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To all celebrate birds and acknowledge their plight in the global extinction crisis, we invite you to fold you own origami bird – below is a guide video. Tweet a photo of your bird using the hashtag #ChirpDriftOxford.  If […]

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This new online edition of Chirp & Drift premieres for Oxford’s Christmas Lights Festival with a special focus on Blackbird Leys and Greater Leys, taking inspiration from the many streets that are named after birds. You can interact […]

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Interact with a flock of moving, glowing musical sculptures as they perform their dusk-time chorus This new online, interactive edition of Chirp & Drift has been created by Kathy Hinde specially for Blackbird Leys and Oxford’s Christmas Light […]

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Chirp & Drift is a flock of illuminated instruments that chatter in morse code messages, some of which are de-coded into fragments of projected text, and others dissolve into nighttime whispers. The flock of instruments are hand-made bird-like kinetic […]

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I was joined by Poet Sarah Hymas and writer and conservationist Laurence Rose for a discussion chaired by Alice Booth at the Gregson, following a Chirp & Dirft walk and workshop at Leighton Moss in January 2019. Fresh […]

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We held a winter Chirp&Drift workshop at RSPB Leighton Moss in late January, again, in collaboration with Sarah Hymas and Laurence Rose. We decided to focus on ideas around ‘flocking’ behaviour, as it was the time of year for […]

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CHIRP & DRIFT  :  TALK  :  CONNECTING NATURE, ECOLOGY AND ART  :  How do we engage with what matters? Sunday 27th January 2019 : 8pm-9pm,  The Olive Room, upstairs at The Gregson Centre, Moor Gate, Lancaster FREE ENTRY Artist Kathy […]

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BIRD MIGRATION WALK & WORKSHOP Sunday 27th January 2019 : 12pm – 5:30pm * at Leighton Moss RSPB Reserve  Join us for a walk with bird expert and writer Laurence Rose at stunningly beautiful Leighton Moss RSPB Reserve. Listen, watch […]
On Tuesday 14th August, Kathy Hinde and Matthew Olden ran a Chirp & Drift workshop at Knowle West Media Centre’s Fabrication lab, The Factory in Bristol. After a brief introduction to their work and ongoing collaborations, Kathy and Matthew […]

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My interest in radio grew from recent iterations of a work I’ve been developing called Twittering Machines . This installation combines a machine listening to morse code automatically translating it into text live, sometimes getting confused by interruptions. This is […]