BAILEY NEWINGTON

Popular Sonic Manufacturing Plant, 2025, Web-based Interactive Audiovisual Installation.

Resurrected Future, 2025, Video and Sound.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am drawn to sound in my practice because of its inherent intangibility; its spectral quality infers meaning even when it remains just out of reach. My practice also involves the interplay between analogue and digital technologies, drawing inspiration from thinkers like Mark Fisher to interrogate how sound and media haunt the present with traces of lost futures. I'm particularly interested in popular music - not just as a cultural product - but as a carrier of ideology, and sonic residue through memory.

My main work for the degree show ‘Popular Sonic Manufacturing Plant’ (presented on New Art City), is a virtual installation and soundscape that imagines popular music as psychical objects, materialised like mass-produced goods. It takes the form of a semi-abstract ‘pop music factory’ - a fractured, derelict structure suspended in an ambiguous space between utopia and dystopia. The world is built from digital glitches and decaying remnants, evoking a hauntological atmosphere. Through several original sound works, video and digital sculptures, my piece explores how music anachronises our sense of place and time.

Popular Sonic Manufacturing Plant, 2025, Web-based Interactive Audiovisual Installation.

Resurrected Future, 2025, Video and Sound.

EMAIL:

baileynewington@gmail.com

WEBSITE:

https://bnportfolio.neocities.org