FPG Sounds: Billie Baxter, ’A fine little edge to slip in’

Focal Point Gallery is pleased to announce the eleventh commission as part of ‘FPG Sounds’, an online project to support the development of new sound works by artists from or based in Southend-on-Sea.

 

For this commission, multidisciplinary sound and visual artist Billie Baxter has created an explorative audio journey through their hometown of Southend. Recorded in November 2021 whilst visiting close friends back home, 'A fine little edge to slip in' is layered with field recordings, synth experiments, throat exercises, Foley and effects in what the artist describes as a "sound nugget terrazzo". Interested in how the listener can discern between the original recording and layered sound, the work collages together recognisable and abstract moments to contrast the mundane with the bizarre.

Billie Baxter is a multidisciplinary sound and visual artist interested in communication, anthropology, folklore, processing memories, and finding beauty in the everyday. She studied Illustration at University of Brighton, and is currently based in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.