Exhibition & Performances :
Session One : 28 March 2026 Saturday 3pm
Session Two : 28 March Saturday 6pm
Session Three : 29 March Sunday 4pm
£10 | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
Running time : 50 minutes approx.
Deconstructed Radio + Channelling Shortwave has been selected from Project DIVFUSE Sound Project Open Call 2026.
‘I have been developing the Channelling project since 2021 in which I present a collection of mechanisms and devices salvaged from discarded and obsolete technology and reanimate them by playing amplified sound through them. This causes the motors to activate in random and unpredictable ways, which I respond to live, amplifying them using various microphones.
Channelling Airwaves was a commission for Deutschlandfunk Kultur in early 2025 which I subsequently adapted for live performance, presented at You and Me Festival, Beijing, China and Echoes without Borders for A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China.
Also during a residency at Artists House, Pärnu, Estonia last year I developed a series called Deconstructed Radio, two of which are part of a permanent installation in the city and one was presented in Klangmanifeste, Vienna, Austria last year and will be part of a Konnekt event in Geneva, Switzerland this February, where I will create more pieces for the series.
Deconstructed Radio allows viewers to see the inside of the objects, demystifying the ‘black box’ idea of hidden inner workings.’ – Simon Whetham
For the event at Project DIVFUSE, Whetham will be presenting a number of Deconstructed Radio pieces in the space, followed by performing a new version of Channelling Airwaves.
Since 2005, Simon Whetham has developed a practice of working with sonic activity. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques to obtain unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He explores ways of channelling and transforming energy, and how to salvage and repurpose obsolete consumer technology in kinetic sound works.
He performs and exhibits internationally, participating in A4 Residency Art Center (CN), Chiba City Art Triennale (JP), Som Desorganizado (PT), Klangmanifeste (AT), Noise Istanbul (TK), New Adits (AT), Simultan (RO), Sonica Festival (SI), 28.MFRU (SI), phonon~festival (CZ), NEXT Festival (SK), Fresh Winds Biennale (IS), Klub Katarakt Festival (DE), Nakanojo Biennale (JP), ACC Showcase (KR), Blurred Edges (DE), Tsonami Festival (CL), Madeiradig (PT) and Moers Festival (DE); has a large number of published works; and regularly collaborates with artists of other disciplines.
