BIO
Musician, sound artist, organiser
Born: Oxford, UK
Current residence: Brighton, UK
Daniel W J Mackenzie produces work that explores various notions of listening to music and sound, combining composition, improvisation, non-musical sound and field recordings. Despite a broad range of tools and processes, there are consistencies in the nuances with which the work is constructed and presented, and the substantial presence of deep emotion and atmosphere.
As a sound artist he has been presented internationally, working with sound sculpture, multichannel sound, sound collage and conceptual visual art, in installations and exhibitions that refine the approaches towards noise, quietude and melody that define his released music. His artistic studies are driven by conceptual and academic investigations into the phenomenology of listening and engaging with sound and subtle stimuli.
Daniel is increasingly influenced by the globalisation of sound and the role it plays in forging connections, circumventing borders and transporting listeners. He also draws influence from notions of entropy and dissolution, mirroring a personal desire to elevate thought systems that refuse binaries and see categories and divisions as extremely malleable structures.
LINKS
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INTERVIEWS
Veil of Sound
NTS Radio
Lighthouse
ATTN
Vuorikaiku Sound Gallery - Helsinki
FBi Radio - Australia
Loop - Chile
M3
Futuresequence
Foxy Digitalis
RESIDENCIES
Jakkalsdans Farm, The Karoo, Northern Cape
South Africa, April 2017
OTHER PROJECTS
Plurals (improvising group)
Ekca Liena (solo alias)