Rory Salter
Rory Salter is a musician and sound artist living in London, Born in Banbury. Rory makes music under various monikers and has released albums with Alter, TakuRoku, Infant Tree, Teeth, MAL, Bison, Kashual Plastik and more. His music is formed through experimentations with electronic instruments, field recordings, amplified objects, cassette tape, feedback and voice; motivated by a relationship to changing and chaotic environments, objects and scores made from walking.
As an artist he works mostly with walking, text, feedback systems and participatory projects, often with a focus on actions and performance scores. He has worked with and performed at spaces including; Cafe OTO, San Mei Gallery, South London Gallery, Hundred Years Gallery, Safehouse Gallery, and in recent years has moved to frequently working outside.
He co-runs the record label and mail-order distribution ‘Infant Tree’ with artist Ben Victor Waggett and curates a series of concerts in London between Cafe OTO, Dalston and Spanners, Loughborough Junction. As well as working at the London College of Communication as a Sound Art Technician and at Cafe OTO as a Sound Engineer.
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I found Rory’s lecture to be interesting and covered things that are relevant to my current project.
I was interested in his work under the alias of Malvern Brume and the relationship of scores made from walking. Rory mentioned being inspired by the situationalist’s what I can understand through the act of walking due to links to Psychogeography, though Rory’s explorations seemed to focus less on the urban environment explicitly.
I found Rory’s self identification as more of a musician instead of an artist (or sound artist) to be assuring, as more myself I do not find much identification in the idea of being a sound artist, and have mixed feelings on the role of artists in current society as it is.