// Biography
Daniel John Jones is an artist and technologist whose work explores new ways in which sound and technology can illuminate our understanding of the world, translating patterns and data into living musical forms.
His BAFTA-nominated practice spans topics ranging from bacterial dynamics to network infrastructures, and has been shown at venues including the Centre Pompidou, Barbican, the Museum of Science and Industry, IRCAM, the Southbank Centre, and the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
In his studio practice as part of Jones/Bulley, this involves creating large-scale sculptural sound installations, exploring forest ecosystems (Living Symphonies, 2014-2023), global audio ecologies (Maelstrom, 2012-2022), FM radio broadcasts (Radio Reconstructions, 2012-), and weather systems (Variable 4, 2011-).
Other works and collaborations include Infraordinary FM (with Seb Emina, 2023), a 24/7 streaming radio station that uses state-of-the-art synthetic voices to deliver real-time news about quotidian events happening around the world; Phantom Terrains (with Frank Swain, 2014), a hearing augmentation that allows the listener to hear the invisible landscapes of wireless networks around them; Global Breakfast Radio (with Seb Emina, 2014-), an autonomous radio station that broadcasts live radio from wherever the sun is rising; Project Adrift (2016-), creating orbital simulations and visualisations as part of an interdisciplinary team of artists and scientists responding to the growing challenges of space debris (shown at the Royal Geographical Institute, the Royal Institute of Great Britain and the Science Museum); The Listening Machine (with Peter Gregson, 2012), a 6-month-long online composition which translates social network dynamics into a piece of orchestral music, recorded with Britten Sinfonia and commissioned by the BBC/Arts Council's The Space; Horizontal Transmission (2011), a digital simulation of bacterial communication mechanisms; and AtomSwarm (2006), a musical performance system based upon swarm dynamics.