Mark Peter Wright (born 1979) is a British sound artist who works with field recording and phonography. "His work addresses listening and the environment and seeks to amplify, illuminate and interrogate notions of place and experience."[1]

He studied at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London and Manchester Metropolitan University and has exhibited and broadcast works internationally including Flat Time House,[2] London, Barbican Centre, London, Queen Elisabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London, Royal Opera House, London, and on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM.

In 2009 Wright was awarded the BASCA British Composer Award in Sonic Art for his work A Quiet Reverie[3] an "audio exploration of site, time, perception and landscape" focused upon the monastic abbeys in North Yorkshire.[4]

Wright is also founder and editor of Ear Room, an online publication for developing critical discourse and debate on the creative, and explorative use of sound in artistic practice, and including interviews with relevant contributors to sound arts such as Hildegard Westerkamp and Janek Schaefer.[5]

Recent work includes Where Once We Walked[6] a series of five compositions created in collaboration with Trevor Avery and Chris Atkins from the arts charity Another Space[7][8] to reflect the lives of the Windermere Boys, several hundred orphaned Jewish boys sent to the Lake District to recover from their internment in Auschwitz.[9] He is currently working on an ongoing series of work about the reclaimed land of South Gare[10][11] in North Yorkshire where he spent his childhood.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Introducing Ear Room". soundandmusic.org. 2 November 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Flat Time I-Io / The John Latham Foundation and Archive". Flattimeho.org.uk. 1 August 2010. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "Radio 3 – British Composer Awards". BBC. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "A Quiet Reverie". A-quiet-reverie.blogspot.com. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  5. ↑ "Ear Room". Sound and Music. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "Arts ahead / Arts / Culture / Home – Morning Star". Morningstaronline.co.uk. 16 September 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  7. ↑ "The inspiring story of how Windermere helped 300 Jewish children fleeing the Nazis | Lancashire Life". Lancashire.greatbritishlife.co.uk. 25 August 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  8. ↑ "The Lake District Holocaust Project". Anotherspace.org.uk. Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  9. ↑ "Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | Express Yourself :: Escape to Windermere". Express.co.uk. 3 April 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  10. ↑ Art Monthly 362: Dec–Jan 12–13 Art Monthly, 362 (December 2012 – January 2013).
  11. ↑ The Wire – Issue 347 The Wire, 347 (January 2013).
  12. ↑ http://issuu.com/musicworksmagazine/docs/issue114_preview?mode=window&backgroundColor=#222222Music Works Magazine, 114 (Winter 2012).

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