I am very honoured to have my work released alongside world renowned field recording artist such as Jana Winedern and Jez Riley.My is album released on the excellent record label PRESQUE TOUT France https://presquetout.bandcamp.com/album/cabilla-bodmin-cornwall-uk-08-19-2024-12-am 

The recording you can listen to above was made during a sleepless night I had recording a larger field study I outline below…

I stayed in accommodation with nearby Cabilia woods working with Joanna Vestey recording the woods sonically and photographically for 3 days and 2 nights. We worked alongside immersed in the rare Temperate Rainforest and a diverse range of plant species, and multitudinous life forms. It is also an official ancient oak woodland – defined as ‘an area of land where there has been a continuous cover of trees since 1600’, which currently makes up only 2% of British woodland. I recorded this soundscape after a day of forest immersion. where time is fluid and the boundary between natural and artificial soundscapes has dissolved. The wind outside howls, carrying with it the distorted echoes of past lives. Rain beats down on a metal carport, each drop a resonant note in an endless percussive loop. The rhythmic drip of water from drain pipes creates a syncopated counterpoint, an accidental orchestra of liquid time. Bird calls filter through the air dampened by the rain, their melodies glitching and warping in time with the soft ticking of an analogue clock inside a room—a relic of human timekeeping. The clock ticks with a mechanical precision, yet it feels like it’s breathing, in sync with the world outside. Each sound blends into the next, creating a hauntingly beautiful audio tapestry that blurs the line between organic and synthetic, past and future, chaos and order. It’s as if the world has become a vast, interconnected sound installation, where every element—natural or manufactured—plays a role in a complex, ever-evolving sonic ecosystem. The sounds are familiar yet alien, comforting yet unsettling, a reminder of a world where the boundaries of time and nature have long since dissolved. 

 Microphones: 3Dio Binaural microphones, Lom Usi Pro
Recorder: Zoom F3 with Sound Devices 302 mixer

Hello,welcome to my new blog where you will find my sonic adventures with field recording,music compositions and  extended listening practices to enable non- anthropocentric readings of  my experimental practice research methods include multi-sensory  technological methods of observation, employing field recordings, VHF (Very high frequency), radio waves, Geiger counters, textual responses. 

My sound practice is about deep atument to more than human worlds in natural and urban settings, with a focus on micro listening with specialist microphones to the earth and its struggling ecosystems in times of climate change.

I am multi-award-winning artist researcher and module leader for MA photography at Plymouth University UK, I have  presented my work at International and National symposia and have exhibited and published widely and has a forthcoming book on speculative field studies at Goonhilly Downs SSSI UK.

 My work in sound has been broadcasted on Radio 3 Mixing it London (UK) and Resonance FM London (UK).Most recently Migration Sounds Oxford University UK,Sites and Memory Project and working with The Freshwater Sounds Archive in collaboration with Dr Jack Greenhalgh Canada Foundation for Innovation.  

Research Groups 

ECO ECHO ART COLLECTIVE I am part  of this international group of artists deeply concerned with the well-being of our planet beyond human needs. Our concerns are rooted in the issue of climate change and the impact of anthropogenic activities on the world.https://ecoechoartcollective.com/

Test Space: Expositions of practice led research group Falmouth University and University of Plymouth.

More-Than-HumanBook Club Barbican library London/online.
 APHE: Association for Photography in Higher Education.

Wildlife Sound Recording Society.

Welcome to a journey beyond the ordinary, where the rich soundscape of the natural world and discord of human noise unfolds in its full, intricate beauty. This blog delves into my explorations of more-than-human worlds, capturing the profound soundscapes of nature through the art of field recording. Utilizing deep and quantum listening techniques, I extend traditional recording practices to reveal the inaudible umwelts of organisms and the subtle whispers of natural elements. Through speculative field notes and immersive audio experiences, join me in uncovering the hidden layers of our planet’s acoustic environment, where every rustle, call, and deep vibrartions  tells a story of the interconnected web of life.

My field recordings can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/jamiehouse for an example of this microlistening to hidden sounds beyond our limited human perception,have a listen to a recording I done of ancient trees at a temperate rainforest on Dartmoor.

https://soundcloud.com/jamiehouse/internal-sounds-of-a-tree

A night walk in a temperate forest in Dartmoor Devon UK.
Close your eyes and take a sonic journey of deep earthly time with this ancient tree that’s been a silent witness to layers of history. The sounds you hear are after a warm day are tiny popping that is the sound of water passing through the cells of the xylem tubes and cavitating as it mixes with air on its way upwards.

I have wanted to capture for years what goes on behind the bark of a tree,I spent hours with this ancient trees at night to escape as much human noise as possible.Using highly sensitive contact microphones and hydrophones,handmade pre-amps and probes to make audible the inner workings of trees. I first heard the moss layers of the bark as it hydrated and dehydrated then the rumble of the tree moving and the popping of the water,and the odd plane going past.

Watch this space for some very exciting field trips and news coming very soon!

This will be a ongoing space for experimentation and work in progress.