Axel Drioli

Axel Drioli is a Director, Wildlife Sound Recordist and Spatial Audio designer, founder of Sounding Wild and Spatial Audio Labs.

​His main interest is wildlife sound and conservation, and how to create compelling experiences to bring awareness about the natural world. Axel has been researching and exploring the concepts of Soundscape Ecology, Ecoacoustics and Bioacoustic, creating immersive stories combining his innovative audio approaches and passion for nature and animal behaviour.

Axel directed the piece ‘Life On The Edge VR’ #LOTE, a multi-delivery platform immersive experience about ex-poachers, rangers and the wildlife from the Cambodian rainforest is part of the official 2020 EarthXR selection, Wildlife Conservation Film Festival, San Pedro Film Festival and it has been finalist of the Virtual Noise competition at SXSW 2020.

His recent work includes ‘My Garden of a Thousand Bees’ by director Martin Dohrn and Passion Pictures, ‘Auditorial’, a binaural audio experience about soundscape ecologist pioneer Bernie Krause by Google x The Guardian, a BBC Springwatch 2020 episode, ‘A Predicament of Pangolins’, ‘Big 5’, ‘Into The Himalayas’ finalist at #JacksonWild 2020, ‘Gorillapalooza’ 360 Video experiences produced by Habitat XR, the latter for The Ellen Fund, by Ellen DeGeneres, the last two available on the main VR platforms to watch.

Axel's work has also been shown at the Future of Storytelling Summit (NY, USA), Seattle Film Festival, Sheffield Doc Fest, United Nations HQ (Bonn, Germany), Unicef, Downing Street, Sky Ocean Rescue and more global platforms.

Kelly Buckley

 Kelly (artist moniker K-A-B) is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, music, the environment and storytelling, combining audio with visual arts and words. With a deep interest in how sound, nature, and place connect, she creates immersive projects which explore sonic and visual imprints. Her work spans music composition, sound design, experimental sound-art, visual art, and field recording, often with a focus on abstract or hidden rhythms and textures of the world around us. Alongside her artistic practice, Kelly leads workshops in creative sound composition and exploration, deep listening and sound mapping, helping participants engage with their surroundings and the environment in new and meaningful ways.  Kelly's website is K-A-B.NET 

Echoes in The Fossils - A project by Kelly Ann Buckley commissioned by Focal Point Gallery.

Med Selkies - a poem and sound design/music composition by Kelly Ann Buckley, which was an expansion of Echoes in the Fossils, shown on The Big Screen, Southend, at The Forum. 

Storm Reflections - A collective audio-visual piece produced by Kelly Ann Buckley using sound and visual clips gathered by the Contemporary Elders art group as part of DigiFest 2024 (commissioned by Focal Point Gallery).

Taking Care - a soundscape by Kelly Ann Buckley for Doctor of Fine Arts Ruth Kathryn Jones installation at UEL, Docklands.

The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another.

Frazer Merrick / CLIP

Alan Hockett

CLIP is an award-winning music social enterprise dedicated to empowering individuals and communities through innovative, hands-on musical experiences. By fostering creativity, inclusivity, and collaboration, CLIP offers unique opportunities for people of all backgrounds to explore sound, take creative risks, and develop new skills.

​From cutting-edge projects like building the Photon Smasher, a microphone for listening to light, to performing in unconventional spaces, CLIP helps participants unlock their potential and discover the joy of music-making. Recognised with accolades such as 'Sound of the Year 2022' and 'Maker Music Festival 2022', CLIP is committed to inspiring personal growth and building creative, connected communities through the power of music.

Website for Frazer.

Alan Hockett uses his artistic practice to explore marginal landscapes, peripheries, Edge lands. Areas always changing and evolving with industrial or social decline having fallen into disuse and dereliction and are now slowly being reclaimed by the forces of nature, or regenerated for social economic reasons.
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He strives to involve and engage the community that he’s creating work around whether its walking the Essex coastline using a baked bean tin, or capturing Jaywick, in its heyday as a holiday retreat using photographs, films and memories of its residents. 
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Alan Hockett is a Trustee of ‘Hadleigh Old Fire Station CIO’ and has over 10 years’ experience at evaluating projects like The River Runs Through Us an ACE funded project to local authority small grants scheme projects like Hadleigh Old Fire Station summer festival.

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Andrew Laws

Andrew Laws founded the yeseo.io SEO Agency and has been working in
​marketing for over 25 years.

When he's not in the office helping clients grow, he can be found in the studio or on stage, making very loud noises.

Andrew loves to talk about mindset, personal growth, business development, neurodiversity and odd music.

Matt Shenton

Photo by Dell Atreides

Matt Shenton is an experimental musician, sound artist and performer whose work explores rural landscapes (with a particular focus on the shifting morphology of rural working class soundscapes). His work also challenges how conceived notions of pastoral landscapes inform and influence ideas of national identity. 

His work performed under the moniker ‘there are no birds here’ uses manipulated field recordings, homemade instruments, music concrete, found objects and modified electronics to create textural explorations of timbre with instinctive, chance-based arrangements that mimic the rural soundscape.

Soundcloud and Instagram

Peter Harrap

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Peter Harrap is a British Romanian artist and curator. He is co-curator of Constable 250 with Emma Roodhouse of Christchurch Mansion.
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His exhibitions include Constable and Brighton at Brighton Museum (2017), John Constable Seeking Truth, Bucharest V&A partnership with Art Safari(2022) along with many other international exhibitions, engaging with the Tate, Royal Academy of Art, V&A,and  National Gallery.  He is currently working on a PhD at the George Enescu National University of the Arts Iasi România in partnership with UCL London. He is a Trustee of Ratiu LSE Ideas Romania. 

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