SATSYMPH is located audio designer, poet and writer Ralph Hoyte, coder, composer and audio engineer Phill Phelps, composer and visual artist Marc Yeats. We have a common interest in composing interactive, spatialised soundart and dramatised heritage scenarios accessed through the smartphone either in real-world physical environments, or ‘in armchair mode’.
We, the Bristol-based artist, filmmaker and producer, Simone Einfalt and the Bristol poet, writer and located audio designer Ralph Hoyte are delighted to be working with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) on our ‘The Three Waters’ scoping study at Steart Marshes (Bridgwater Bay/Somerset/England) from early September 2025. We are hugely excited to be part
The Temple of Hermes: you are honoured: few are allowed to enter, and none leave unaltered, for he is a mercurial god. Satsymph have laid out his Temple in Girona, and your smartphone is your sole means of access.
GPS, geo-poetic system
Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).
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