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gary-martin is a sound artist, designer, and electronic musician. shaped by perspectives on new materialism, access-first design, and bad environmentalism, his practice invites people to sense, feel, and reflect on their entanglement with complex systems. his work takes form as speculative tools and participatory sound environments.
for over a decade he has facilitated creative projects with young people across Wales, and partners like Cadw, The King's Trust, Shakespeare’s Globe, and Tate.
he is a studio resident at Pervasive Media Studio and a creative producer with pyka, where he develops accessible tools and spaces for participatory sound exploration. he is also a lecturer in the school of creative arts at the University of Gloucestershire where he manages releases on Parkland Records and his teaching focuses on critical practice in relation to networked cultures and political ecology.
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My paper about my practice research project 'Practicing Scales' was recently published in the International Journal of Creative Media Research. The project explores material entanglement through music performance and spatial audio composition, utilising the disassembly and reassembly of musical ‘objects’ as a method for investigation. Read and listen here.