WCA #416 with Jez riley French - Listening Below the Surface, Contact Mics and Hydrophones, Traces, Swapping Cassettes, and Music Shop Blokes

My guest is Sound Artist Jez riley French. Jez is widely regarded as having played a pivotal role in expanding the use of contact microphones, hydrophones, electromagnetic coils, ultrasonic detectors, geophones, and VLF receivers in the sound arts, sound design (for the screen, theatre, and radio), and music in a wide range of contexts. His work has included commissions and performances for

Tate Modern (UK)

The Whitworth (UK)

Paradise Air (Japan)

MoT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan)

Spikersuppa Lydgalleri, Oslo (Norway)

Baltic (UK)

Steklenik (Slovenia)

Museo Reina Sofia (Spain)

Catalyst Arts (N. Ireland)

Artisphere (USA)

Harpa (Iceland)

Mengi (Iceland)

The Wired Lab (Australia)

Mullae Art Space (Korea)

q-02 (Belgium)

In this episode, we discuss

Open Space of Yorkshire

New Wave and Punk

Sharp Recorder

Fascination with Listening

Sexism in Music

Discovering Contact Mics and Hydrophones

Listening Below the Surface

Pre-Internet Research

Music Shop Blokes

Swapping Cassettes

Feeling Right to Press Record

Traces

Setting up a Distribution Company

Durational Listening

The Emotion of Listening

Audio Memory

Recording Mediums

Sound Art

Making a Living

Field Recording Approaches

There Are No Rules

Influences

Matt's Rant: Holiday Reset Links and Show Notes

Jez's Website

Pheobe riley Law

Credits

Guest: Jex riley French

Host: Matt Boudreau

Engineer: Matt Boudreau

Producer: Matt Boudreau

Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau

WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell

Announcer: Chuck Smith