Joseph Young is an artist creating soundwalks, performances, site-specific projects, gallery and museum installations, films and publications. He is a specialist in the binaural field recording technique, and a self-confessed Sonic Hauntologist. Joseph has exhibited and performed at major institutions and project spaces in the UK, Europe, Asia and USA. In recent years, he has…
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I am delighted to share a bit more about my latest work, Sounding Peace. The project builds on an earlier Arts Council England funded R&D project, Soldier Stories. In 2023, we interviewed a small group of female veterans to talk about peace and peace-keeping culminating in a test soundtrail What is the Sound of Peace?,...
24.2.2025 17:23Sounding Peace (2025)It’s always lovely when your work gets positive feedback and airplay. On Feb 12th, the long-running New Sounds show on WNYC Public Radio in New York broadcast an episode focusing on Sonic Hauntology. Have a listen, as host John Schaefer plays excerpts from the album Sonic Hauntings in A Big House and outlines some of the ideas...
13.2.2025 18:36Sonic hauntings on the radioThis week sees the release of a new vinyl album on Farpoint Recordings, Sonic Hauntings in a Big House. The work is a limited edition of 250 copies, plus artist proofs. The album emerged out of a practice-based PhD in Ireland, in which I investigated the archives of a historic house in Bray, County Wicklow,...
2.12.2024 13:22Sonic Hauntings in A Big House (2024)It’s always nice when your work is recognised and acknowledged in some way, especially when you’re not expecting it! I am happy to announce that I have been shortlisted for the annual Sound Walk September Award, hosted by Walk Listen Create. The nomination comes for my audio paper Soundwalking. Listening and Contested Histories which I...
4.11.2024 17:09Nominated for #SWS24 AwardsI’m excited to announce a new project that I’ve been working on in Berlin. First of all, some background – the two live shows and soundwalk that are featured below are part of a bigger project that I’ve been helping to co-curate – Anima Mundi #5. The whole project has been pulled together by the...
1.9.2024 13:21Anima Mundi #5, Berlin (2024)Tomorrow, at Watts Gallery & Artists Village the Edges project enters its final phase with the opening of a collaborative international exhibition of sound and ceramics, featuring artists from Ireland and Estonia. Edges began with a residency and exhibition, Peripheries at The Ceramic House in April-May 2022 and continued last summer with a residency at...
12.7.2024 11:20Edges, Watts Gallery (2024)From September 2023 – February 2024, I spent time researching and developing a new project investigating the creation of digital peace monuments in public spaces, supported by a DYCP award from Arts Council England. As part of this, with help from my producers Harry Ross and Helen Scarlett O’Neill (pictured above), I interviewed a small...
24.5.2024 12:43Soldier Stories – a new aur(e)alityI was recently interviewed by Vanessa Noonan for the flagship ‘Culture File’ strand on RTÉ Lyric FM about my hauntological soundtrail The Ancestors. You can listen here or on Soundcloud (below). artofnoises · Radio interview ‘The Ancestors’ on RTÉ Lyric FM
17.5.2024 10:08‘The Ancestors’ on RTÉ Lyric FM[…] https://artofnoises.com/2024/04/10/mapping-the-ancestors […]
15.4.2024 13:45Comment on Mapping the Ancestors (2024) by Joseph Young – Mapping the Ancestors – Sound Arts UK[…] A2 foldout map was designed to accompany The Ancestors a geo-located hauntological soundtrail installed at Killruddery, and created as part of my PhD […]
15.4.2024 13:45Comment on The Ancestors (2024) by Joseph Young – Mapping the Ancestors – Sound Arts UK[…] A2 foldout map was designed to accompany The Ancestors a geo-located hauntological soundtrail installed at Killruddery, and created as part of my PhD […]
10.4.2024 15:22Comment on The Ancestors (2024) by Mapping the Ancestors – Joseph Young :: ArtistOn 4th April 2024, my new publication Mapping the Ancestors was launched in The Orangery at Killruddery House & Gardens in Bray, Ireland. The A2 foldout map was designed to accompany The Ancestors, a geo-located hauntological soundtrail installed at Killruddery, and created as part of my PhD research, ‘Killruddery: Listening to the Archive’. Its design and publication was...
10.4.2024 15:22Mapping the Ancestors (2024)[…] https://artofnoises.com/2024/02/09/edges-wac-2024 […]
13.2.2024 11:21Comment on Edges, Wexford Arts Centre (2024) by Edges: An International Exhibition of Sound and Ceramics – Sound Arts UK[…] third residency took place at Watts Gallery & Artist Village, Surrey (Oct-Dec 2023), the former home of celebrated artist couple, George Frederic and Mary […]
9.2.2024 16:06Comment on Artists-in-Residence Watts Gallery by Edges WAC (2024) – Joseph Young : ArtistWexford Arts Centre 20th February – 21 March (open Tues-Sat) Opening event 17th February, 3pm, with performances by myself and Suzanne Walsh, everyone welcome! Produced by artist-curators Kay Aplin & Joseph Young of The Ceramic House (UK) in partnership with Irish curator & sound artist Richard Carr, Edges explores ceramics and sound art practice through...
9.2.2024 16:06Edges, Wexford Arts Centre (2024)[…] is on tour again, this time for its first iteration outside of Ireland. SLEEPERTOWN is a series of sound interventions created by 15 international artists, composers and musicians. […]
25.7.2023 10:45Comment on Circa Regna Tonat (2020) by SLEEPERTOWN in Italy – Joseph Young : Artist[…] Make Futurism Great Again (2018) […]
5.4.2023 16:29Comment on Make Futurism Great Again! (2018) by Follow me on Bandcamp – Joseph Young : Artist[…] second is the book and digital album Now That’s What I call Neo Futurism published as part of Make Futurism […]
5.4.2023 16:29Comment on Now That’s What I Call Neo-Futurism (2018) by Follow me on Bandcamp – Joseph Young : Artist[…] Make Futurism Great Again (2018) […]
9.3.2023 13:51Comment on Make Futurism Great Again! (2018) by ofnoises.art – Joseph Young : Artist[…] essays “Walk This Place”, created for The Ancestors was published intially as part of A Manual for Rematerialisation published by the Creative Futures Academy in Ireland and exhibited at the Dublin Art Book Fair […]
12.12.2022 14:08Comment on A Manual for Rematerialisation (2021) by Killruddery: Listening to the Archive – Joseph Young : Artist