“This is a treat for for those exploring their autonomous sensory meridian response.”
“This is an active listen, for both highs, lows, and a variety of cascading microsounds that weave through these wonderful passages”
“In the end it’s sculpted into a far-out abstraction that is quite rare – an enjoyable and challenging listen. It’s a quirky, perky conclusion that will ring in my ears for hours. Turn it up!”
Upcoming live shows as Wet Sounds
7th Oct: St George’s Pool, London
14th Oct: No Bounds Festival, Sheffield
9th Nov: The Well Spa, Oslo
20th Jan 2019: Macau Fringe
24th – 29th Jan: Fringe World, Perth, Australia
16th Feb – 3rd March – Adelaide Fringe Australia
Sept 2018: Release of Aquadelique. on Adaadat Records on CD and vinyl. Listen on Bandcamp, iTunes, Spotify and others
Intensive weekend workshops at theLondon Film School:
9-10 June: Location Sound Recording
16-17 June: Audio Post Production
1st – 5th March 2018: Playing Wet Sounds at Adelaide Fringe 10th Feb 2017: Playing at Wet Sounds at Cheltenham Leisure 17th Nov 2017: Playing at Wet Sounds (relaxation mode) at The Well Spa in Oslo, Norway. 8th Oct 2017: Playing at Wet Sounds in London’s Ironmongers Row Baths 1st Sept 2017: Gig at Uganda, Tel Aviv with Rebecca Horrox 26th Feb 2017: Playing at Wet Sounds in London’s Ironmongers Row Baths 4th Nov 2016: Playing at Wet Sounds in The Well Spa in Oslo, Norway 24th Oct 2016: Playing at Wet Sounds at the Red Bull Music Academy event in Montreal, Canada. 22nd Sept 2016: Will be showing new and recent work at a group show in Gate 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel. 14th Sept 2016: Playing as Beit Ha’eshtonot at the Zimmer, Tel Aviv, Israel. 28th Aug 2016: I’ll be playing at Wet Sounds in Peterborough Lido 25th July 2016: I’ll be playing at Wet Soundsin Tooting Leisure Centre at 7am. 25th June 2016: I will be playing a live abstract mash up at the No Quiet Place event in Leeds
New geo-locative sound walk app in Chalkwell park.
We spend 11% of our existence dreaming, a full month of each year, that’s more time than we spend eating. While the body lies still the mind wanders, free of limitations of time and space. This story poses the possibility that a conscious dreaming mind could share other people’s real waking experiences.
The Oneironaut, a dream traveller, reawakens perpetually into a dream. Confusing memories and reality, he tries to use dream logic to return to his sleeping body. As he occupies your consciousness, he guides you through the park and through to his realisation of the somber truth.
‘Cahen’s dream traveller stimulates my imagination, directing me to details I would have missed, pasting eerie parallel dream worlds onto a cold, grey weekend morning in suburbia’ – THE WIRE 384 / Jan 2016
‘Joel Cahen’s magic realist The Oneironaut in the most immersive app… with details from the park acting as narrative triggers. Dedications on benches become the mantras of an unseen ritualistic gathering. Large circular flowerbeds become burial sites where sound is looped and layered. Crashes and clatters combine with eerie female voices, a dense hum and fragments of a drunk male voice singing a shanty of sorts. I feel I’ve disturbed some spirits which quieten as I step back onto the path. – THE WIRE 384 / Jan 2016
Altered States is an immersive multi-screen show of the latest experimental film and video work curated by the Hastings-based filmmakers Toby Tatum and Mark French. Altered States features moving image by over seventy of the most fascinating international moving image practitioners working today, much of it unseen in the UK.
This exhibition includes the fruits of a worldwide search for works that articulate film’s power to initiate heightened states of consciousness, transporting us across the threshold into a mind-expanding visionary state. The programme features a selection of cutting edge films that imaginatively reshape the base materials of the everyday world into something rich and strange.
I will be taking part in the year long Embedded programme initiated by Sound and Music in London and involving Huddersfield University and CMMAS in Morelia, Mexico. The residency will focus on various applications of sound using game engines and will result in presentation in Huddersfield and Morelia.