Mort Drew is a sound artist working on flat listening and collective broadcasting through experimental ecological radio practices. For Listening Other·Wise, they will perform alongside the live audio feeds, mixing original compositions built from samples of previous live transmissions into the sounds from the field transmitters. Drew is interested in listening practices relating to empathy, developing connections to sites and environments that we may not pay particular attention to. Their listening practice has developed alongside their work building and working with live environmental sound transmission streamboxes with the artist cooperative, Soundcamp. Within the cooperative, they use the term flat listening to describe a considered anti-hierarchical approach to listening. Using stereo omnidirectional to transmit live audio, like those in the Thuringian Forest stream, we can listen in simultaneity to situations and sounds away from ourselves.

Biography

Mort Drew is a South London-based sound artist. Through residencies, exhibitions, and workshops, they create networks for sonic exchanges that challenge traditional broadcasting hierarchies using the live radio space as a conduit for anticolonial and anti-capitalist solidarities and strategies. Drew is the founder of TransActivist Radio Group and co-founder of Associació So, a new sound art collective based in Catalunya. They have developed works for Sonic Acts (NL), Radio AlHara (PS), SAM Swiss Architecture Museum (CH), Southbank Centre (UK), Amgueddfa Cymru (UK), FLUCC (AT), Cafe OTO (UK), and CLB Berlin (DE). Drew is currently codirector of the artist cooperative, Soundcamp.