Duncan Whitley is an artist, sound recordist and archivist. Over the past decade his work has demonstrated a critical interest in the presentation of sound in the visual arts. He has exhibited installations and interventions in public spaces, galleries and non-gallery spaces, and has presented field recording projects nationally and internationally at various events such as the London Placard headphones festival (2004), Sounds Like Trouble (Stroud Valley Artspace, 2005) , Sound Café (Jedburgh Arts Centre, 2005), PVA LabCulture (Substation, Singapore 2005), The Listening Project (Slade Studios, London, 2006), Soundlab IV (newmediafest.org, 2006) and Sound:Space (South Hill Park, Bracknell, 2007).

His interest in curating sound work led him to work with Measure and Melanie Smith on “Me and My Shadow”, at Wilton’s Music Hall in the East End of London. The show included work by Thor McIntyre-Burnie and Chris Watson, and a premiere performance of new work by Janek Schaefer and Philip Jeck.

Duncan’s own work appropriates forms and conventions of sound installation, field recording, oral history, and sonic archive. In ongoing sound recording projects Duncan has focused on collecting, analysing, categorising and editing raw material extracted from the social and urban fabric. Underpinning his work is an interest in the social and documentary value of sound as a medium, and the use of sound and new media to develop alternative narrative forms. Whilst displaying a critical interest in sound and audio work, Duncan remains committed to producing intuitive, accessible work for a wide range of audiences.