Selected work
Ocean Refuses No River
2025 - 2026
Audiovisual installation
Field recordings, electronic sound and moving image trace a descent from river to ocean and through its progressively deeper zones. The work considers movement through natural systems alongside the borders and structures humans impose upon them.
Sōphrosynē
2025
Audiovisual work
Biofeedback from a participant’s body modulates recorded voices in real time, shifting their pitch and blurring conventional gender markers. The work explores agency and control through the relationship between body, sound and technology.
Cache
2025
Sound installation / sculpture
A childhood cassette is digitised and stretched from minutes to the length of a human lifetime. Connected to an early experience of loss, the recording becomes a way of exploring memory, duration and what happens when something intimate is translated into digital information.
Keep it Locked
2025
Sound installation
An archived pirate radio broadcast recorded in London in 1996 is layered with live FM radio received in Berlin almost thirty years later. Bringing different times, places and technologies into the same space, the work considers communication, access and the systems that shape who gets to broadcast.
Transmission
2025
Sculpture
A functioning FM transmitter is housed within a sculpture drawing on the improvised transmission systems used by London pirate radio stations in the late 1990s. Physically capable of broadcasting but unable to be legally activated, the work holds the transmitter in a state of suspended potential.
Migration
2025
Sound work
Field recordings made while walking through Berlin and rural Scotland are layered into a continuous sound field, allowing differences in place, surface, weather and movement to shift into and out of recognition. The work considers how movement is experienced across territories, and how differently that movement can be understood.
Connect
© Denise Ross 2026