About

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Artist

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Bradley (born Iran) is an artist whose works use sound, or are silent pieces about sound.

For Bradley, sound is taken at its broadest comprehension, that is, as language, music or noise, with a focus on internal noise (interiority in the urban landscape) and sound that is beyond our hearing, but not our bodily perception (noise pollution, as per her doctorate research).

The works are compelling textile sculptures, and installations employing electronics or digital media and live immersive performance.

Bradley seeks to reposition the listener, in order to help question our sense of self and our place within both society and in nature as a whole.

Bradley’s work puts meaning over matter, employing materiality to convey the message.

Research interests are history, ethics and identity,

Bio

With a background in classical music Bradley obtained a B.A. in Italian language, literature and culture from University College London, and completed her post-graduate studies in music at the HP Slave Academy in Pune, India. After completing a City & Guilds in Journalism, Bradley expanded into digital sound, graphic score writing and radiophonics at experimental sound-arts station Resonance104.4FM, where she composed for and played with the Resonance Radio Orchestra, producing experimental broadcasts both live in the studio and on location. Locations include for example MIMA, UK, Art Dubai, UAE, Frieze Art Fair. Bradley has taught Journalism and Podcasting at university level, for the BBC Fast Train and community groups in UK, Ukraine and Tunisia. She is now pursuing a practice-based philosophy doctorate in sound art, at CRiSAP (The Centre for Research into Sound Arts Practice), LCC (London College of Communication), UAL (University of the Arts London).

  

Bradley’s writing is published in The Oxford Handbook of Sound Art, The Wire Magazine, Ibraaz online and more, while her “practice as research” continues to manifests as performance, radiophonics, broadcast, sculpture and installations.  The sculptures are totems, or signage, and employ found and domestic objects, textiles, electronics, speakers, and more. Works without sound are about sound.

Methodologies

Core methodologies revolve around experimentalism, deep listening as ‘alert living’ and exercises in modes of communication and reception. These experiments are made via traditional forms of performance, in-person discussion  as oral history, on air interviews, symposium and public signage. Bradley’s live performances stage inter-plays between the body, architecture, the dimensions of space (geography and scale), and history (linear and non linear time).

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Collaborations

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Bradley is a member of London noise-improv quartet Oscillatorial Binnage (2007-), whose album Agitations: Post-Electronic Noise released on Sub Rosa. Performances include Cafe Oto, Merge Bankside Festival, Wellcome Trust, Tate Modern, and Void Gallery, N. Ireland. As sound art duo Bradley-Weaver (2013-) with sound artist and archivist Christopher John Weaver, Bradley researches space and history using acoustics and performance. Bradley-Weaver released the limited edition artist vinyl Systems for a Score on The Vinyl Factory, UK, recorded during a live installation of a full-size recording studio in an art gallery, for their eponymous solo show at Tashkeel, Dubai. Their pieces are in Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Serkal Foundation, Lahore Biennial, Maraya Art Centre and private collections.

Bradley-Weaver’s commissions are exhibitions, performances, discursive events around the Persian Gulf and Levant; various Emirates in UAE, Bahrain, Lebanon, Kuwait, Pakistan, and The Media Majlis, Northwestern University, Qatar with six permanent sound installations at Al Leffayeh Wildlife Centre, Kalba Mountains, Sharjah.

Bradley-Weaver’s live, experimental music performances include Circular Landscapes an evolving series of performances commissioned by the Maraya Arts Centre, performed also at the Al Qasba Theatre Sharjah,. Their electro-acoustic piece An unMuted Serving about the politics of eating and mealtimes in the UAE was performed at Al Serkal Avenue Dubai, Sikka Art Fair Dubai, The Mine, Dubai, Re-Use Kuwait and Beirut Arts Centre. Other broadcast projects took place at the Void Gallery for the European Capital City of Culture, Londonderry, N. Ireland, and more.

Together Bradley-Weaver produced an experimental radio series “The Iron Speaks”, for the Sharjah Art Foundation on radio history in the UAE on Clocktower Radio, New York and on BBC Radio 4 Xtra, UK amongst other places.

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Solo work

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Broadcast

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Bradley has performed live-improvised music and composed graphic scores for both solo performer and for ensembles. These have been performed publicly as live broadcasts and performances e.g. London Architecture Biennale, Gasworks, Conway Hall, Southbank Centre and as commissioned solo artist at for exmaple the V&A Museum and South London Gallery, MOCA, UK online.

Presenting and producing the weekly radio programme Six Pillars on West Asian, North African arts and culture Bradley has live broadcast on UK’s experimental arts-radio station Resonance104.4fm since  2005. A vehicle and platform for a major research project, Six Pillars resulted in a considerable audio archive, events such as an international residency with five Iranian creatives visiting the UK and fundraisers for human rights organisations such as Amnesty International. For seven years Bradley’s experimental dance music radio show Free Lab Radio, positioned the dancer as the selector, investigating dance music as an expressive culture outside of industry definitions.

Bradley’s pop-up radio arts projects, such as Falgoosh Radio at the largest art fair in West Asia, Art Dubai, and Jaou Tunis, Tunisia, also ran as broadcasts live from Bradley’s commissioned programming and experimental sound art performance at South London Gallery for Welcome to Iraq collaborating with local Iranian and Iraqi artists and musicians. Radiophonic artwork solo commissions include a broadcast sound walk with an imagined narrative for MonaFoma 2018 at The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, and the live radio performance Petrosubjectivity for Radio Revolten, Halle, Germany.

Radiophonic works and research as broadcast were created by Bradley from the Frieze Art Fair ResonanceFM booth 2006-2010 inclusive, at the Serpentine Gallery for Ririkrit Tirivanija’s solo show and broadcast, and a UBS weekend at Tate Modern for Resonance104.4FM.

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Sculpture:

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Designed to provoke active listening, Bradley’s silent works about sound are sculptures as textiles, embroidery into found objects and lightboxes that invoke sound in the mind of the onlooker. Solo shows include The Mine Dubai, UAE, and group shows include Strange Cargo Gallery Folkestone, UK, The Art of Nuisance exhibition for Sisters of Perpetual Resistance London, for ResonanceFM at Raven Row London, The Great Imagining, Gavin Turk studios and Prince’s Galleries Shoreditch, London.

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Installation

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With an interest in materiality, Bradley uses electronics, sound objects and textiles to create works for solo and group shows to examine language, the act of memorising and perception within the context of space. Her work has appeared in group shows at Raven Row, London, Sight and Sound Festival, Folkestone and “wednesday” gallery (now Verdurin), London. In 2013 the leading body for sound art in the UK, Sound and Music commissioned Bradley with a 16mm film projector installation What Doesn’t Decay, 2013, employing projected home movies from 1970s Iran treated with crude oil, while anonymous interviews about 1970s design in US, UK and Iran play alongside on reel to reel tape.

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Composer and Improviser

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Resident Artist

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As duo Bradley-Weaver, residencies include the Lahore Biennial Foundation, Maraya Arts Centre, Sharjah, Al Serkal Avenue, Dubai, Sharjah Art Foundation, Beirut Arts Centre, the International Symposium of Electronica Art at Sheikh Zayed University, UAE, and Malja Studios, Bahrain. Solo Bradley has been resident at NYU in Abu Dhabi, and an Embedded Composer with by Sound and Music, UK’s leading body for sound art and composition, hosted at n.o.where studios (London).

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The Body As Listening Instrument

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Never a commercial DJ, Bradley followed her years-long experimental dance music radio series called Free Lab Radio on Resonance104.4FM with sets in venues such as The National Portrait Gallery, V&A Museum and ICA London, and international music festivals such as Glastonbury, Exit Festival, Serbia and Bestival, Isle of Wight. Bradley’s preferred setting is an arts crowd in non-monochrome venues, and she has played on moored boat installations e.g Venice Biennial for the Danish Pavilion, Emperor Tito’s repurposed ship in Croatia, Radio Beirut in Lebanon, and specialist events such as Cafe Oto’s Daphne Oram Symposium, Sharjah Biennial opening party, UAE, Art Dubai opening and London squat parties e.g. Area 21, Peckham.

On air Bradley has interviewed and hosted live guest DJ mixes from a gamut of great names in the arts such as: Charlie Dark, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Acid Man, Mr Scruff, Egyptian Lover, Patrick Forge, Ceephax Acid Crew more.