FOLD STUDIO RESIDENCY
3-Month Artist Residency • Live Performance • Spatial Sound Research
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A CLUB BECOMES A LABORATORY?
Selected for FOLD's inaugural Studio Residency, I spent three months developing a new artistic methodology centred on spatial listening, embodied composition and live performance.
Working inside one of the UK's most respected sound systems, the residency became an opportunity to rethink composition beyond headphones, exploring how movement, architecture and low-frequency sound shape perception.
Rather than treating the club as a venue, I approached it as a research environment—testing how listening itself can become a compositional material and laying the foundations for future installation and multidisciplinary work.
RESIDENCY
FOLD London
Studio Residency (2026)
Research & Development
RESEARCH
The residency explored intersections between:
spatial listening
sound system architecture
embodied perception
movement through space
live composition
installation practice
process
Throughout the residency I developed approaches to:
composing for large sound systems
spatial pacing and dynamic restraint
low-frequency architecture
embodied listening
live iterative performance
The work shifted away from linear composition towards designing environments that audiences physically move through.
output
The residency established a new spatial practice integrating live performance, installation thinking and research-led composition.
It also initiated collaborations across sound, choreography and visual practice, forming the foundation for future multidisciplinary works.
Reflection
Rather than seeing sound as something performed to an audience, the residency reframed listening as something experienced with the body.
This became a turning point in my practice, directly informing TE// THE MOUNTA//S and the installation methodologies proposed through The Architecture of Listening.