artist bio - jimmy peggie
jimmy peggie is a scottish-born, arizona-based interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, image, and environment. his practice spans experimental sound art, radio art, and photography, with a focus on impermanence, decay, and the textures of natural and urban landscapes.
working with field recordings, ambient soundscapes, and visual media, his work evokes forgotten spaces, distant transmissions, and the poetics of erosion. he began experimenting with environmental sound in the 1970s and has since produced over 40 audio releases, exhibited internationally, and participated in sound art festivals across europe and north america.
he is the host of the monthly radio art program sound across distance and the founder of neonvox, an independent sound label supporting experimental and ambient works. he is a co-founder of sound art arizona. his installations and performances have been featured at venues such as iklectik (london), radiophrenia (glasgow), studio em04 (berlin), and the phoenix art museum.
through minimalist processes and a commitment to deep listening and an exploration of sound as memory, space, and transformation.
he works in the spaces where landscape meets decay; nature meets urban ruin; time meets imperfection. Themes include:
impermanence: the idea that nothing is static, everything changes.
decay and found objects: using decaying fragments, found material, atmospheric elements to evoke place, memory, time.
sound as texture: listening as a process of noticing small, often undervalued sonic events — echoes, loops ambience, transmissions.
transmission, distance, and abstraction: radio, sound across space, minimalism in form, abstraction in perception.
www.jimmypeggie.com
