I feel inspired by the living world's dynamic, and its mystery.
By its textures, light and hidden depth, its infinite colours, the microscopic details and expanded horizons or the patterns looking out of a plane's wee window. I am inspired by love, friendships, and all the wonderful beings, human and more-than-human.
Love to explore solo and, more so, collectively; with space, sound, words, movement, objects and paper. One might find me playing with the Playgroup, RAR or Ubu Warp Cheer, free‑improvisation bands in Glasgow.
I am deeply moved by connection, Interbeing* and all this living and dying.
While I’m building a portfolio
on creative‑placemaking and developing facilitation experience, I’m actively seeking residencies, funding partners and fellow makers who share curiosity for emergent, co-creative and ecologically‑inspired processes.
Designing urban landscapes
in Portugal and Scotland taught me to read subtle dialogues between terrain, shifting fluxes, landscape ecologies, light, water and vegetation communities.
I relate to nature's and street's discarded materials and sounds
in collaborative ways that breathe, move, connect and listen—guided by curiosity rather than a set plan, and an open heart to emerging possibilities.
Memberships
2025 - The Workroom member
2025 - SAU member - Scotish Artists Union
2025 - PA member - Permaculture Association
2024 - WWDN member
What We Do Now Creative Placemaking
2014 - CLMI - Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute
I bring endless curiosity and an empathic nature informed by formal learning and unbounded play, connecting with others and nature.
Hoping to make relations out of things, questions out of answers, and voices out of listenings, echoing the rhythms and happenings around us.
RAR @Glad Café Aug24
image by Stuart Reidman
@blackmagicplastic
Formal Education
Jan/May 2025 - Permaculture Teacher Training with Focus on Children @ Catalunya, Spain
Permaculture Design Course @ Scotland
2024/2025 - Creative Placemaking - Online training sessions with WWDN, Scotland. Creative Placemaking, Safeguarding, Finance and Tax.
2011–2012 - Master in Landscape Architecture (Hons). Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon.
2008 - Sculpture at Instituto de Artes e Oficios, Lisbon
2007 - Sculpture at ARCO, Lisbon
2001 - Erasmus – Barcelona School of Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,Barcelona
1997-1999 Weekly life drawing classes
at Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon
1995–2003 - Licentiate's Degree in Landscape Architecture (Hons). Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon
PortfolioDownload
Landscape Architcture Portfolio
I worked in landscape architecture
for 25 years. Learned about science and the living world dynamics; subjects like landscape ecology, phytogeography, pedology, permaculture, or life-drawing and sculpture.
Performance/Sound skills
Free improviser .
Live musician and performer .
Multi instrumentalist and Interdisciplinary artist . Sound composition and sound archivist.
Voice & other instruments
My voice is usually at the heart of the sound explorations—whether I’m speaking, humming, vocalising guttural expressions, or turning breath into rhythm. I frequently use a 12‑hole chromatic harmonica (48 tones), a trusty primary‑school recorder, plus piano, MIDI keyboard, a tum‑piano, a classic guitar and a djembe. I was recently gifted a clarinet and a tenor saxophone, which I am just starting to try and explore.
Hardware & digital tools
I trigger effects on a Korg Kaos Pad, layer synths and field recordings via MIDI into Cubasis 3 on my iPad, and capture everything with either my iPhone or a rugged SM58 (vocals) plus a Rode NT5 condenser for percussive detail.
I use a few iPhone apps for live improvisation, such as MobiMuPlat, Flynth and a note recogniser that occasionally adds a great reverb effect.
Hand‑made & found instruments
improvised sources
I have a clay‑crafted ocarina I made over two decades ago; I also play a bike wheel found on the street and sing through a traffic cone.
I use driftwood, bottle‑neck resonators, bike‑cog pieces and other nature‑ and street‑found bits in spontaneous percussion, and find sounds in any resonant object—tubes, glass bottles, mallets, jars, metal tins, wooden chimes, bicycle cogs, broken handles, twigs, dried seeds, newspaper, plastic… The collection is in constant transformation.
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Dada Dynamics @QMU May24
Brian Hartley
@stillmotionarts
Venues/Locations
Queen Margaret’s Tunnel, Glasgow
The Glad Café, Glasgow
McNeils, Glasgow
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
The Tollbooth, Stirling
St. Ninians Church, Glasgow
The Whitespace, Edinburgh
Mediterranea, Stirling
City Halls, Glasgow
Nice and Sleezy, Glasgow
Festivals & events
Interesting Things, Stirling
Tectonics, Glasgow
GIO Dynamics, Glasgow
1.5 Months, Glasgow
Soup Zuppa, Glasgow