Focusing on sound as material and subject, French’s work over several decades has involved installation, composition, improvisation, scores, film and photography. He holds conversations in various contexts and co-curates, alongside his daughter, the artist Pheobe riley Law, highly acclaimed workshops / gatherings on various aspects of sound & listening. He is widely known for developing and expanding the use of extended listening and recording techniques and the role of durational listening. The JrF range of specialist microphones have become firmly established across sound and music culture. “I work extensively on long form recordings of surfaces, spaces and situations, and developing the concept of photographic scores and ‘scores for listening’. Much of my research has concentrated on systems of perception, with a particular emphasis on our (human) translation of place’.” Aspects of his work have been shown or performed at venues including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Paradise Air (Japan), SonicActs (Amsterdam), Spikersuppa Lydgalleri (Norway), Steklenik (Slovenia) etc. Key works capture the sound of minerals dissolving, ants consuming fallen fruit, buildings vibrating, teleferica’s interacting with locales, the infrasound of domestic spaces, borders sounding and the tonal resonances of objects.