I am an artist and musician specialising in experimental sound, writing, installation, painting, and digital illustration.
Central to my practice is a critical and playful exploration of online culture. I am interested in how our everyday entanglement with the internet governs our social imagination in strange ways. I often look at relatively unknown actors participating in the churn of content creation and consumption. I examined these “prosumers” in my paper, “Isolated Together”, published with Sonic Scope, and in my audio fiction record, “bluelightnospaceflattime”, in which I took a more personal and experimental approach to exploring the anxiety, and alienation of our online lives.
I am also concerned with how our experiences are shaped by the sonic architecture of urban spaces. In “Crystallised Estate”, I took field recordings from the walls and floors of Elephant & Castle and the Barbican Estate, weaving them into an audio essay exploring gentrification, history, and sound. In “Chaotic Conflations”, I set up complex audio feedback systems at Goldsmiths College, placing my body in the middle of the signal path. From this, I produced noise pieces in which my voice fused with electronics and architecture.
Under the name Tam Lin, I’ve released over a dozen records on Bandcamp, spanning a range of approaches. For example: “Nearly”, which came out on Hard Return, is a repetitive dark ambient piece; “bluelightnospaceflattime”, on Flaming Pines, incorporates spoken word, AI, and field recording; bug.albm is a love letter to the modular synthesiser; Fever is inspired by dance music and video games. I perform regularly as a solo act, incorporating industrial beats, field recordings, vocals, and ambient music. Starting in 2024, I have expanded my compositional work to films produced by other artists.
I enjoy creating communities around sound and art, most notably Crossovers Collective, which I set up with Jessica Beechey in 2022. We put on 11 experimental music and art events at Matchstick Piehouse, until late 2023. Since then, I’ve increased Crossover’s digital output, producing a mixtape and an interview-based podcast, while we develop more ambitious events. In May 2024, I curated Edge Cases for TACO!, which further focused on the intersection between fine art and experimental music.
Projects
Work history
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Founder, Host, Co-ordinatorCrossovers Collective
London, United KingdomPart Time
An art and music collective, found and co-lead with one colleague.
We have:
• Hosted 11 nights of experimental music and performance art, and numerous informal social events (as of December 2023).
• Facilitated collaborative workshops and music releases.
Artist/ComposerBarbican Centre
 - London, United KingdomFreelance
Skills
- Composition
- Sound Art
- Sound Editing
- Audio Mixing
- Sound Design
- Editing Proofreading
- Academic Writing
- Creative Writing
- Essay Writing
- Audio Visual
Education
MastersGoldsmiths, University of London
 - London, United Kingdom
Sonic Art MMus - Distinction
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Bachelor of Arts (BA) Newcastle University
 - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Fine Art BA - First
Awards
Goldsmiths Music Studios Assistant Engineer Higher Education Achievement ReportGoldsmiths, University of London
Training in a professional music studio, learning to set up studio recordings and use a large format mixing console. Independently recorded and mixed the work of other musicians.