Barcelona

Philip C Philip

Field recording, computational translation, and physical making — plotters, kinetic installation, and ecological storytelling.

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Practice

Interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of field recording, computational translation, and physical making. Current practice records the rhythms of places — birds, water, built environments — and translates them through Pure Data into pen-plotter drawings, asking what happens at each step of the crossing.

Selected Work

Plotter drawings, kinetic installation, projection, and ecological film — selected for grant and residency review.

Sound → Plotter

Raven Drawing

2026 · Sound-to-Plotter Pilot

Approximately 90 seconds of intermittent raven calling were field-recorded and translated through a Pure Data patch into spatial drawing instructions, then executed on a pen-plotter. First completed pilot of a practice-based inquiry into cross-media translation.

Raven Drawing — field recording of raven calls translated through Pure Data into pen-plotter instructions (pilot, 2026).
Pen-plotter execution — sound translated into physical drawing.

Kinetic Installation · Fabrication

The Oracle Machine

2026 · Kinetic sculpture, custom electronics, sound

A kinetic installation that responds to presence and sound. It cycles through five behavioural states — Dormant, Attentive, Overwhelmed, Receptive, Withdrawn — each governing how it listens, moves, and whether it will accept a consultation. In an age of systems that are always “on,” the work proposes a machine that breathes, rests, and sometimes says no.

Project site (EN) Sitio del proyecto (ES)

Installation view, 2026.
Oracle Machine installation view
Oracle Machine detail

Projection Mapping

Ouroboros

Projection mapping for architectural surfaces

Light and image mapped onto built form — turning architecture into a temporary ritual of cycles, regeneration, and urban surface.

Ouroboros — 3D projection mapping.
Additional projection mapping documentation.

Animation Short

Punarjanani

2019–21 · Directed animation

A 10-minute animated film on cycles of ecological destruction and regeneration. Bronze medal, ONE Earth Awards 2022; selection, BNP Paribas Green Film Festival 2022.

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Punarjanani — ecological destruction and regeneration.

Method

A pipeline treated as collaboration, not automation.

  1. 01 — Field recording Environmental sound captured on location; duration and intermittency preserved as primary material.
  2. 02 — Computational translation Audio analysed and mapped to spatial drawing instructions via Pure Data; generative systems as collaborators.
  3. 03 — Physical making Pen-plotter execution, kinetic fabrication, and installation — line, motion, and presence as records of time.

Research interests

  • Translation between media — what survives, what transforms, what unexpectedly emerges
  • Field recording and deep listening as research method
  • Computational pipelines (Pure Data, generative systems) as collaborators, not tools
  • Drawing as a record of rhythm and time
  • Practice-based research methodology; care ethics in artistic practice

CV

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Education

  • Research in Design and Communication (M.A.) Universitat de Vic – UCC, Barcelona, 2025
  • Animation in Game Design (M.A.) UPC, Barcelona, 2024
  • Stop-Motion Animation (M.A.) BAU, Barcelona, 2023
  • Cinematography and Film/Video Production (B.A.) MetFilm School, London, 2014
  • Sound Engineering and Music Production SAE Institute, 2008

Awards

  • ONE Earth Awards — Bronze (Punarjanani), 2022
  • BNP Paribas Green Film Festival — Selection (Punarjanani), 2022
  • Kalanand Art Contest — Bronze, Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation, 2016

Skills

  • Sound: field recording, spatial audio, environmental soundscapes
  • Computational: Pure Data, MaxMSP, Processing, C#, Python (basic)
  • Visual / generative: Unity, Unreal, Cinema 4D, Maya, Blender, After Effects
  • Languages: English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Spanish (basic)

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