Jon Drummond is a sound and new media artist and programmer. Jon was most recently a contributing designer and programmer on the Kate Richards and Martyn Coutts Wayfarer series. He was also the programmer on Kate Richard’s and Sarah Waterson’s sub_scape series and collaborator on the Richard’s 1+1!=2 project. He has also worked with visual artist Lisa Anderson on large scale projection works and most recently on the recordings taken during her trips to Antartica (Shining Up Stones 1998, Memories on a Grand Scale 1992, Icebergs 2008) . Jon has also worked with Dr Sonique AKA Nigel Helyer (Australian sound and new media artist) on the playful Magnus Opus (2001 ?) series – a very large suite of works based on a set of 16 diads (two note chord) that are generated via a simple algorithm. The suite which was apparently Copyrighted in 1974 thus contain many combinations of notes that have subsequently been deployed in a wide variety of tone based or enacted telecommunications protocols. Each unlicensed deployment thus constitutes an illegal public performance of a copyrighted work. The artists offer the purchase of individual and limited licences to single compositions via the projects website. While the work is obviously a playful comment on copyright law it also constitutes a serious critique of the way many corporate interests farm IP capital – particularly in the Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering industries.
Jon’s solo work is mostly concerned with installation and performance sound projects. He has explored the potential interaction between old and emerging audio technology -most notably between the theremin and the sampler (Sheet and Spiral 1997).Sonic Constructions (2004-2008) is a series of live VJ style performance where projected ink blots (and runs) provide a live data feed that generates an accompanying soundscape via Max/MSP/Jitter. His Sounding the Winds project uses a sensor laden kite to provide a live feed of data via bluetooth to produce a soundscape below (Presented at Electrofringe Newcastle NSW 2005)