Kuhn Project Space Leeds. 2009 London Soundwalk Revisit Easter 1975/2009 . Revisit Of The London Soundwalk As Published In The European Sound Diary 1977 By Members Of The World Soundscape Project Howard Broomfield Bruce Davis Peter Huse Jean Reed And R. M. Schafer. The 2009 London Soundwalk Was Devisid By Tsai Wei Chen Isobel Clouter Max Dixon John Levack Drever And Hildegard Westerkamp. Cosponsored By The Noise Futures Network And The Unit For Sound Practice Research Goldsmiths University Of London. Organised By The UK And Ireland Soundscape Community. ____________________________________________________________________
Recent Performances And Installations Selected Cattle Grids Of Dartmoor 2005 Atrium Sound Space College Of Santa Fe Campus In Santa Fe New Mexico 18/01/08–28/02/08. Ochlophonic Study 3 Hong Kong In Kettle’s Yard As Part Of ‘Music Sound And The Music Sound And The Re-Configuration Of Public And Private Space’ University Of Cambridge 18/04/08. NAMING For Ricki Redhead That The Tongue Is A Whip First Stereo Version 10 Minutes Approx. Text Pre-Recorded Voice Projections And Live Voice Lawrence Upton Treatment Of Recorded Voice Additional Sound Sampling John Drever The Shunt Lounge London Bridge 5/06/08. -Stance 2008 At Turteatern Stockholm With Ina Dokmo Dancer And Tony Thatcher Choreographer 17/7/08. Ochlophonic Study 3 Hong Kong 2008 Musée De Grenoble France At The International Colloquium Faire Une Ambiance / Creating An Atmosphere Organised By The "Ambiances Architecturales Et Urbaines" Laboratory A Mixed Research Unit UMR Affiliated To CNRS/Ministére De La Culture Architecture /Ecoles Nationales Supérieures D'Architecture Of Grenoble And Nantes 11/09/08. That The Tongue Is A Whip 8-Channel Version 10 Minutes Approx. Text Pre-Recorded Voice Projections And Live Voice Lawrence Upton Studio Treatment Of And Composition With Recorded Voice Additional Sound Sampling And Live Treatment Of Voice And Sound John Drever Presented At Great Hall Goldsmiths - Sound Practice Research Concert 21/11/08. Ochlophonic Study 3 Hong Kong 2008 Gallery Exhibition HK Sound Station Curated By Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya Parasite Gallery Hong Kong 7/02/09–3/04/09. –stance 2008 With Ina Dokmo Tony Thatcher And David Behrman In The MOMENT Festival Of Improvised Dance And Music TrinityLaban Laban Bonnie Bird Theatre 17/02/09. Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A 1965 With Martin Hargreaves And Robert Coleridge. In The MOMENT Festival Of Improvised Dance And Music TrinityLaban. Trinity College Of Music 19/02/09. In Between And Around Liminal Places Van – L Dance Company Chisenhale Dance Space 27/02/09. Audience Hearing Sound Installation Devised By Rachel Gomme. Sound Composition John Levack Drever. Goldsmiths University Of London 20/04/09.
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Discography
Drever's Sound Work Is Published By Pataphonic *Phonographies Glasgow Frankfurt Exeter 2003 *Cattle Grids Of Dartmoor 2006 For SpaceX & Liquid Press I-Dat *Editor Of Sounding Dartmoor 2002 For Sonic Arts Network * Editor Of Sounding Soundscape Composition 2001 *Pastoral Pause 'A Call For Silence' CD Curated By Nicolas Collins 2004 *3 Pataphonic Studies 'Pataphysics' CD Curated By Andrew Hugil 2005 For The UK And Ireland Soundscape Community *Editor Of Architectural Soundmarks Accompanying CD For Earshot 4 'Time And Visibility II' 2004 *Editor Of Disappearing Soundmarks Accompanying CD For Earshot 5 'NOISE Debates Strategies And Methodologies' 2007 Online Compilation Curated By Angus Carlyle And Gruenrekorder 2007 *phonographies Of Glasgow Walk 1999 Autumn Leaves | Field Recording And Soundscape Compilation Http //www.Myspace.Com/johnlevackdrever read less