Craig Peter Gell (b. 1982, Bournemouth) is an artist, composer and musician based in Folkestone, Kent, south-east England (UK).
His recent work explores our relationship to the natural environment, using field recordings and creative coding to produce sound-walks and sound maps, multimedia installations and electroacoustic compositions. He has also led public workshops relating to areas of his practice, in field recording and field studies.
Craig’s work has featured at Profound Sound, SALT Festival of the Sea and the Environment, Folkestone Triennial and Ramsgate Festival of Sound, and has been broadcast on Radiophrenia (Scotland), Resonance Extra and The Lake (DK). He has also contributed to online exhibitions and live streaming events. In 2020/21, he was a MagiC Carpets (Creative Europe) resident artist working alongside visiting artist Mary Conroy (IE).
Craig has composed music for short animated films, including Quarantine (2018, BBC4/BFI), directed by long-time collaborator Astrid Goldsmith. Music for the film Red Rover (2020) was composed while on residency at the Red House, Aldeburgh.
Craig has worked with other artists and practitioners including composer Anna Braithwaite, eco-poet Chris Poundwhite, filmmaker Jemima Hughes, and the Folkestone Fringe.
Craig is an experienced musician and currently plays electric guitar with the Free Range Orchestra.
More sounds and music can be heard on soundcloud.
See also Beacons.
For all enquiries, please email info[at]craiggellmusic.com
Exhibited Work / Projects
2023
– Great Orme Copper Mine (Auto Filter) / Holywell Coombe (Sweeping Filter), Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
2022
– Lithoscapes, SALT + EARTH Festival, Creative Folkestone / Kent Downs AONB
– Tune In Folkestone, Field Recording workshop, Creative Folkestone, Kent
– Incantations, Profound Sound, Folkestone, Kent
– Imogen Holst’s Kitchen / Imogen Holst’s Kitchen in Retrograde, Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
2021
– White Cart Stream, Live sonification for COP26, As if radio (AIR) / Soundcamp, Glasgow
– Pent Happenings (II), Exhibition, Workshop and Events, Folkestone Fringe / MagiC Carpets, Folkestone, Kent
– Locus Sonus live stream for Dawn Chorus Day, ‘Reveil 8‘, Soundcamp
2020
– Wave Machine, Radio Art, Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
– Wave Machine, festival CHAT 2020, Online Exhibition
– Pent Happenings (I), Exhibition, Workshops and Events, Festival Of Looking, Folkestone Fringe / MagiC Carpets, Folkestone, Kent
– Wave Machine, Multimedia Installation, Silverland Studios, Ramsgate Festival of Sound, Kent
– Wave Machine, Multimedia Installation, Profound Sound, Folkestone, Kent
– Wind Chime, Radio Art, ‘Works for Radio #4’, The Lake Radio, Denmark
2019
– Green Language, w/Chris Poundwhite. Multimedia Installation, SALT Festival of the Sea and the Environment, Folkestone, Kent
– Starling Broadcast, Sound Installation, Profound Sound, Folkestone, Kent
– Starling Broadcast, Radio Art, Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
2018
– Folkestone’s El Dorado: An auditory ramble through the Warren, Sound-walk, SALT Festival of the Sea and the Environment, Folkestone, Kent
2017
– House Of Easement, Sound Installation. Folkestone Triennial: Fringe Open, Folkestone, Kent
Film Music
2020
– Red Rover, Composer. Mock Duck Studios / BFI. Animation Short Film. Directed by Astrid Goldsmith.
2019
– Technology For Talking, Composer. BBC Ideas / Screen South. Animation Short Film. Directed by Jemima Hughes.
2018
– Quarantine, Composer. BFI / BBC4 / Wingspan. Animation Short Film. Directed by Astrid Goldsmith (Mock Duck Studios).
2016
– Polymer, Composer and Sound Design. Directed by Astrid Goldsmith (Mock Duck Studios).
– Squirrel Island, Composer. Directed by Astrid Goldsmith (Mock Duck Studios).
Awards / Residencies
2021
– MagiC Carpets (Year 4), Folkestone, Kent
– Transmission Fund, Help Musicians
2020
– MagiC Carpets (Year 3), Folkestone, Kent
2019
– Francis Chagrin Award, SoundandMusic.org
– ‘Made At The Red House’ Composers residency, Wild Plum Arts / Britten-Pears Foundation, Aldeburgh, Suffolk