The Sounds of the Silver Spider (2024)
The Sounds of the Silver Spider is an immersive sound project and short film created for Sound Diaries 2024, at Oxford Brookes University. I recorded the full process of creating a silver piece of jewellery using a variety of microphones and techniques, capturing the immersive auditory reactions within the production of the silver spider. This is a first of its kind experimental recording of the process of silversmithing.
The talk preceding the film discusses the use of local materials from the County Durham region, the political landscape of the region and the choice of materials relating to the history.
The film has been showcased at Oxford Brookes University (UK), De Keuken (NL), and Foldyard Gallery (UK).
Vault of Heaven (2023)
Vault of Heaven is the multimedia celestial progressive album created using the Mellotron's historic soundbanks to create an auditory world to the accompanying original collage artwork.
The album was released on The Crystal Cabinet December 2023 in limited edition numbers on cassette with matching art book.
Listen: https://thecrystalcabinet.bandcamp.com/album/vault-of-heaven
Exhibitions: Salon Gallery, Margate 2023 (UK) Foldyard Gallery, Berwick Upon Tweed 2024 (UK)
Nuclear Holocaust (2015)
The auditory exploration with just a guitar and a knife into the cessation of all nuance and the sonic obliteration that is attributed to chemical warfare. The research into advances in anatomical and chemical weaponry and its uses in the 21st century lead to the collected 10 track album where all sense of chaos is finally lifted into faint melody. Representing what forms and distills after obliteration?
Nuclear Holocaust was initially released on handmade cassette copies and distributed at gigs over a 4 year period before digital release. The final handmade copy is currently housed in the British Library.
https://lucyvalentinemusic.bandcamp.com/album/nuclear-holocaust