Who

Kathy Hinde

Lead Artist

Kathy Hinde is an artist and composer whose practice embraces open methods and evolving processes. Through installations, performances and site specific experiences, she aims to nurture a deeper and more embodied connection to the more-than-human world. Composed of hand-made objects, electronics and a blend of digital and analogue systems, her work can represent a cross between kinetic sound sculptures and newly invented musical instruments. She creates artworks in response to specific locations and frequently works in collaboration with other practitioners and scientists and often actively involves the audience in the creative process. Kathy has toured her work all over the world and awards include an Ivor Novello Award for Sound Art, an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica, a British Composer Award in Sonic Art, an ORAM award, a Scottish Award for New Music and an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Bath Spa University.

As lead artist, Kathy is shaping the overall creative vision for 'Listen to the Voices of the Fen', alongside creating a series of sound installations, facilitating workshops and collaborating with the whole creative team.

Photo © Mike Selby National Trust Images

Jan Hendrickse

Collaborating Sound Artist & Composer

Jan Hendrickse is an artist, musician, researcher and educator. His work is concerned with a range of hybrid practices and is often collaborative. He initially trained as a western Classical flute player and has since studied several flute traditions including Turkish Ney, Chinese Xiao and Dizi as well as Rajasthani Satara and Alghoza. His PhD research examined ecological approaches to compositional practice, instrument design and improvisation. He has undertaken several international projects for the British Council including work in Tanzania, East Jerusalem and Nepal. He has received commissions for concerts, installations and contemporary dance scores, as well as working as a performer and recording artist. He has performed with a wide range of artists from many traditions, as well as featuring regularly as a soloist on woodwind instruments for major film scores.

For 'Listen to the Voices of the Fen', Jan is leading workings to hand-craft overtone flutes from willow branches harvested from Wicken Fen, to co-create a live performance with workshop participants performing with overtone flutes in response to the soundscapes of Wicken Fen.

Photo © Lorenzo Palmieri

Amy Wyllie

Artist

Amy is a multi-disciplinary creative with a focus on co-creating work with children. She is co-artistic director of Spinning Wheel Theatre, a rural touring company based in East Anglia, which creates work for young children and families featuring puppetry, multi-rolling and live music with integrated accessible practices including Makaton signing and sensory experiences in relaxed performance environments. She has also worked with companies across the region as a director, writer, sound designer and facilitator, including for the Cambridge Junction, Ink Festival, HighTide, Sheringham Little Theatre, Marina Theatre Lowestoft, Primadonna Festival and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds. 

For 'Listen to the Voices of the Fen', Amy is working with local schools to co-create sound and visual responses to the soundscapes of Wicken Fen, and bringing an engaging listening activity to local fairs and carnivals.

Photo © Fourth Wall Photography

Oliver Payne

Artist

Oliver Payne is an artist and sound designer whose practice spans a diverse range of interests including sound-based mark making, kinetic sculpture, improvisation and working with communities. As Programme Director of Disability Arts charity, Musical Keys and a practitioner for the School of Noise, Oliver works with people and places to co-create work that is explorative, authentic and inclusive. Previously a celebrated composer for film and TV, Oliver now creates sound design for global fashion brands and filmmakers. Oliver's installation and drawing works have been included in exhibitions across Europe, most recently at Kunstraum, Berlin and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

For 'Listen to the Voices of the Fen', Oliver is working alongside members of CamSight and Burwell Day Centre to facilitate creative workshops and listening walks. Oliver will also create a sound installation for the Sound Sculpture Trail at Wicken Fen.

Stevie Wishart

Composer

Stevie Wishart is an experienced composer & improviser based in Kings Lynn, whose current work is inspired by birdsong and nature. Exploring music’s unique ability to express ideas on a level which transcends other routes of communication is what motivates Stevie's work as a music composer and improviser.  There is an increasing ecological element to Wishart’s creativity which she calls “Ecotones” and includes a special group of works inspired by the natural soundworld, including "The Last Dance?". Writing for voices and birdsong, 'Voicing the Dawn’ was premiered in Ex Cathedra’s Summer Music by Candlelight concerts in 2019 and was revised to inhabit the garden and trees of the Gezellehuis (Guido Gezelle Museum) and along with "Murmuration II", commissioned by the Concertgebouw Bruges for the Bruges Triennial in  2021. Endangered birdsong is heard as themes in recent orchestral, chamber and vocal works, and her future commission for the Ipswich Choral Society (2025) for whom she is honorary vice-president, is inspired by the subtleties in the sound of different types of leaves. 

For 'Listen to the Voices of the Fen' Stevie will creatively respond to the birdsong of Wicken Fen with compositions that will be interspersed into the natural soundscape as a spatialised sound installation.

Matthew Olden

Sound Artist & Programmer

Matthew Olden is a digital artist and composer who’s work explores the speculative futures of technology, big data, the machine-human interface and post-humanism. He performs live under many pseudonyms including i am the mighty jungulator, he streams online, composes for contemporary dance, film and theatre, and creates site responsive and interactive installations. Matthew has been developing his own audio software since 1998. Pioneering a first wave of beat-led generative music resulted in winning Best New Electronic Act at 2004 Diesel New Music Awards with 3 (unbeknown to the jury) generative tracks. As a creative technologist, Matthew regularly develops software systems for other artists, alongside clients such as Philharmonia Orchestra, NESTA futurelab and the BBC.

For 'Listen to the Voices of the Fen', Matthew set up the software for the live stream, collaborated with Jono on the Virtual Aeolian Harp, and is contributing to the sound design for the installations.

City Edition Studio

Design & Web Development

City Edition Studio is the graphic design and web development practice of Jono Lewarne. Since 2010 he has worked with clients across the cultural and commercial sectors, creating a broad spectrum of projects including books and printed matter, websites, site-specific installations and screen-based outcomes. He teaches graphic design and typography on undergraduate and postgraduate programs at UWE. Colour and a playful energy are often found in Jono’s work, where he seeks to balance traditional typographic principles with a questioning of design orthodoxies.

For 'Listen to the Voices of the Fen' Jono has built a unique website with a soundmap, collaborated with Matthew Olden on the live stream and Virtual Aeolian Harp, and designed riso-printed postcards.

Florence Tong

Producer

Florence Tong is Programme Manager (Creative Communities & Cultural Education) at Babylon Arts (operated by ADEC),  is a charity committed to inspiring, developing and delivering quality arts events and activities to engage communities in Ely and West Anglia. Florence has managed the projects at Babylon Arts for 6 years and whose role on this project is to manage the relationships between the artists, local schools, Cam Sight, Burwell Day Centre and the local community fairs. She is excited to support Kathy Hinde in her creative vision and encourage and facilitate as many community members to take the time to Listen to the Voices of the Fen at Wicken Fen Nature Reserve.