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A Century of Sounds
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

A Century of Sounds

A Century of Sounds Project is now live! Listen to 100 re-interpretations of 100 recordings in the Pitt Rivers sound archive, made over the past 100 years

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Cara Rumblings EP
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

Cara Rumblings EP

Cara Rumblings EP just released. Experimental music made using samples of the warehouse building I live in. Cara Rumblings transforms the sounds of daily life, objects, appliances, instruments and creatures, as well as the creaks, cracks and hums of the building itself into a new sonic world.

 

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Fractured Earth at L.A.B
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

Fractured Earth at L.A.B

Fractured Earth — Remembering Darfur is an immersive night where sound becomes awareness — a collective act of listening to a world in fracture. Through drones, granular textures, and decaying harmonics, artists translate the silent crisis in Sudan into a shared sensory terrain: a landscape carved from resonance, rupture, and noise.

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Cosmic Render
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

Cosmic Render

I’m performing my live sound work at Cosmic Render on the 31st August!

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Outside in/Inside Out
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

Outside in/Inside Out

I'll be leading an embodied mapping workshop at Kings College on weds 21st May, along with others from Livingmaps Network exploring bodies and our relationships to our environments, and our mental and physical health from different perspectives.

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A_N Bursary
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

A_N Bursary

I’ve been awarded a professional development bursary to develop the role of sound within my art practice.

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Cities and Memory: Autumn Sounds
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

Cities and Memory: Autumn Sounds

Composed entirely from elements sampled from Cities and Memory's recording of a creaking gangplank at Tallinn harbour, Estonia, This track features as part of Autumn Sounds, Cities and Memory 2024.

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Cities and Memory: Migration Sounds
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

Cities and Memory: Migration Sounds

My track "Binario 2" is part of the Cities and Memory “Migration Sounds” project. It features 120 field recordings from around the world relating to migration in its broadest sense, and 120 remixes of those recordings interpreted in various ways.

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A visit to my studio
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

A visit to my studio

A short video of me talking about my work, when ArtxArtists came for a visit

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Mapping Porous Borders
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

Mapping Porous Borders

4 short videos exploring sonic and visual textures in my neighbourhood, for Mapping Future Imaginaries online exhibition

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De-constructions
Kimbal Bumstead Kimbal Bumstead

De-constructions

Digging deeper, exploring what is underneath the surface. New directions in painting….

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