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Philip has been working with field recordings, electronica and sampling to create immersive audio experiences for 20 years. His background in spatial audio includes the GPS soundscaping of the St Ives oral archives with art historian Jeanie Sinclair, music for Prototype’s groundbreaking binaural theatre work Whisper, and recording and producing various music for Linder’s “The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of Fame” project.
Recently he has returned to field recording and composition, with an immersive album recorded on a fishing boat at sea with singer Johny Lamb (Guardian Folk Album of the Month), followed by The Greensounds Project participant recordings in Apple’s Spatial Audio. Philip’s work has been recognised by Prix Ars Electronica, Bourges/IMEB, and Computer Space, with funding from AHRC, ACE, RIS, Channel 4, Frieze Art Fair, Aesthetica/Audible and UKRI.
After participating in the AHRC-funded project ‘Online Orchestra’ as a named researcher, Philip is currently working on a funded project with Dr Alice Goodenough of the Countryside and Community Research Institute.
Project ‘Greensounds’ seeks to better understand links between wellness, policy, and listening through participant workshops in forestscapes, and immersive audio. Philip is also co-producing a film about the Greensounds Project with director Liberty Smith, which won Aesthetica Film Festival’s Listening Pitch in partnership with Audible, and this will premier in York, Winter 2024.
The Greensounds project has developed into a two year research project called SAGE, Sound, Ageing and Environment, funded by UKRI (£336,500 grant) and on which Philip is a Co-Investigator. The SAGE team have won a grant to host a British Academy Conference in autumn 2025, on the topic of Sound, Nature and Wellbeing in Ageing.
Philip will co-edit a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Creative Media Research on the topic of Immersive Audio Practices.
UoG also hosts the brilliant “Everyday is Spatial” immersive audio conference with conference lead Tim Land.
Philip runs the MSc in Music and Sound production, and supervises PhD candidates who are broadly interested in sound, composition, production, electronic music, field recording, or immersion. Email Philip at [email protected] for further information on the MSc or Phd study.
Project Greensounds (film), Co-Producer, sound recording, design, mixing. Winner of The Listening Pitch, a partnership between Aesthetica and Audible 2024
Still Every Year They Went (CD/download), Composition and production with Johny Lamb/Thirty Pounds of Bone. The Guardian Album of the Month: November 2019
High Days and Holidays (sound design), Lord Fairhaven’s Yacht exhibition, part of Every Encounter Counts (Outstanding Achievement Award, The National Trust) 2018
Cage Street Memorial – The Pilgrimage (CD, download), recording, audio production, and mixing for Carleen Anderson (Album in top 10 Albums of the year from WorldFM, nominated for inclusion in Gilles Peterson’s shortlist, nominated for JazzFM vocalist of the year in 2017) on Freestyle Records 2016
Hayle Churks App (iOS) awarded by the Collections Trust 2015
Second Prize at Computer Space 2011, in the Category Computer and Digital Music, Bulgaria 2011
Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2011, in the Category Digital Sound Arts and Music, Austria 2011
Lynchpin (5.1) awarded Prix Résidence at Bourges/Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique, France 2009
Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Competition 2008
Popular Music, Creative Music Technology, Sound and Music Production.
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