Andrew Stones

 

Andrew Stones is a multi-disciplinary artist, based in the north of England. His work is informed by debates around ecology and human overreach, and Englishness.

Stones's sound and musical works share features with musique concrète, electro-acoustic composition, classical minimalism, and various folk and popular music forms. His interests and influences extend to field recording, avant-garde experimentation and tech-led music, as well as pre-industrial and ritual, devotional music.

Stones's compositions draw on the natural playing-out of physical phenomena in time, and the musicality of all kinds of materials in motion, often matching a singular image or idea (a wave, a helicopter, the traverse of an interior or a terrain) with a structural rule (to use only metal objects, or a particular set of numbers).

Stones's sound palette includes field recordings and self-created musical instruments. His working method combines the physical and the digital, expressive and mechanically-actuated playing, the musically-familiar (piano, harmonium, struck/bowed strings) and the strange (feathers, machines, voices from history).

Andrew Stones became associated with the European video art scene in the 1980s, gravitating towards mixed-media installation, often with multi-channel audio. Since that time he has exhibited solo, in the partnership Frances Hegarty & Andrew Stones, and in other public and collaborative settings. His concentration on standalone sound and musical works has intensified since the mid-2010s.

Please see the on-site catalogue for detailed information on individual Andrew Stones releases.

 

OFF-SITE LINKS - Andrew Stones

SPOTIFY

APPLE MUSIC (UK)

AMAZON MUSIC (UK)

BANDCAMP

SOUNDCLOUD

BRIGHTER.ORG - artist's hub