charlotte arculus

dr charlotte arculus [drarculus]

 

I am an improviser, vocalist, electroacoustic musician, composer and VJ working at the intersections of electronics, acoustics, digital media, divination, incantation and magic. I play with found sound, voice, electronics, digital image in emergent, collaborative ways. Using aleatoric methods of chance and divination, I create music by making sonic rituals, rooted in time and place.  

 

My recordings are a kind of auditory medicine distilled from particular events such as new moons, solstices and equinoxes and particular places, pilgrimages and sites.  I hope they bring some the magic of the timespaces in which they are made to the listener’s ear. My sound works are not digitally streamed, they are carefully distributed.

 

My audiovisual work draws on the provisional and interchangeable nature of land and sea in East Anglia: Doggerland, the Yare valley marshes, medieval churches, ancient sites, old places.

 

I trained as a community musician in 1988 and have worked as a performer and socially engaged artist ever since. I have worked across multiple art forms, making street theatre, directing community projects and teaching improvisation.  

My academic work, which argues that young children's ways of knowing the world is a subjugated knowledge which lies at the heart of all adult creative endeavour, also proposes that music is a more-than-human phenomena.

More on my academic work: HERE PHD MagicAcorns

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This site is dedicated to my skills and outputs as a sound artist.

I feel my most alive when improvising music and activating my own ways of child-knowing music.