Mark Peter Wright

{{Short description|British sound artist}} '''Mark Peter Wright''' (born 1979) is a British sound artist who works with field recording and phonography. "His work addresses listening and the environment and seeks to amplify, illuminate and interrogate notions of place and experience."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://soundandmusic.org/features/ear-room/introducing-ear-room |title=Introducing Ear Room |publisher=soundandmusic.org |date=2 November 2011 |accessdate=28 January 2012}}</ref>

He studied at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, London and Manchester Metropolitan University and has exhibited and broadcast works internationally including Flat Time House,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flattimeho.org.uk/project/44/ |title=Flat Time I-Io / The John Latham Foundation and Archive |publisher=Flattimeho.org.uk |date=1 August 2010 |accessdate=12 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323120913/http://www.flattimeho.org.uk/project/44/ |archivedate=23 March 2012 }}</ref> London, Barbican Centre, London, Queen Elisabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London, Royal Opera House, London, and on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM.

In 2009 Wright was awarded the BASCA British Composer Award in Sonic Art for his work ''A Quiet Reverie''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/newmusic/britishcomposerawards/2009/ |title=Radio 3 – British Composer Awards |publisher=BBC |date= |access-date=12 October 2011}}</ref> an "audio exploration of site, time, perception and landscape" focused upon the monastic abbeys in North Yorkshire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://a-quiet-reverie.blogspot.com/ |title=A Quiet Reverie |publisher=A-quiet-reverie.blogspot.com |date= |accessdate=12 October 2011}}</ref>

Wright is also founder and editor of Ear Room, an online publication for developing critical discourse and debate on the creative, and explorative use of sound in artistic practice, and including interviews with relevant contributors to sound arts such as Hildegard Westerkamp and Janek Schaefer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://soundandmusic.org/features/ear-room/ |title=Ear Room |publisher=Sound and Music |date= |accessdate=12 October 2011}}</ref>

Recent work includes ''Where Once We Walked''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/content/view/full/109600 |title=Arts ahead / Arts / Culture / Home – Morning Star |publisher=Morningstaronline.co.uk |date=16 September 2011 |accessdate=12 October 2011}}</ref> a series of five compositions created in collaboration with Trevor Avery and Chris Atkins from the arts charity [http://www.anotherspace.org.uk Another Space]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lancashire.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/the-inspiring-story-of-how-windermere-helped-300-jewish-children-fleeing-the-nazis-34963/ |title=The inspiring story of how Windermere helped 300 Jewish children fleeing the Nazis | Lancashire Life |publisher=Lancashire.greatbritishlife.co.uk |date=25 August 2011 |accessdate=12 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anotherspace.org.uk/?page_id=1605 |title=The Lake District Holocaust Project |publisher=Anotherspace.org.uk |date= |accessdate=12 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917183425/http://www.anotherspace.org.uk/?page_id=1605 |archivedate=17 September 2011 }}</ref> to reflect the lives of the Windermere Boys, several hundred orphaned Jewish boys sent to the Lake District to recover from their internment in Auschwitz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/166922 |title=Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | Express Yourself :: Escape to Windermere |publisher=Express.co.uk |date=3 April 2010 |accessdate=12 October 2011}}</ref> He is currently working on an ongoing series of work about the reclaimed land of South Gare<ref>[http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/issue/dec-jan-12-13 Art Monthly 362: Dec–Jan 12–13] ''Art Monthly'', 362 (December 2012 – January 2013).</ref><ref>[http://www.thewire.co.uk/archive/issues/347 ''The Wire'' – Issue 347] ''The Wire'', 347 (January 2013).</ref> in North Yorkshire where he spent his childhood.<ref>http://issuu.com/musicworksmagazine/docs/issue114_preview?mode=window&backgroundColor=#222222''Music Works Magazine'', 114 (Winter 2012).</ref>

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==External links== * [http://markpeterwright.com/ Mark Peter Wright's website] * [http://www.imagemusictext.com/ IMT Gallery website]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Mark Peter}} Category:English male artists Category:English contemporary artists Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of the London College of Communication Category:Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University Category:British sound artists