For gat coedmor Whitehead began to make binaural field recordings on his daily cycle ride to his studio. Drawn to field gateways along the route, he began to use these gates as frameworks in which to make recordings of the surroundings, animals and weather. The gates themselves installed with microphones, augment and alter the sensitivity of the recordings and these are then treated as landscapes in which Barnaby Oliver adds accompaniment.

Whitehead and Oliver have collaborated remotely for many years now. Originally using the postal service as a means to exchange material between their relative geographical locations, they have now developed an online process of sharing and altering materials as part of a long term commitment. In 2010 they developed PINGS, a year long process of live exchange from their respective local rivers, using the web as an interface for wide public engagement and as means to accumulate and archive performance material.

In the 90‘s they would meet regularly to perform together and construct spaces with shared materials. They now rarely meet in person and location and concentrate instead on a process of working and responding with an emphasis on materiality and a constant cycle of alteration. Here the work, though referencing discrete locations, becomes so altered that it appears to hover between places…