The Carry Principle

This is a blog documenting my PhD research. It's a kind of diary, a collection of mobile media studies, compositions and situations. Everything follows The Carry Principle – using devices that are small, personal, multifunctional, battery-powered and always on.

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Dawn on contact mic and slinky. Another brilliant session with @intoart_uk during their visit to Teesside, looking at different ways to incorporate sound into their arts practice.

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Gathering up the 20 mini speakers after the HaPenny Soundwalk in Saltburn-by-the-Sea

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A lot of nervous energy presenting my research into headphonics at https://jim2023.sciencesconf.org/ 

Photo by Atau Tanaka

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Never mind the Balearics: Ibiza icons A Man Called Adam tune into Teesside

They are the chillout masters famed for their blissful, sun-dappled sound. So why have the dance duo made an album inspired by the abandoned

Another side to my music practice, as one half of A Man Called Adam.

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Publications MusiqueS & Interdisciplinarité | Collegium Musicæ de l'Alliance Sorbonne Université

It’s taken a while, but the Sorbonne University’s Publication MusiqueS & Interdisciplinarité is finally out. A huge resource, my article on the mobile musician is page 345.

Cela a pris du temps, mais la publication MusiqueS & Interdisciplinarité de l'Université de la Sorbonne est enfin sortie. Mon article sur le musicien mobile se trouve à la page 345.

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My research article  – Vers un Modèle Praticien de la Musique Mobile (Towards a Practitioner Model of Mobile Music) – is to be published as a follow up to the conference 'Actes des Rencontres Nationales sur les Recherches en Musique', Sorbonne University, Paris.

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Last day of a summer’s nomad sessions. Listening back to some of the recordings and a chiffchaff begins to join in.

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J'ai le plaisir d'avoir Steve Jones de A Man Called Adam en DJ guest pour une Disco Symphony  18h/19h Patrick Vidal ...Tribute to Glenn Rivera ReStructure Mix19h/20H Steve Jones... Disco Symphony

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A rough recording on my phone, processing the sound on the sea through a group of apps on my trusty old iPad #seatechno

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Testing the old Carry Principle system and it still works. Using the sound of the sea to make #seatechno https://www.instagram.com/p/CP-uD--qkcT/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I found this early attempt at electro-acoustic composition, clang clack buzz, to play along with the hawk hovering video. 

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Hawk, hovering. An iphone slowmo study.

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Presenting the Carry Principle at Rencontres Nationales sur les Recherches en Musique: https://recenmus.sciencesconf.org/

My thesis is now available on DMU’s Open Research Archive: https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19540

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The Forest: iPhone slo-mo study. 

16 Aug 2020

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Another repost, February 2015. Navigating the warren of passageways and stairs between Châtelet and Les Halles. 

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Repost from summer 2014, Paris.

This video marks the beginning of a period of sustained investigations to develop a workable and repeatable technique for headphonic performance. Paris at the best of times is a noisy, sometimes chaotic place, and this video captures some of the sense of bewilderment felt as I gave myself up to the movement of the streets. I was using a GoPro 3+ camera for post-performance analysis, but reflecting on the recorded material it seemed that the least interesting aspect was the iPad screen interaction. What was more fascinating was observing people in the streets, how they negotiate shared spaces, sitting, standing or walking.

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Almost six years to the day that I began using a GoPro to document mobile SoundWalking on the metro, dated 17/07/14. Already I was asking: “Is this a covert performance? Doesn’t anyone notice?”

Watching back the video today, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems like another world.