Phil Coy: Hydro Electric Domestic
6 November – 12 December 2026
Preview: Thursday 5 November 6.30pm–9pm
Open Thursday–Saturday 12–6pm
Sonic broadcast live 24/7 from Flat Time House
Hydro Electric Domestic transposes Phil Coy’s site-sensitive deep listening sound installation Sixty Beats Per Minute to the physical spaces of Flat Time House, itself a conceptual articulation of John Latham’s time-based theories. Transforming Flat Time House into a sonic time-machine and live film score, the domestic interior is prepared to perform a live pulse mixed with details of Peckham’s ambient soundscape.
This new site-sensitive sound installation celebrates the launch of Phil Coy’s debut album 60bpm 33bpm released on Flaming Pines.
Phil Coy’s approach is sensitive to materials, site and context. Formerly trained in sculpture, works employ a hybrid collage of concepts and processes. Particularly they have interrogated human exploitation of the landscape through the intersection of digital and analogue technologies. Sequential works examine the architecture of the archive, and the networked image alongside technologies of surveillance and self-surveillance.
He has shown extensively at galleries and film festivals and has created site-specific and public commissions in the UK and internationally, exhibiting at venues including Matt’s Gallery, London; South London Gallery; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire; Arnolfini, Bristol; Dan Graham’s pavilion at Hayward Gallery; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; the National Maritime Museum, London; Living Art Museum, Reykjavik; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Theatre Guild Tokyo, Japan; York Art Gallery; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; Focal Point Gallery, Southend; Siobhan Davies Studios, London; Grimshaw Architects, London Festival of Architecture; Sainsbury’s Centre, Norwich; EVA Biennale, Limerick; Whitstable Biennale; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Volt, Bergen, Norway and the Aldeburgh Music festival amongst others.
His mediative sound works have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Late Junction and Resonance FM. The deep listening sound installation Stereo Pair is permanently installed at Brunel University, London. The publication ‘Stereo Pair,’ documenting the making of the site sensitive sound sculpture and including essays by Jennifer Lucy Allen, Lee Mackinnon and Will Self was published by Slimvolume in 2026.
60bpm 33rpm is Phil Coy’s debut vinyl release, produced as a sculptural object that makes a direct physical relationship between the concentric grooves of a vinyl record and the circular mechanics of a clock.
60bpm 33rpm includes an 18-minute stereo recording of sixty beats per minute, the live 24/7 two-month surround sound installation and time machine that amplified the sound of an 1829 Benjamin Vulliamy Turret Clock, into the extraordinary acoustic architecture of St. Georges church nave in Ramsgate. Recorded just before 5am it captures the installation as it cycles from real time to recorded and reversed time, live mixed with the evocative soundscape of an English seaside town during dawn chorus.
On the flip side Phil Coy invited Adrian Sherwood to produce a dub-mix of sixty beats per minute. Here the mechanics and beat of an eroded colonial era architecture break down across Sherwood’s four-track composition, infused with melodies and history of his seasoned dub sensibility. Mixed live through his analogue desk and a range of vintage delay and echo at On-u sound studios, the mix features Mark Bandolla on Guitar and Keyboards, Duncan Mackay on Trumpet, Alex White (Fat White Family and Primal Scream) on Saxophone and Flute and Ivan Hussey on Cello.
60BPM 33RPM is available for pre-order with Flaming Pines from 01 May 2026 and released on 26 June 2026 in a limited edition of 100 in black vinyl.
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Phil Coy, Sixty Beats Per Minute, 2025 (detail) 1829 mechanical turret clock, microphones + live 8.1 channel sound installation, custom software, live internet radio stream, modular LED matrix display, timecode generator, scaffold
HMV executives and relatives of the artist Francis Barraud watch the exhumation of Nipper the dog, subject of his famous painting ‘His Masters Voice’ (1898), courtesy of EMI Archive Trust”
OFFSITE:
Phil Coy – Stereo Pair Book Launch and Screening
London College of Communication, UAL
Friday October 2, 6pm - 8pm
The Stanley Kubrick Archive at University of the Arts London invites you to a film screening and panel discussion to celebrate the launch of Phil Coy’s new photobook Stereo Pair and premiere of the accompanying film Organ (both 2026).
Also shown will be the recently remastered Sound Mirror (1999), together with a rare screening of the Alan Blumlein’s first stereo films courtesy of the BFI.
The screening programme is followed by an in-conversation with Lee Mackinnon, Phil Coy and Stanley Kubrick Archivist, Georgina Orgill, and a chance for guests to see and handle material from the Stanley Kubrick Archive. Signed copies of the book will be available to purchase.