Audio Visualisations with Hattie Ball and PMNH
In this ongoing project, animated visuals by artist Hattie Ball react to sound created by Rose Bell, using field recordings and conversations captured with the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability and the Palestine Museum of Natural History
Recordings of ants, bats, frogs, landscapes and people intersect to examine interconnected resistence of native animals.
Sound reactive visuals created using TouchDesigner, peformed live at SAOM event, Avalon Cafe, Bermondsey.
Ant. 2
Ant triggering modular synthesis.
Recorded and filmed Sep 2024 at Tent of Nations- Palestinian land under persistent threat from Israeli state violence.
https://tentofnations.com/about-us/.
Bat. Bat echolocation signals triggering modular synthesis. Sounds collected from field recording trip with Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh from the Palestine Institute of Sustainability. August 2024, Occupied West Bank, Palestine.
https://www.palestinenature.org/
‘We Live With the Dead’ 2022 - ongoing
Pediveliger 2021. feat John Berger. Shown as screen projection as part of ‘Pause’ London, 2022
‘Ant walking across my lap’ 2023, Shown as Screen Projection as part of Group Show ‘Pause’, London 2022
Event Horizons. .
Event Horizon is an ongoing series of improvised sound compositions composed alongside conversations with people discussing irreversible moments of change.
Same thing over and over for five years. Mark from ‘Slab City’, CA discussing his decision to leave Colorado and move off grid to the harsh desert reaches of ‘Slab City’.
3-year-old Ferris - ‘We need the Forest’.
Third Ear pieces..
Borrowing from Pauline Oliveros’ practice of Quantum Listening and Theodore Reik’s psychoanalytic text ‘Listening with the Third Ear’, these. works were made working as an art therapist in a palliative care setting.
Shown at ‘Pause’ London 2022
Collaborations with writer Harry Denniston.
Rose regularly illustrates with friend and long-term collaborator Harry Denniston.
The two have worked on publications for Seam Editions together and write the comic ‘An Huge Ant’.
Seam Editions Illustrations (2016 - )
‘Diagrams of Cool’ 2014- ongoing
x = cool
y = time
3 out of 56 ‘Diagrams of Cool’ Exhibited Chelsea, London, 2014. Rose Interviews people asking them to plot pivotal moments in their lives when they have gone up or down in their own understanding of being ‘cool’. Recipient of the Rosalie Schweiker award and featured in Wired Magazine.
Linear X' 2019,
A selection of drawings and figures made from dancing whilst listening to Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads.
rose @ Wonder Cabinet /Radio Alhara for Sounds of Places Festival, Bethlehem. 2024
