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Bar de Água 

In Autumn 2024, Julian presented Bar de Água as part of a residency at Binaural Nodar in Várzea (Viseu), Portugal. Bar de Água strictly adheres to the association's ethos which states that it

"…is important to move away from a certain anthropological sway (still very much
present in contemporary art), in which a community is considered just as a carrier of
images, stories, knowledge or experiences, and the artist just has to receive that
information and work from it." – Challenges #6, The Nodar Case.

Bar de Água then took the form of a series of conversations where interested members of the community were aked to tell us something about the local springs. Field recordings made only at locations given during the conversations, are anonymously mapped (not shown) and played in the bar.

A duplicate and initially blank map (pictured above) is presented for residents to populate using coloured pins, yarn connected to written cards under a subset of themes (Memory, Faith, Community, Springs, Agriculture,Infrastructure) that arose during the conversations.

During their work, the bar provided handmade effervescent elaborations of the communal Várzea spring water in a classic trio of tart, stinking and salt.

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Summer 2024

In the Field 2

In July 2024, Julian presented Being-at-work in the Field at In the Field 2: A three day event exploring the themes, issues and practices of contemporary field recording. Full details and tickets are available from the Crisap website

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Outwork moves to a new location

In spring this year, the new owners at Nehaven Fort closed for restoration. Outwork, installed there for the last six years, was moved to a new location in Sussex run by The Ecomusicology Project.

Particularly exciting is the opportunity to run the acoustic tests that just weren’t possible to achieve on the windy coastline.

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Upcoming

Echoes in the Park

Julian has been commissioned to make a new geolocated sound work for Greenwich Park, in South London.

Echoes in the Park is a new project by the Centre for Sound & Image at Greenwich University and will run on a custom version of the echoes platform 

The app is scheduled to launch as part of SOUND/IMAGE 2024 Festival, London, UK

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Nearly Present - Installation in Preston, UK

Nearly Present will be exhibited at the Birley Artist Studios, Preston UK during November - December, 2024

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LOM+you

Julian is very pleased to have had a forthcoming project supported by LOM audio under their LOM+you initiative. 

Details coming soon…