Somatic listening using a contact mic, hydrophone and Tascam. Recordings later featured in the vibroacoustic installation Chora
2026

The Piano's Broken Harp
Untuned piano harp, wood, contact mic, speakers
2026

Coire Simpson

My name’s Coire, I’m from West Lothian and based in Glasgow. I completed my undergraduate degree at the Glasgow School of Art in 2022, where I also studied on MFA programme. In 2022, I was awarded the School of Fine Art Essay Prize for my essay Ghost Stories and was selected for New Contemporaries, exhibiting with the programme in 2025. My practice revolves around sound and vibration, through which I draw upon notions and motions of embodiment, affect, sonic agency and expanded ideas of listening.

My practice navigates entanglements of time, space and being, approached through embodied knowledge and listening practices. I consider how sensory perception shapes our understanding of self and world, exploring ways of opening to and connecting with the vitality in all we encounter. Working with sound and vibration, I intend to bring attention to our relational existence and create spaces where demands of coherence and composure unravel, where we may become porous.

Before thought, frequencies modulate us. Intensities pass between bodies and environments, producing states that disrupt isolated individualism and hegemonic understanding. I believe sounding and listening can be emancipatory acts which allow for complexity, plurality and responsivity.

My work inhabits these vibrational moments, in which the play between proximity/distance, familiarity/difference, form/formlessness becomes sensible.