Action Pyramid

Working under the name Action Pyramid, Tom Fisher’s projects vary from site-specific sound installations for galleries and museums, to experimental sound works, radio productions, documentary and music. Utilising a multitude of recording techniques, often aimed at exploring and re-interpreting the seemingly unnoticed and unheard elements of our surroundings, he looks to present compositional and spatial expressions of these phenomena in a way that attempts to offer up alternative perspectives regarding perceptions of scale, hierarchical bias and the interconnectedness of living things.

He has performed and exhibited his work internationally, attending artist residencies in Türkiye, Colombia, Iceland and the Finish arctic as well as being the recipient of the Phonurgia Nova Field Recording award.

He has worked extensively with freshwater soundscapes, including creating a year-long hydrophone listening post and two multichannel compositions based on the underwater sounds of London’s River Lea. He also collaborated with freshwater ecoacoustician Jack Greenhalgh on an album exploring the hidden soundworlds of ponds and has contributed to the Freshwater Sounds Archive, an open-access global database of sounds produced by soniferous freshwater species.