Jon…

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…is a sound recordist with an interest in both location and post-production audio. He has worked extensively on observational documentary and specialises in field and soundscape recording. Several of the films he has worked on have received international awards and are currently in worldwide distribution.

He is particularly intrigued by acoustic ecology and the dynamics of environments in which the natural and the industrial collide. He is currently involved with Kinokophone, an artist collective, who amongst other things record and communicate ideas through storytelling and soundscape composition. With an interest in themes related to marginalized diasporas and the way in which cultural identity is maintained through storytelling in historically illiterate communities, he has worked with several Roma communities in Serbia and the UK and was involved in a project addressing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage in the North West of England.

His last major project took him to India as a location sound recordist and collaborator on the documentary film The Lover and The Beloved: A Journey into Tantra with filmaker Andy Lawrence and writer Rajive McMullen.  He is now preparing for a new collaboration in Ecuador with a Manchester based photographer.

He is currently developing a number of collaborations with Kinokophone, architectspiders and several local communities, focusing on their relationship to sound. When not at work, he can often be found shuffling his feet and clicking his fingers to the music of Boban & Marko Markovic.

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