Orchitecture Brixton: 4th rendition of Orchitecture will be happening on Saturday 8th March 2025, exploding the fabulous Chineke! Orchestra around Lambeth Town Hall, in the heart of Brixton, London. Developed in partnership with Lambeth Council in collaboration with Chineke! Foundation —Europe’s leading majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra— and...
Highlights 2024 The Deal, Shenzhen China – With Dream Awake ( Geko theatre) & CMG china .- Development Rehearsals in Ipswich & site visit to Shenzhen China – An immersive physical theatre & dance production, set across 5 floors of a gorgeous 1960’s cruise liner Ship, in the heart of...
Really excited to say after month sof wrangling we’re about to embark on a new Augmented Reality project, Looking at 2 significant London Statues whose colonial legacy goes deep.. We’ll be working very closely with the communities they directly effect to shape and co-create new ways to use AR to...
SONGSTREETS An immersive audio walk through the streets & culture of Brixton. The latest site-specific AR -Experience from Aswarm XR Really Excited to be putting finishing touches to this new App and site-specific experience for & with Brixton. – Chiming in with 2023 being 75th Anniversary of the Windrush. Encounter...
Really excited to be finally holding a public launch of Holding The Flame, an AR-Statue for Brixton. It’s taken best par of a year to build the relationships and negotiations & technological developments to install the work in Canterbury Square , outside Brixton Police Station. Now we can finally shout...
Finally cut a short video from Arbores Vocalis. A commission Thor McB worked on through the lockdown’s of 2021, drawn from 100 interviews and recordings dispersed local choirs. Installed as a site specific installation for Lesnes Abbey ruins in November to brilliant audience of 7000 punters braving the cold for...
Nov 17th: We presented Vocalis Arbores to a brilliant audience of 7000 punters braving the cold for the 1 mile ‘Light The Way’ light walk at Thamesmead, London. Postponed from March Due to Covid Restrictions the excitement and shear number despite sub zero temperatures was astounding and showed theres a...
Delighted to share a sneaky preview of Holding the Flame in The Independent Newspaper. -Our new Augmented Reality Statues project, created for Brixton as part of 81Acts of Exuberant Defiance, commemorating the Brixton Uprisings of 1981, asking: 40 years on Where are we at?? (A phased launch Soft...
Despite the Lockdown, Aswarm’s AD Thor McB has been working on a new commission for Lesness Abbey, london. – Recording a disparate choir* of individual voices recorded online singing a new score he co-wrote with Choral conductor & composer Jeremy Jackman, a Gregorian chant utilising prose & the Latin names...
In 2020 we began a new R&D collaborative project called a Heightened Sense of Tree (AHSOT). A collaboration led by Thor McB + Lindsey Butcher (dir of Gravity & Levity -One of UK’s most experienced aerial dancers & Choreographers). Our basic concept aims to sensorially ‘describe’ the forest in movement,...
Aswarm’s director, Artist Thor McB has been commissioned by Emergency Exit Arts (EEA) & Lesnes Abbey to create an audio installation to re-awaken the Abbey Ruins with the voices of the people who use, love, play, walk, climb, run, frolic and hang-out in Lesnes Woods & Abbey (Bexley, SE London)....
Delighted to share a article about Aswarm’s Artistic Director Thor McIntyre-Burnie in Resolution Magazine – one of the leading pro-audio magazines. – Capturing a day in the life, during A Heightened Sense of Tree #AHSOT R&D collaboration with vertical dancer/choreographer Lindsey Butcher (Gravity & Levity) in the tree’s of Wild...
So its a strange thing entering Lockdown 2.0. Gone is all the surreal wonder of the first one.. Looking back on that period of ‘learning to listen to the world differently’, that inspired The #Diasonix Experiment, its strange to think how quickly we’ve adapted to this new norm already. Are...
Recently Ive been turning me ears more acutely towards tree’s. Via a R&D project A Heightened Sense Of Tree. AHSOT with Vertical dancer & Choreographer Lindsey Butcher (Gravity & Levity). One of the joys of this collaboration has been sharing the rigging and perspectives of our art-forms and being hoisted...
It's been a real boost in a very uncertain time, to make sure we can ride out the storm, consolidate our resources and invest in new expertise & new ideas growing out of this new-norm. Watch this space!
What do we hear when the background hub-bub of traffic and distraction has been dramatically reduced? Are the birds louder or is it just we’re hearing them more? As our sensory horizons become confined to our homes, are we becoming more sensitive to nuance? or do we just have...
Preparing a new commission to be sited within and responding directly to the unique Klankenbos and Samhain Festival. ( An Art Trail Commission by TAKT Dommelhof and Musica Impulse Centre for Music for Samhain Festival ). – Here long time old collaborator and artist Toby Jarvis returns to the Aswarm fold. A new installation, incorporating a...
ShyCamera just finished a short film about my recent project with Farnborough Wind Tunnels, Flying Into The Dawn (an Artliner Commission). This shorter version focuses just on the Q121 building (with the monster 24′ fan). Theres also a full edit which crosses over to the 2nd half of the project in R52...
@ La Strada International Festival, Graz, Austria. – 5-9th Aug 2014 A unique collaboration with Austria’s leading WW1 Historian Helmut Konrad and a team of 9 Historians of the University of Graz, co-ordinated by Stephan Benedik. Opening as Britain declared war on Germany 100 yrs ago, in Arch Duke Ferdinands home town of...
The best and certainly most visited version of the The speakers to date. Made manifest in a gorgeous clearing in woodland on the island of Terschelling, next to a WW2 bomb crater come strange forest pool. We had 800-1200 people come find us in the forest everyday for 9 days! it...
In this attempt to wrestle with the one of the earliest and largest wind tunnel in the world 24′ (rising 40′ high and 120m long..), a 4′ one (rising to 15′ and 60m long) and 2 hangers where wind tunnels used to be I have worked myself to the bone.. but...
Fantastic new choreography collaboration with Gravity & Levity, Choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller, BBC war correspondent David Loyn and Light & Video William Reynolds. I highly recommend seeing this (Time Outs pick of the month) Opens: • Stratford Circus May 1st -3rd. • The Lowry: Tue 13 May – Wed 14 May •...
An Installation set within the stairs and foyer of Eastbourne’s gorgeous old Winter Gardens, as part of Our Dancing Feet (Comissioned by Zap Arts and In Road Productions). The space is populated by pairs of suspended old dancing shoes, fitted with bare speaker cones.. .. each features the voice of...
http://colomboartbiennale.com/ Presenting a new version of The Speakers and new Gallery sculptural install, representing England in this fantastic young Biennale of the East. Following a 1 month residency in Sura Madura commissioned by the INSITU European Artist Abroad scheme and commissioned by the CAB Colombo Biennale, I produced a new version...
TeXstep – A new Commission Due to Happen : 16th & 17th Nov 2013. Taking the trajectory of social dancing from memories of Brighton’s Regents Music Hall to todays Oceana super-club, and beyond, TeXstep asks what would it be like if we didn’t have to be physically there? ..if we...
THE SPEAKERS: 14th Sept 2013. @ Helix Day, Falkirk, Scotland (UZ Arts and INSITU EU network commission). New Partners AudioBoo have come on board and the project now has its own Channel on Audioboo to Record, gather and collate the recorded voices. -This will provide both a Tool and a online Platform for this project. We...
The Speakers on Ayr. @ Burns an’ a’ that! Festival 2013. July Ayr, Scotland. – a UZ Arts & INSITU commission. NEXT PHASE in Development Process: New 3D Design; Advanced Rigging System and trial working laparkan.com/buy-sildenafil/ with Both Archives of Non-Digital Text Juxtaposed with Tweeted Texts: – here Robert Burns...
Spookshow – with Spymonkey. -Just presented a new production and new work in progress collaboration with hillarious outfit Spymonkey. A site-specific commission by Showzam to mark re-opening of the gorgeous old Winter Gardens of Blackpool, with a revision of the idea of a ‘Spooks Show’ set in and around the...
THE SPEAKERS.. – Stemming from the project Boiling Point Manifestations in Budapest as part of City Noises & INSITU @ Placcc Festival Sept’12. Having received R&D funding from With Out Walls (consortium of UKs leading Arts Festivals) and becoming part of City Noises ( a European cultural exchange project linking London, Helsinki Budapest. http://citynoises.org) the project Boiling Point has evolved into a...
Concrete Inferno / The Fire Gardens this week at The National Theatre – 24/25/26 July Posted on July 25, 2012 Concrete Inferno / The Fire Gardens this week at The National Theatre – 24-26 July 2012 9-11.30pm Setting Light to the National Theatre for 3 nights Only.. Swing by the Southbank...
2012 I’m delighted to say we are off in Search of the Uncertain Symphony again! -This time on a much bigger scale, with 40 + Orchestral musicians from the New London Orchestra (NLO) and Newham Youth Orchestra (NYA). Exploding the orchestra and creating a symphony to walk within. A further...
Bridges. SD. Collaboration with Ragroof Theatre (UK) and Cie Venaval (France). Site-specific show, touring, inspired by immigration and evolution of Tango in the Convantillos. SO! Festival Skegness , 29-31 June
Orchitecture – in Search of the Uncertain Symphony with the New London Orchestra(NLO). @ House Mill, London, June 23/24th 2012.. Site-Specific Orchestral Installation.
Boiling Point v1 (Current aswarm project). IN SITU & META (EU) commission for Atelier 231, Rouen, France, as part of Fish & Chips #3. Also awarded Writing Aid grantto develop project over 2012. -A 48 channel Sound & light Installation. -A voiced manifestation of revolution drawn from Twitter. Boiling Point...
An Exploded Symphony and a Site-Specific Sound Installation By Artist Thor McIntyre-Burnie in Collaboration with the New London Orchestra. – Set over 5 floors of the largest surviving tidal Mill in the world. – 4 shows only on the 23/24th June 2012. I’m delighted to announce the Orchitecture project is...
Sweet Smell of Success with BOSI. SD. New touring show gathering the sweet smell of success from around the nation to feed the British Olympic team.. Incl Vibrating interactves.
Bee Detective, Tin Bath Theatre Company. Cultural Olympiad touring show for Deaf & hearing children & families. Incl Design of a Vibrating Floor. Touring from May. SD
Ghost Roost. BBC Radio 4 Nature prog, collaboration with Chis Watson. Prod by Sarah Blunt.
BoilingPoint PR Boiling Point – A Manifestation of a Retweeted Revolution : Press Release : NEW Installation By Thor McIntyre-Burnie & Aswarm Sound and Installation Artist Thor McIntyre (of Aswarm) is working on a physical & sonic manifestation of the network entity of revolution, residing in...
Boiling Point is up despite the Pluit de Normandy..Although I read it was rainging in Tahrir as we we rigged 32 speakers supsended in the air, gathered in clusters around 3 fires, each speaking the Tweets of 30 people in Tahrir Squares Revolution 1 year agao and in the months...
The First Protoype version of Boiling Point V1, commissioned and presented as part of a mini winter festival @ Atelier 231, Rouen, France (An In-situ & Meta Commission) – An interesting Location (love the wall & urban feel and historically apt site), but a difficult Scenario (amongst a whole...
BoilingPoint PR Boiling Point Press Release: NEW Installation By Thor McIntyre-Burnie & Aswarm Sound and Installation Artist Thor McIntyre (of Aswarm) is working on a physical & sonic manifestation of the network entity of revolution, residing in the Twitter-sphere. Flocks of suspended speaker cones (30+) gather around...
2011 Hydrocracker production, a series of Harold Pinter plays made site specific, within institutional buildings of power. Inc;: Brighton Town Hall (B’ton International Festival, May) and Shoreditch Town Hall, London (Barbican commission, Nov). 2007 New World Order. SD wih Hydrocrcker, a site-specific series of Pinter plays, set in 4 floors...
SD. Collaboration with Ragroof Theatre (UK) and Cie Venaval (France). Site-specific show, touring Multi-story Carparks, inspired by immigration and evolution of Tango in the Convantillos. Scénes Du Rue, Mulhouse, France & Stockton Int Arts Fest.
Creative Partnerships Change School,s artist in school project, x-whole school. Developing alternative teaching methods, creative use of ICT and outdoor learning.
All Hands. SD. New outdoor touring fire show with TWF (son-et-lumier) in collaboration with Ku-da-mix Orchestra (David White and Kuljit Bhamra). Fuse Festival (Rochester, ), SO Fesitval (Skegness), Canterbury Festival.
National Youth Theatre. SD. Large-scale site-specific performance animating the infamous Park Hill Estate, Sheffield.
Sensory Garden Journeys & Dynamic Self-Portraits. Artist project with Charlton Special School, developing interactive sensory garden, and creative learning modules which utilise it.
SD TWF, Bestival Isle White, Installation & bonfire pyro spectacular.
National Trust Commission. -A sonic interpretation of Khadambi’s Asalaches laparkan.com/buy-vardenafil/ House, Lead artist (with BA/MA students) http://vimeo.com/15016538 http://khadambiasalachehouse.tumblr.com/listeningtothehouse2010
Sensory Garden. Charlton Special School. Sound & Light arena new installation.
Full Circle with TWF & Terra Folk: (Dublin, Angers, France and Bucharest). SD
Artist architectural sound collaboration with Tom DaleDance company and composer Shackleton (Berlin). NNF10 commission.
A new commission with Olivier Award winning playwright Simon Stephens and California’s infamous songwriter, Mark Eitzel (AMC). B’ton Fest ’10.
Arnold Circus Bandstand, Shoreditch, London. A Measure ArtsCommission for Concrete & Glass Festival. SS installation using seismic & infrasound recordings of this site, installed in Bandstand. -Sound, light and structure.
National Theatre. SD. Building animations with TWF, wk of 23rd of July.
Commissioned by the Pallant House Gallery for their Lift and the Eye Music exhibition. An interactive installation using touch sensitive carpet, coloured light and a specially commissioned 6 channel recording of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.
In collaboration with Toby Jarvis. Commissioned by Without Walls. A touring installation within urban trees, using sculptural entities, light, kinetics and recordings of insects in Japan and the substation at the Tate www.mindanews.com/buy-ventolin/ Modern. Commissioned by Without Walls, for Brighton Street arts Festival, Manchester Extracts, Winchester Hat Fair, Greenwich & Docklands...
• A Unilever Commission for their HQ offices. • A room designed to stimulate conversation. • Six blue Pods with speakers & light play voices in conversation. •Visitors can wheel about under the pods and learn about how to conduct braver and more constructive conversations.
Oct. Commissioned Brighton Council and SE Arts, Small Wonder. A multi-sensory immersive performance. A Site-specific night show within a giant glass Palm House. A collaborative project (small-wonder.co.uk). **Guardian Pick of the Week.
A Pier @West Pier Oct ‘00 -May ‘01 Artist Residency @ West Pier, Brighton. *AP -Audio-visual creative documentation – Interventions -Artistic advisor. -Collaboration with the Chris Watson recording the starling colony and documenting the pier. @Fylkingen Apr 2001. Artist Residency @Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden. -Periphonic sound & Light. -Collaborative artist residency with...
Jun. ‘97. Victoria Gardens, Brighton. (ARP) Public art work. Hexaphonic sound from 6 grass turfed mounds landscaped into public gardens. Brighton Fringe Festival. – ACE Lottery, Ecovert, Bton & Hove Council. *AP
At Shelton Gallery. Installation of 60 bar speakers dissected from old TVs, suspended in a swarm like formation, channelling the sound of 30 Live TV feeds from Murdochs Sky TV network. Creating a means of walking in amogst the broadcast flow and effectively channel hopping through movement. *A
