Tom Lye
Bio
Selected Works
Centre for Research Architecture
Echoes
Reverberations
Interference with Montez Press Radio
Green Clydeside, Transition Security Project with Common Wealth
DRAMA Working Group, Performing Arts Forum
Wet Waves Radio Collective, Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre
Summer University, Performing Arts Forum
Alternating Currents, Dublin Digital Radio
‘Buildinghostransmissions’ Archive Listening Session, Cubitt Gallery
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Podcast, FACT Liverpool
MA Research Architecture 2025
Goldsmiths, University of Londonresearch-architecture.org
This Weathered Image of Planetary Sound: Bidston Observatory as Technical Land and Logistical Media
A sonic and archival investigation into the emergence of modern weather practices in the port city. By exploring the accumulative media of the observatory, this research examines how Bidston Observatory became a vital site of industrial management and dominance over time and tides for the city of Liverpool, enabling commerce, insurance and modern logistic through industrialised timekeeping and weather-making in the 19th and 20th century.
Echoes
Book ContributionCentre for Research Architecture
September 2025
A collaborative publication produced as part of the output for the Centre for Research Architecture Masters Programme.
ISBN 978-1-0369-3576-4
Reverberations
Exhibition, installation and AVCentre for Research Architecture
September 2025
An exhibition and public platform produced as part of the output for the Centre for Research Architecture Masters Programme.
Photographs courtesy of Studio Adamnson
Interference: Water
Radio BroadcastCentre for Research Architecture & Montez Press Radio
28 September 2025
Four sound pieces from Research Architecture MA students exploring the sonic tendancies of water.
Weathered Image, Planetary Sound forms an excavation of logistical media developed at Bidston Observatory, historically a site of maritime sensing and timekeeping for the city of Liverpool. Departing from the planerary sonicity of DIY satellite imagery and earth radio, this project sounds out an acoustemology of the site and its environmental surveillance techniques through field recording, open reception and synthesis.
Interference: Radio Al-Hara
Radio InterviewCentre for Rese arch Architecture & Montez Press Radio
28 September 2025
An interview by CRA students Tom Lye and Lene Tassin de Montaigu with Radio Al-Hara founders Yousef Anastas and Saeed Abu Jaber, talking about radio as a space-making practice and living archive.
Green Clydeside: Modelling Military Industrial Conversion
Voiceover Production and Audio EngineeringTransition Security Project (Common Wealth)
October 2025
A video and modelling project led by Pinelópi Gardika, Leela Jadhav and Khem Rhogaly that explores the potential for industrial green conversion of shipbuilding sites on the River Clyde for wind turbine production.
This project required voiceover audio engineering and post production.
Find out more: https://transitionsecurity.org/green-clydeside/
DRAMA
Mediation
Working Group
Performing Arts Forum
March 2025 - Present
This gathering is an invitation to study practices of mediation and accountability in self-organised environments. Drama happened for the first time in March 2025 and is part of the research of PAF´s Mediation working group, which looks for ways to move through the practical, emotional, and at times intense challenges that arise in the transient collectivities that make PAF.
While PAF will be the main focus of this gathering, we hope that the fruits of this meeting will be of use to other spaces and projects that want to go beyond the twin temptations of cancel culture and carceral logic. In this sense, we heartily invite people from other collectives and initiatives to join us, share their experiences, and take the chance to un/learn and study together.
Find out more here.
Wet Waves
Working Group
Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre
September 2022 - May 2023
A 'working week' at Bidston Observatory with activities and interactions for stayers throughout, grounded in broadcast media and sonic theory. This will include discussions, screenings, workshops and live broadcasts - organised by and for stayers under the rough & ready technical glitch that is otherwise known as DOMES FM.
Find out more here.
Sedimentary Zoning Practices & Sonic Afterlives in the Port City
Alternating Current, Dublin Digital Radio
May 2025
If the Fluxus score explores relationality in the city, how could stage directions explore relationality in the media(ted) city; where radio is heard autonomously and in constant movement, from passing car windows or wireless headphones that process or prevent ambient external sound from entering our individuated cinematic worlds with the click of a button and the wheel of a window.With discussion on the cinematic visuality and media-time of the port city brandscape, this intervention will entail a sounding through stage directions and scripts. A sounding of the city as an architectural archeological investigation of depth and verticality and unknowing, where stage directions invite continuous reception to urban environments. Using the plays of Walter Benjamin and his particular radiophonic terrain, these entanglements can be pulled apart and re-presented like a spectrogram, as we are invited to consider the contemporary sonic staging in which capitalism currently performs and how it can be manipulated by radio-makers in our subjective stations of relation.
‘Buildinghostransmissions’ Archive Listening Session
Cubitt Gallery
May 2025
Pulled from the archive, ‘Buildinghosttransmissions’ is a ‘sonic architecture’ and publication, by the Antwerp-based artist collective Building Transmissions, commissioned by then Cubitt Curatorial Fellow, David Bussel.
Together we will reactivate the work, reading and listening, as we explore themes of space, maintenance, hospitality and speculative finance. We will redraw connections and spectral traces from Thailand to Antwerp to London, from early 2000s boom and bust economies to contemporary neoliberal realities.
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Podcast
FACT Liverpool
May - October 2024
Listen to the personal stories and reflections of Alex, Mel and Luke - three young people who are currently being treated for cancer or who recently completed cancer treatment - as they share their unique perspectives in this experimental podcast produced by Domes FM in collaboration with The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre’s Teenage and Young Adult Service.
Listen and find out more here.