A Midlands based sound, image and locative media artist, informed by psychogeography and Deep Canine Topography (O'Brien and O'Brien 2018). 
Currently a postgraduate researcher at Nottingham Trent University, investigating human-canine-landscape hybrid practice. NTU-M4C_2019.

Darren O'Brien

This short sound work maps the 70 year history of the Great Central Railway, as it might have been heard from Bede Street Community Garden.

One horse, two steam trains, a Deltic diesel train and an airplane, make up this short soundscape mapping the 70 year history of the Great Central Railway, which operated between 1899 and 1969. Trains traveled across the Bede Street Arches and the Bow String Bridge, on the approach to Great Central Station, just north of this site.

Darren O’Brien is a UK based multidisciplinary artist currently undertaking an AHRC funded PhD at Nottingham Trent University titled ‘Deep Canine Topography’ which explores Human-Canine collaborative walking practice. O’Brien’s practice utilises Psychogeography and counter-cartographic methods to integrate extended ideas of landscape art practice through photography, moving image, locative media, drawing, sound, and immersive installation. He is specifically interested in exploring how we move through landscape and how we engage with more than human worlds through sensory entanglement.

Bede Street GCR Soundscape

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