about

 

Jimmy Peggie is a Scottish born sound artist based in Phoenix, AZ.  His artistic work is focused on environments - including atmospheres, radio transmissions, and repetitive fragments.   An appreciation that all things are abstract and in a state of flux - ever changing, imperfect and incomplete.

He also incorporates reductive still and moving images as part of his creative practice using this medium to help identify a sense of place, natural processes and the transient nature of all things.

He has close interactions with artists from around the world and has had work included at many galleries and art spaces.  He currently records a monthly sound art radio show entitled 'Sound Across Distance' for Camp Radio from France. He has participated in 40+ albums.

"painting with sound" - Data Cult Audio

His work has been featured at Iklectik Arts Space (London), Barcelona Festival of Sound Art, Radiophrenia Radio Arts Festival (Glasgow), Framework Radio (Europe), Studio EM04 (Berlin), Max Protetch Gallery (NYC), Currents 826 Gallery (Santa Fe), Phoenix Art Museum, Tempe Center for the Arts, Arizona Science Center, Arizona State University and more. He has operated a small record label - neonvox since 1995. He is a member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE) and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

STATEMENT


"Sonic explorations that lend to an abstracted and textural approach to sound work incorporating environmental recordings, decaying fragments and radiophonic atmospheres. An appreciation that all things are impermanent, imperfect and incomplete." jimmy

DISCOGRAPHY

Subterranean Jazz - Subterranean


Juarez - Nashville EP


Jimmy Peggie - Still Life Leads To Concrete Walls


Subterranean Jazz - Subway Sonnets


The Clair Voyants - County USA


Brid Dower - Comings and Goings


Jim Pipkin - Time is Talking


Subterranean Jazz - Celtic Lines


Caji - Da Bahia

Deb Myking - The Journey to May


Adam Panic - Wonderful


The Human Mirror


Trio Nine - Incandescent Cinema


Jimmy Peggie / Steve Jansen - Pharmaceutica


Jimmy Peggie - Mans Eternal Challenge


Jimmy Peggie / Steve Jansen - Budapest


Jimmy Peggie - Learning to Die


Health Channel - Sit Ups for your Soul


Jimmy Peggie - The Energy of Contemplation


Angelo Hart - Storyteller


-Pi/Pe- - un anno di ascolto


Jimmy Peggie - I Walk Amongst You, And Leave No Trace


Jimmy Peggie - Resting Places


Jimmy Peggie - Isolation Studies


Jimmy Peggie - Universe Inside | Universe Outside


Jimmy Peggie - Upon a Narrow Inquiry


Jimmy Peggie / Steve Jansen - In Paradise


Jimmy Peggie - Ghost Towns of Arizona


Jimmy Peggie - Quiet Impermanence


Jimmy Peggie - Light in a Lonely Landscape


Openscore Ensemble - Manifold Landscapes


Jimmy Peggie - Sound Across Distance


Jimmy Peggie - Timeless & Infinite


Jimmy Peggie - Infinitude of Dust


Jimmy Peggie - Yeseros de Piscina


Jimmy Peggie - Desolate Surfaces


British Sports Car/Jimmy Peggie - Limiting the Frame


Hito Anso - Between Two Eternities of Darkness


Jimmy Peggie - Book of Erosion


Also recordings appearing on:


Cities and Memory - Three Words

Hainbach - Old Suns

Kate Carr - Where To Begin


Unexplained Sounds Group - IDIL Music Award 2024

REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS ETC

Sun-13 – review of Book of Erosion

Moonbuilding Mag – review of Book of Erosion

Audio Crakle – review of Limiting the Frame album

The Quietus Magazine – mention

KJZZ Public Radio – interview with Jimmy Peggie

The Wire Magazine – about the Experimental Arizona film

Phoenix New Times – about the Experimental Arizona film

Iklectik [Off-Site] co-producing Experimental Arizona, curated by Jimmy Peggie

The Wire Magazine review of Ghost Towns of Arizona – Dec 2020

Framework Radio Show Framework Radio Show October 2020 2018

Interiorities Show – Fanorama 2020

Data Cult Audio – Featured Artist 2019

La Phoenikera – Spanish Article 2019

Framework Radio Show 2018

Angelo Hart – Storyteller Review – All About Jazz 2017

Concert Recording – 2016

Outrospect – Dance Music

Celtic Lines Review – Jazz Review 2005

Amazon Reviews – Amazon

Celtic Lines – Release 2005

Arizona Republic Feature – 2005

Brid Dower’s Comings and Goings – 2003

Subway Sonnets Review – All About Jazz 2002

ARCHIVE

1974 - First field recording experiments


1978 - Art exhibition at Perth Art Gallery, Scotland (oil paintings)


1979 - First musical performance


1979 - 1983 Oil painting exhibits in Perth, Scotland


1991 to Current - Music/Sound Recording & Performance


2004 - 2010 - Music Instructor


2003 - Scottsdale/Glendale Community Colleges - Artist Performances


2013 - Semco - YouTube, Video and Social Media - Artist Presentation


2014 - American Marketing Association - Sound and Video in Social Media - Artist Presentation


2017 - Co-founder of Sound Art Arizona


2018 - Scottsdale Community College - Artist Performance and Discussion


2018 - Tempe Public Library - Sound Art Workshop Series


2018 - Sound Healing Certification


2018 - Recorded Jeph Jerman and Steve Jansen live at Trunk Space


2019 - Co-founder and curator of Playground Arts


2020 - Presented workshop on Creativity and Alternative Sound Sources at Phoenix Synthesizer Festival


2020 - Sound and Video composition included on Desert Stories for Corpus Aliena at Iklectic UK Art Space Sept 2020


2020 - Framework Radio - tracks on show - October 2020

2020 - Radiophrenia - included in 2 week exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts.

2021 - Performance at the Phoenix Synth Festival 2021


2021 - Performance at the Electronic Music Symposium 2021

2021 - Presentation to composition students at Arizona State University.


2021 - Performance at the Southwest Electronic Music Festival.


2021 - Acoustic Ecology Certificate - Professor Barry Truax, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.


2022 - Radiophrenia - participation in  radio art festival from Glasgow, Scotland.


2023 - Collaboration sound/artwork in Resonance exhibit at Currents 826 Gallery - Santa Fe, NM


2023 - Host of the Sound Across Distance monthly radio show on Camp Radio


2023 - Radiophrenia - participation in radio art festival from Glasgow, Scotland.


2023 - Collaborative project with filmmaker Karo Goldt showing at Studio EM04 in Berlin Germany.

2024 - Participated in Strobe Sound & Video Festival, Las Vegas

2024 - Presented a radio show for RadioArt 109

OTHER


Jimmy Peggie is an artist specializing in sound, video and photography. His main interests include sound art, location recording, radio explorations, textures, microsound, transmissions, abstractions, decay, found media, architectural acoustics, archaeology, earth sciences, geography, nature, ecology, cinema, film, art, running, yoga, zen, wabi sabi, minimalism, improvisation, chance, experimentation and inquiry.