Ruaridh Law // Art & Music   email ruaridh@gmail.com
A Sea Of Cogs (2021-2022)

5 Films & performance (UNFIX, online, 2021)
Poetry book (<blink>, 2022) (in collaboration with Matt Nish-Lapidus 2022)

 A series of 5 films/interviews with a generative soundtrack, and accompanying performance
You can see more details on the Unfix site 

A Sea Of Cogs is a series of short films (presented both as streaming On Demand, and woven together into a singular live performance), focusing on interviews with individuals who have lost work and their sense of self during the pandemic. Told through Zoom interviews, visualised data, and excerpts from Ursula Le Guin’s novel “The Dispossessed”, it strives to map out how we can all move forwards after we leave the walls built around us.

You can see a lovely review from The Wire here

Keywords: redundancy, job loss, career identity, data visualisation, generative vocal derived drone, Ursula K. Le Guin





>Ruaridh Law is an artist and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

>Over 20 years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist. His >mediums include sound and installation art, film and writing. His works have ranged from intimate audio performance and gallery installations to large-scale outdoor works >combining sound walks, improvised performance and experimental storytelling.

>His artistic focusses are on data-visualisation, human voices and their stories, unusual paradigms for performance and composing, and marrying abstraction to a beating human >heart. These have manifested themselves in a tarot deck that generates music, sequential stories told over film and radio, right-wing propaganda twisted and sanitised into more >worthwhile content and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night – as well as countless CD, DVD, vinyl and other music releases.

>He runs several record labels and, more recently, No Roof Only Sky, a small press publisher.