Mortimer Drewcontact@mortimerdrew.co.uk                            CV






Mort is a creative technician and sound artist working on live audio broadcasts, anti-hierarchical sound systems, and installations. Their practice explores ephemerality, activist radio, grief and displacement. Their work appears as broadcasts, workshops, publications, sound devices and performances.

Mort is a co-director of the artist cooperative Soundcamp and co-founder of Associació So (Sound Association) a new sound art collective based in Catalunya.
    


S AM FM
LINA Network
  • workshop, exhibition, residency, broadcast
  • 10-14 September 2024
  • transmitting live sounds from un-seen / less heard
  • spaces and situations. a collective radio experiment.
  • S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, CH
  • website  publication


Football Heaven
  • Sound 2024
  • installation
  • 2-20 September 2024
  • a re-staging of a radio broadcast from Hillsborough
  • football ground. DIY transmissions systems and micro
  • fm networks. 
  • LCB Depot, Leicester, UK


torpor
gravemere
  • composition, sound design
  • 15 November 2024
  • a 4 track, dark ambient/experimental debut ep
  • self released
  • website


Koidukoor
European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 main program
    workshop, residency, reveil broadcast 
  • 29 April-9 May 2024
  • live transmissions of dawn walks, a sound camp,
  • knowledge exchanges with Estonian Academy of Arts.
  • with MoKS, Mooste, EE
  • website  film


in residency with MoKS
streambox workshop with Estonian Academy of Arts students
streambox workshop with Mooste Youth centre attendees
live transmitting a dawn chorus walk
streambox in situ in Mooste at daybreak
Spree ~ Channelsea Radio Group
Cultural Bridge Fund, The Goethe Institue and Arts Council England


Meeting Place For Sounds
  • residency, broadcast, 
  • 16-20 January, 13-16 March 2023
  • young sound artist collective. prototyping and
  • experimenting with new modes of sonic experience,
  • knowledge production, decision-making processes and
  • social organization.
  • CLB Berlin, Berlin, DE, FLUCC, Vienna, AT
  • website 


L a g
  • workshop, residency, broadcast, 
  • 7-9 October 2022
  • an open radio studio, DIY microphone workshops,
  • 58 hrs of continuous live radio for Sonic Acts
  • HetHem, Zandam, NL
  • website