Paper Dialogues Podcast

Jack Chown is a Jersey-born producer and composer now working in London. Having recently graduated from the University of Oxford and Abbey Road Institute, he now splits his time between studio-work and creating the ambient work you here today under the moniker 'TESTPRESS'. The soundscape works as a whole but within the 'Paper Dialogues' Exhibition space it has been dispersed around the room between eight sets of speakers - in reference to the dragon and his seven eggs. As you move around the room, the soundscape will also evolve. The temporality of this experience is twofold. Linearly, there are eight sections of music where every few minutes, a different sonic feature is pushed to the forefront. Spatially, these sonic elements occur simultaneously as sound objects, meaning that no two exhibition-goers will have the same experience of the whole soundscape. In this space sound is shaped and, as with light or colour, can be experienced from any direction and in any order. The piano at the core of the piece