Mali

I’m going to be speaking and holding a drop-in workshop at The Big Thing 2025 - come and join me on Wednesday 11th June at 11:10am at The Great Victoria Hotel, Bradford ✨ We’ll be exploring creative alternative microphones to discover hidden sound worlds. You can expect to be guided in how to use and experiment with contact mics, hydrophones and electromagnetic pickups. Participants can experience how these microphones capture vibrations and frequencies that are normally inaudible to the human ear. You might discover the creaks and crackles within everyday objects, the rumbles of movement under water or the concealed hums of electronic devices. This informal session is perfect for all ages and will be an exploratory session inviting you to be curious, experiment and play. 🫧⚡️🕳👂 #TheBigThing #ImmersiveArtsUK

Niche Frequencies is a composition and system designed to be played with like an instrument. It is a system of rules that constantly shift and evolve so that the same set of sounds never repeat. When playing with the physical device the audience become a collaborator and performer of the system by generating random frequencies, reversing sounds and triggering sets of rules that control effects. #cycling74 #maxmsp #m5stickcplus #generativeart

Drone Resonator is a cross over between an instrument, composition and a system. Ten resonating frequencies (out of a possible 20) flow in and out of each other and the audience can play with the device to send the morphing drones through feedback and delays. The underlying theme of this piece is influenced by the @longtime_project to explore stretching timeframes. There are certain formations of sounds you won’t be able to hear yet because they are programmed to exist in the future as the frequencies change key as the seasons change. #cycling74 #maxmsp #m5stickcplus #generativeart

This project is about building a device that doesn’t work in the way you might expect. It is a series of three instruments (this term is used loosely) and a single one is chosen at midnight lasting for 24 hours. They are each generative because there is organised variety to the formations of sounds throughout differing periods of time. There is no right or wrong way to engage, inviting you to experiment and learn through playing. By playing with the device, you become part of a network — alongside software, hardware and real-time data (each controlling subtle elements of the soundscape) — to collaboratively craft changes in sound with physical movement, play and curiosity. Underpinning the work is a theme of exploring our relationship to time when we live in a fast-paced world that demands so much from our time. So this work is a gentle resistance to that in some way, offering a chance to step out from the hustle and bustle of a daily life. The ambient sound design is influenced by this, experimenting with ways to stop being clockwork about time and letting it melt away. The three instruments are: 1. Elastic Band Granulator: A granular synthesiser that changes depending on the speed of your movements as well as the transition from night to day (WIP) 2. Drone Resonator: A series of 10 resonant oscillators that morph in and out of each other, changing key as the seasons change 3. Niche Frequencies: A composition that invites you to play in between frequencies #cycling74 #maxmsp #m5stickcplus #generativeart

Action shot with the resonant sound wall I made for Play Studio at Tate Britain earlier this summer. 📸 by @pearlxcook

This month I installed a new piece of work at the Tate Britain Play Studio - a place for children and families to experiment, collaborate and create. I made an interactive and resonant sound wall - so you can hear sounds and feel them too. It contains 10 different themed playlists of sounds which are inspired by the new display collection such as: a creaking ship from Turner’s stormy sea paintings (from above and below the water), street photography of children playing, a painting of morning dew raindrops and glowing moons with musical wind from a range of of atmospheric landscape paintings. When you trigger a sound, a random sample is selected from a playlist so there is a slight variation every time to what you hear and feel. These all form a tapestry of music/noise/sounds by meshing various artworks from the gallery together. It’s been cool to hear stories of kids playing and mixing up their own sound pieces and that adults have been using it as well as children! Loved working on this. Big thanks to @jeanciaratormey @katherinekatherineeves @gina.tsang Clara and everyone else at the Tate’s early years and families team, engagement assistants and all the technicians who helped this come together. Technology by @bareconductive

Nearly one year since the exhibition @paulinakolar @nur.rovira and I held at our home in Liverpool. Home is where the art is pt. 3. Lots of fun squeezing 25 artists’ work into all the corners of our flat. With food, drinks and a DJ on the opening evening, performances and an artist talk on the closing afternoon. 2 / 2 Ta @rachel_rigby_ for providing pics

Nearly one year since the exhibition @paulinakolar @nur.rovira and I held at our home in Liverpool. Home is where the art is pt. 3. Lots of fun squeezing 25 artists’ work into all the corners of our flat. With food, drinks and a DJ on the opening evening, performances and an artist talk on the closing afternoon. 1 / 2 Ta @rachel_rigby_ for providing pics

Opening Friday 8th July, 7:30pm BYOB, we'll serve up food, DJ from 11pm Saturday 9th July, 12pm - 6pm Appointment only* Sunday 10th July, 12pm - 6pm, with performances and an artist talk from 4:30pm Appointment only until 4:30pm @paulinakolar - performance writing Mali Draper - spatial sound design performance @mrkirks - Artist talk on Michael’s recent photography project with Bramley Moore FC *DM me to let us know if you’re coming or need location details 🥳

Please come along 🥳 event details below. Message for location details. 6 years ago, Mali Draper hosted HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS at her home in Lancaster, as part of the student art collective Up North Arts. The idea was simple, instead of placing work into a gallery, work moved in with each other for a weekend, fitting into the pockets and corners of a home. We made the most out of the space we had and visitors interacted with art in a more intimate way. But maybe best of all, we sat together and we talked about it. A year later, Paula Kolar hosted HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS (Pt.2) with her flatmates in their shared house in Lancaster. Now, long after graduating and moving away, HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS (PT3) is taking place in Mali, Paula, and Núria’s shared flat in Liverpool, continuing this UNA tradition. This weekend is bittersweet, we are soon moving out of this flat, so join us on Friday the 8th of July for an opening night (BYOB, and food served up by Mali, Paula and Nuria) and a closing event with live performances on Sunday the 10th.

4 years ❤️ @carl_dyer

‘Warm up the palms of your hands’ workshop today by @annahortoncremin Emily Warner and Julia Calver at @metalliverpool I needed this today too!