Composition
Drever, John L. and Upton, Lawrence. 2016. Porth Dances & Sings.
Upton, Lawrence and Drever, John L.. 2011. NAMELY.
Drever, John L.. 2007. audience : hearing.
Drever, John L.. 2006. -scape.
Drever, John L.. 2005. Close to the Literal.
Drever, John L.. 2003. Phonographies of Exeter.
Drever, John L.. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong.
Drever, John L.. Sounding Soundscape.
Performance
Drever, John L.. 2019. Sanitary Tones: Ayre #3 [Leicester]. In: "AURAL DIVERSITY: SECOND CONCERT", Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2019. Sanitary Tones: Ayre #3 [Kelston]. In: "First Aural Diversity Concert", Old Barn, Kelston Roundhill, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L. and Thatcher, Tony. 2010. -scape [Goodwins] - making horizontal (The Pavilion Gallery). In: "Royal Geographical Society, Institute ofBritish Geographers,Annual InternationalConference", Pavilion Gallery, Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2008. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong (Faire une ambiance / Creating an Atmosphere). In: "Faire une ambiance / Creating an Atmosphere", Musée de Grenoble, France.
Drever, John L.. 2008. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong (Launch of Sound Practice Research). In: "Launch of Sound Practice Research", Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2008. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong (Music, Sound, and the Re-configuration of Public and Private Space’ CRASSH Symposium). In: "Music, Sound, and the Re-configuration of Public and Private Space’ CRASSH Symposium", University of Cambridge, performance in Kettle’s Yard, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2008. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong (School of Creative Media). In: "School of Creative Media", Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2008. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong (Urban Episodes). In: "Urban Episodes", Osage Soho, Hong Kong, China.
Drever, John L.. 2007. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong (EAR-plugged Festival of Electro-acoustic Music). In: "EAR-plugged Festival of Electro-acoustic Music", The LAB gallery, Dublin, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2006. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong (Sound Practice). In: "Sound Practice", Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2005. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong (Brudenell Social Club, Leeds). In: "Time Festival", Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2005. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong (Camden People’s Theatre). In: "Camden People’s Theatre", London, United Kingdom.
Project
Drever, John L.. 2021. Hearing in Particular: From Auraltypical to Auraldiverse Practice.
Bulley, James; Sahin, Ozden; Spinelli, Emmanuel; Tanaka, Atau; Hosang, Georgina M.; Cubitt, Sean; Drever, John L. and Kanngieser, Anja. 2014. Sound and the City (Natural History Museum).
Aceti, Lanfranco; Jefferies, Janis K.; Sondergaard, Morten; Stallabrass, Julian; Bulley, James; Drever, John L.; Munro, Jonathan; Noy, Irene and Sahin, Ozden. 15 - 17 May 2014 Histories, Theories and Practices of Sound Art.
Drever, John L.. 2-26 April 2014 Sublime-sound-of-the-one-hand [Ryōan-ji].
Drever, John L.. 2012. Sanitary Ambiance: the noise effects of high speed hand dryers.
Audio
Drever, John L.. Cattle Grids of Dartmoor.
Drever, John L.. “The Language of Place: Festival Walk, Harbour City”, Field Recordings selected by Duncan Whitley for ‘The language of place', Audiolab10, March 2010..
Drever, John L.. Phonographies: Glasgow, Frankfurt, Exeter.
Drever, John L.. Sounding Dartmoor.
Drever, John L.. Sounding Dartmoor - a public soundscape study.
Article
Cobianchi, Mattia; Drever, John L. and Lavia, Lisa. 2019. Adaptive soundscape design for liveable urban spaces: a hybrid methodology across environmental acoustics and sonic art. Cities & Health, ISSN 2374-8834
Drever, John L.. 2019. ‘Primacy of the Ear’ – But Whose Ear?: the case for auraldiversity in sonic arts practice and discourse. Organised Sound, 24(1), pp. 85-95. ISSN 1355-7718
Drever, John L.. 2015. Sublime-sound-of-the-one-hand [Ryōan-ji]. FocaalBlog, associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology,
Drever, John L.. 2011. Loo Roles. SoundScape Ezine(2), pp. 57-59.
Drever, John L.. 2008. Review: Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter, Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?: Experiencing Aural Architecture. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28(3), p. 3.
Young, Michael W.; Drever, John L.; Grierson, Mick and Stonehouse, Ian. 2008. Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios: 40 Years. International Computer Music Conference Proceedings 2008, pp. 315-318.
Drever, John L.. 2007. The Dilemma of Noise. Earshot 5: Noise: Debates, Strategies and Methodologies, pp. 3-4.
Drever, John L.. 2005. Of Click and Glitch. Resonance Magazine, 10(1), pp. 52-53.
Drever, John L.. 2005. Bump in the Night: Some Reflections on Night Listening. Earshot(5), pp. 22-25.
Drever, John L.. 2004. Review: Steven Johnson (ed.), The New York School of Music and Visual Arts. The Art Book, 11(4), pp. 45-46.
Drever, John L.. 2004. Sound Fetish Tendencies. Noisegate(12), pp. 4-14.
Drever, John L.. 2002. Soundscape composition: the convergence of ethnography and acousmatic music. Organised Sound, 7(1), pp. 21-27. ISSN 1355-7718
Drever, John L.. 2002. Sounding Dartmoor: A case study on the soundscapes of rural England at the opening of the 21st Century. World Forum for Acoustic Ecology,
Drever, John L.. 1999. The exploitation of 'tangible ghosts': conjectures on soundscape recording and its reappropriation in sound art. Organised Sound, 4(1), pp. 25-29.
Art Object
Drever, John L.. 2016. Sanitary tones: ayre #2. [Dan Dryer].
Drever, John L. and Cook, Christopher. 2015. Acoustic ecology of great places.
Book Section
Drever, John L.. 2020. Listening as Methodological Tool: Sounding Soundwalking Methods. In: Michael Bull and Marcel Cobussen, eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781501338779
Drever, John L.. 2019. Sound Art: Hearing in Particular. In: , ed. Oxford Handbook of Sound Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Drever, John L.. 2019. Soundscape Composition: Listening to Context and Contingency. In: Michael Filimowicz, ed. Foundations in Sound Design for Linear Media: A Multidisciplinary Approach. New York: Routledge, pp. 358-379. ISBN 9781138093966
Drever, John L.. 2017. Field Recording Centered Composition Practices: negotiating the “out-there” with the “in-here". In: M. Cobussen; V. Meelberg and B. Truax, eds. The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art. New York: Routledge, pp. 71-80. ISBN 978-1-138-78061-3
Drever, John L.. 2016. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong. In: R. Cox; A. Irving and Chris Wright, eds. Beyond Text?: Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 110-111. ISBN 978-07190-8505-5
Drever, John L.. 2014. SHIZENGAKU [BIWA/BIWAKO]: SONIC COMPLEMENT, COUNTERPOINT OR INTERPENETRATION? In: Kazuto Yamamoto and Naomi Matsumoto, eds. SHIZENGAKU: the Search for a Coming Aestethetic. Kyoto: Nakanishiya, pp. 52-61. ISBN 978-4-7795-0791-5
Drever, John L.. 2014. John Levack Drever: Creative Sound Thresholds. In: Stephen Piccolo, ed. BE OPEN: The Gallery of the Senses. Segrate, Milan, Italy: Mondadori, pp. 182-185. ISBN none
Drever, John L.. 2009. Sound effect – object – event. Endemic and exogenous electro-acoustic sound practices in theatre. In: Ross Brown, ed. Sound: a reader in theatre practice. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., pp. 188-205. ISBN 9780230551886
Drever, John L.. 2009. Soundwalking: Aural Excursions into the Everyday. In: James Saunders, ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 163-192. ISBN 0754662822
Drever, John L.. 2007. Nostophonics: approaches to grasping everyday sounds from a British perspective. In: Ros Bandt; Michelle Duffy and Dolly MacKinnon, eds. Hearing Places. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 161-173. ISBN 9781847182555
Drever, John L.. 2007. Topophonophilia: a study on the relationship between the sounds of Dartmoor and the people who live there. In: Angus Carlyle, ed. Autumn Leaves: Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice. London: Double Entendre & CRISAP, pp. 98-100. ISBN 09548074-3
Conference or Workshop Item
Drever, John L.. 2020. 'Tinnitus, Auraldiversity and the Arts'. In: The BTA (British Tinnitus Association) Virtual Conference 2020. Online, United Kingdom 5 – 9 October 2020.
Drever, John L.. 2020. 'Primacy of the Ear – But Whose Ear?: The Case for Auraldiversity in Sound and Music Practice and Discourse'. In: Royal Musical Association 56th Annual Conference. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 8 – 10 September 2020.
Drever, John L.. 2020. 'Sanitary Soundscapes: The Noise Effects From Ultra-Rapid “Ecological” Hand Dryers on Vulnerable Subgroups'. In: HAVENS: First meeting (Group of researchers interested in the soundscapes of healthcare). Online, United Kingdom 15 July 2020.
Drever, John L.. 2020. 'Sound Summit 3: Are you listening? Acoustic environments and the politics of sound, noise and silence'. In: Sound Summit 3. Institute for Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, United Kingdom 16 June 2020.
Drever, John L.. 2019. 'Phonating Hand Dryers: exploits in aural diverse composition and co-composition'. In: The first Aural Diversity Conference. University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2018. 'Sound Affects: Exploring the connections between sound and wellbeing - RNTNEH'. In: Sound Affects: Exploring the connections between sound and wellbeing. Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2018. 'Sound Affects: Sound & Wellbeing – Manchester'. In: Sound Affects: Sound & Wellbeing – Manchester. Gorilla, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2018. 'The Role of Improvisation in Auraldiverse Soundwalking'. In: Space, Sound and the Improvisatory: Methods, Technologies and Theories for Improvising with Natural and Built Environments. Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece.
Drever, John L. and Cobianchi, Mattia. 2018. 'Liveable Listenable Cities: Human-Centred Planning and Appraisal of Applied Soundscape Design for an Auraldiverse Population — An Introduction'. In: Crafting a Sonic Urbanism. MSH Paris Nord, France.
Drever, John L.. 2018. 'Sound Affects: Sound & Wellbeing – Brighton'. In: Sound Affects: Sound & Wellbeing – Brighton. The Rose Hill Tavern, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2017. 'The Case For Auraldiversity In Acoustic Regulations And Practice: The Hand Dryer Noise Story'. In: 24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV24). Westminster, London, United Kingdom 23-27 July 2017.
Drever, John L.. 2015. 'Sensitive Hearing in an Auraltypical World'. In: Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics, CRASSH. University of Cambridge.
Drever, John L.. 2015. 'Sanitary Soundscapes: The Noise Effects From Ultra-Rapid “Ecological” Hand Dryers On Vulnerable Subgroups In Publicly Accessible Toilets'. In: 2nd International Conference on Hyperacusis (ICH2). Birkbeck College, University of London.
Drever, John L.. 2015. 'Topophonophobia – the space and place of acute hearing'. In: Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound. Harvard University, United States.
Drever, John L.. 2014. 'Ochlophonia Hong Kong SAR: audition, speech and feedback from within the crowded soundscape.'. In: Sound, Noise and the Everyday: Soundscapes in China. Aarhus University, Denmark.
Drever, John L.. 2014. 'Sound Art Curator as de facto Acoustician'. In: Sound Art Curating Conference: Histories, Theories and Practices of Sound Art. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2014. 'Sensitive Hearers and Particular Hearing Requirements Within the Urban Soundscape'. In: Urban Soundscapes and Critical Citizenship: an interdisciplinary conference. University of Limerick.
Drever, John L.. 2013. 'Sanitary Soundscapes: the noise effects from ultra-rapid energy-efficient hand dryers on vulnerable subgroups – a listening approach'. In: Symposium on Acoustic Ecology. The School of Music and Fine Art, University of Kent, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2013. 'Sounding Space & Public Space'. In: Sounding Space Symposium - BE OPEN. Chelsea College of Art & Design, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2013. 'Sanitary Soundscapes: the noise effects of high-speed hand dryers'. In: Sound Diaries Symposium 2013. SARU, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2013. 'Sanitary Soundscapes: the noise effects from ultra-rapid “ecological” hand dryers on vulnerable subgroups in publicly accessible toilets'. In: AIA-DAGA 2013, the joint Conference on Acoustics, European Acoustics Association Euroregio, 39th annual congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik and the 40th annual congress of the Associazione Italiana di Acustica. Marano, Italy.
Drever, John L.. 2013. 'Silent Soundwalking: an urban pedestrian soundscape methodology'. In: AIA-DAGA 2013, the joint Conference on Acoustics, European Acoustics Association Euroregio, 39th annual congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik and the 40th annual congress of the Associazione Italiana di Acustica. Merano, Italy.
Drever, John L.. 2011. 'Session 9 reflections: Listening to and sounding soundscapes'. In: Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice. Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2011. 'Soundwalking in the City: a socio-spatio-temporal sound practice'. In: 5th International Symposium on Temporal Design. Sheffield, United Kingdom 21-22 July 2011.
Drever, John L.. 2011. 'Ochlophonia Hong Kong SAR: audition, speech and feedback from within the crowded soundscape'. In: Phonography Colloquium. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2011. 'Sanitary Ambiance: a study of current auditory ambiances of public toilets in England'. In: Urban Design and Urban Society - The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 3rd International Ambiance Network Conference 2011. The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
Drever, John L. and Thatcher, Tony. 2010. '-scape [Goodwins] - making horizontal'. In: Royal Geographical Society, Institute of British Geographers,Annual InternationalConference. Pavilion Gallery, Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2010. 'Round table discussion'. In: Lost Sound by John Smith. Royal College of Art, Curating Contemporary Art Ma Programme, Cafe Oto, London, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2010. 'What would you like your city to sound like?: ideological and ethical musings on urban soundscape design in 2010'. In: Ideologies and Ethics in the Uses and Abuses of Sound. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
Drever, John L.. 2009. 'Plenary Speaker'. In: Sound, soundscapes and sonic environments. The Open University, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2009. 'Round table discussion'. In: Cornelius Cardew: Play for Today: A Symposium. The Drawing Room and the ICA, London, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2009. 'Round table discussion'. In: Sonification. Theatre Noise, Central School of Speech and Drama, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2009. 'Soundwalking as compositional practice?'. In: ‘Sensewalking: sensory walking methods for social scientists’ - Royal Geographical Society with the IBG Annual Conference. University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2009. 'The vagaries of sound fx: supposed sounding and listening through the history of recorded sound'. In: Theatre Noise. Central School of Speech and Drama, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2008. 'Ochlophonics Hong Kong: everyday sound practices within the crowd'. In: Music, Sound, and the Music, Sound, and the Re-configuration of Public and Private Space. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2008. 'Topophonophilia and Topophonophobia'. In: Cartografías de la Escucha. Sonido y lugar, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Drever, John L.. 2008. 'The sound of cattle grids'. In: So Far… arts, spatialisation and memory. Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2007. 'Soundscape sensibilities as expressed and betrayed in composition'. In: Beyond Text?: Synaesthetic and Sensory Practices in Anthropology - 10th Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival Of Ethnographic Film. University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2007. 'Soundscapes and acoustic ecology - origins and prospects'. In: Sounder Spaces. Julian Huxley Lecture Theatre, London Zoo, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2007. 'Soundwalking: methods of listening in situ to the city'. In: SeneScapes. University of Salford, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2007. 'Topophonophilia: the rapport between place, space, sentiment and sound’'. In: School of Creative Media. City University of Hong Kong, China.
Drever, John L.. 2006. 'Architect-Sonics: Heritage of Sound, Music and Architecture'. In: 4x4 Making Places Leeds: Building Sounds (Architecture and Music). Leeds College of Music, Architecture Week, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2006. 'Field Work: From Arm-chair to Open-air Research in Sonic Arts'. In: Doctoral Research Conference, Digital Music Research Network. United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2005. 'Topophonics & Nostophonics: the role of sound in the golden era of British documentary film'. In: Expo 966. University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2005. 'Topophonophilia: a study on the relationship between the sounds of Dartmoor and the people who live there'. In: The International Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers). London, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.; Melo, Andres and Wiggins, Geraint. 2005. 'Electroacoustic performance interfaces that learn from their users'. In: International Computer Music Conference. Barcelona, Spain.
Drever, John L.. 2005. 'Topophonique, Ochlophonique, Nostophonique et Pataphonique: trois études de cas'. In: Technologie imaginaire; approche pataphysique de la musique. Sorbonne, France.
Drever, John L.. 2004. 'Audio-Vision: Cause and Effect?'. In: The State of Affairs II: Listening to Vision - Looking at Sound. Sonic Arts Department, Middlesex University, Conway Hall, London, United Kingdom.
Drever, John L.. 2004. 'Topophonophilia: the relationship between sound, sentiment and place'. In: Zeppelin2004: Ecologia Acústica. Etica y Estética en la idea de Paisaje Sonoro. Festival of sound art, Caos->Sonoscop, CaixaFòrum, Barcelona, Spain.
Drever, John L.. 2001. 'The Sublime in Acousmatic Music: Listening to the Unpresentable'. In: Music Without Walls? Music Without Instruments?. De Montfort, United Kingdom 21-23 June.
Drever, John. 'Sanitary Soundscapes: The Noise Effects From Ultra-Rapid “Ecological” Hand Dryers on Vulnerable Subgroups'. In: HAVENS First Virtual Symposium – Group of researchers interested in the soundscapes of healthcare. TU Delft, Netherlands 15th July 2020.
Drever, John L.. 'Are you listening?'. In: Sound Summit 3. Institute for Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, United Kingdom 16 June 2020.
Digital
Drever, John L.. 2009. Q&A with an acoustic ecologist, BBC World Service.
Edited Journal
Bulley, James; Sahin, Ozden; Drever, John L. and Aceti, Lanfranco, eds. 2018. Special Issue on Sound Curating, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 22(3). 1071-4391
Povall, R; Drever, John L.; Hartley, J; Wallen, J and Zakis, R, eds. 2015. Special issue: ‘Arts And Ecology: Emerging Uses For Digital Technologies’, Digital Creativity, 26(1). 1462-6268
Drever, John L., ed. 2007. Noise: Debates, Strategies and Methodologies, Earshot 5, .
Drever, John L., ed. 2001. Sound Practice, Proceedings, .
Show/Exhibition
Drever, John L.; Ishikawa, Ryo and Okada, Shuji. 2012. Shizengaku. In: "SHIZENGAKU", Menier Gallery, United Kingdom, March 2012.
Thesis
Drever, John L.. 2001. Phonographies: Practical and Theoretical Explorations into Composing with Disembodied Sound. Doctoral thesis, University of Plymouth