Wil Bolton

I am an artist working predominantly with sound. My work combines electronic tones with digitally processed acoustic sounds including field recordings and musical instruments. I have produced several site-specific commissions and am particularly interested in the resonance of spaces, their history and atmosphere, and wider notions of place and memory.

Recent works include: Treatments and Textures, a DJ mix of atmospheric textural ambient and electroacoustic tracks for Tate Liverpool’s Sculpture Remixed collection display; Binary, a commission for the National Trust manor house Oxburgh Hall, in which the venue’s Victorian wallpaper was converted into sound; Chimes for a Wall Drawing, a live performance on processed chime bars, guitar and sine waves which took Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #1136 as an inspiration and graphic score; Quay Tones, an audiovisual installation which explored the history and atmosphere of the Middle Ages trading port King’s Lynn through images focusing on weathered fragments of architecture and scenery and processed recordings of baroque harpsichord tones and field recordings.