Ruaridh Law // Art & Music   email ruaridh@gmail.com
Territory (2021 / 2025)

Performance for walk and turntables (BEAST online, Further_In 01-21)
Performance for phoned-in walk and single turntable (Radiophrenia, 2025)

Territory is a performance interface for playing back and combining walks.

It was originally conceived as a way to perform in locations far away from my own home, to allow the area that I live, work and spend my time in to be mapped onto the location I was performing in. Then it became a way to DJ with two maps and recorded walks between two very disparate locations

Using maps, field recordings, photos and oral recollection to record the walk itself, these are mapped onto the position of a turntable needle across vinyl. As the needle moves towards the centre, so too does the walk map out across the screen - and manipulation of the vinyl, needle position, direction etc allows the walk to be manipulated in real time.




>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.