Performing live with amplified springs; burning nuts; vibrating metal; found pharmaceutical glassware from Prestwich Hopsital; motorised devices; chalk; old CD players and wine glasses, sound artist Lee Patterson will improvise and create a new musical performance that links the local to the international through it’s use of materials and influences...

Lee Patterson works with amplification and sound recording as methods to interrogate found objects and materials in order to investigate any sonic or musical potential that they may have. Influenced by a range of electronic and experimental music as well as environmental sound recording, he has researched and devised a range of processes and designed and built a collection of experimental musical instruments.

With a focus upon the unheard, micro and internal sounds of things, he uses contact microphones and hydrophones to amplify and uncover a previously ignored or sub-aural world of sounding everyday phenomena. This forms the basis of his musical explorations in the studio and the wider world.