I am Franco Ross Adams, also known as Trawl Hz, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves fluidly between photography, sound, and spatial installation. I explore transformation of place, objects, and perception through visual and sonic experimentation, shifting between the pulse of performance and the stillness of objects to reveal spaces where form drifts toward abstraction.…

Franco Ross Adams

I am Franco Ross Adams, also known as Trawl Hz, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves fluidly between photography, sound, and spatial installation. I explore transformation of place, objects, and perception through visual and sonic experimentation, shifting between the pulse of performance and the stillness of objects to reveal spaces where form drifts toward abstraction.…

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I am Franco Ross Adams, also known as Trawl Hz, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves fluidly between photography, sound, and spatial installation. I explore transformation of place, objects, and perception through visual and sonic experimentation, shifting between the pulse of performance and the stillness of objects to reveal spaces where form drifts toward abstraction.

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Skills

Experience Level

Audio
Expert
Photo
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Freelance Photographer at Self-employed (Freelance Photographer)
January 1, 2016 - Present
I create images that span performance and studies of objects and spaces. Across this practice, I use contrast to shape both the subject and the space around it, drawing on light and shade as a structuring force rather than a purely descriptive one. I’m drawn to the way illumination can carve out movement, isolate gestures, and reveal the underlying architecture of a moment on stage, just as it can reframe engineered components or familiar objects. In both contexts, shifts in light and context alter perception, allowing what is known to be seen with renewed attention and precision. https://www.francoadams.com/
Music and Sound Artist (Freelance) at Self-employed (Music and Sound Artist)
January 1, 1990 - Present
My work involves the capturing of field recordings within environments that hold everyday or exceptional sonic qualities. Forging raw with processed recordings, I produce real and imagined sound universes, aural docu-poems, and dense electronic compositions. Binaural sound and multi-speaker arrays are utilised as conduits for these layered sonic narratives. My work has been recognised by The Danish Arts Council, Arts Council England, British Council, PRS Foundation for New Music, Koda Kultur, Nordisk Kulturfond, and the Royal Norwegian Embassy.

Education

MA Sound Design at National Film and Television School (UK)
October 1, 2004 - July 28, 2006

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Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Education
    paper Franco Adams Photography

    This is a link to my various jobs within photography. I create images that span performance and studies of objects and spaces. Across this practice, I use contrast to shape both the subject and the space around it, drawing on light and shade as a structuring force rather than a purely descriptive one.

    https://www.twine.net/signin

    paper Trawl Hz - Burning Yard

    This release came about from a sound field recording project in Kolkata. I spent an extended duration walking the streets and environs of the city capturing field recordings, which were the source material for the EP Burning Yard. Everything in this sound and music production was created out of the raw field recordings.

    https://www.twine.net/signin

    paper Nord Rute

    Nord Rute is the first installment in a four-part cycle of unconventional ambisonic narratives. Inspired by the literary works, drawings, and sonic imagination of renowned Sámi multi-artist Nils Aslak Valkeapää, the series draws from his cycle of poems that explore Indigenous cultures, their traditions, and their spiritual and practical relationships with the natural world.

    ​Nord Rute is a sonic interpretation of Valkeapää’s Poem No. 272, created by myself under my Trawl Hz moniker, Ed Handley - one half of UK electronic music pioneers Plaid (Warp Records), Sámi poets Synnøve Persen and Ánde Somby, with joiking and drumming contributions by Ingor Antte Ailu Gaup. Poem No. 272 centres on a reindeer herd in motion and places Sámi life, language, and the acoustic textures of the Arctic tundra at its core.

    Woven into the work is a contemporary account of the annual Sámi reindeer migration - a 350-kilometre journey across the Arctic tundra to the spring grazing grounds of northern Norway. Adams travelled alongside a group of herders, capturing ambisonic field recordings that form the foundation of this immersive sonic landscape.

    The result is a work that bridges poetry, tradition, and sound: a moving portrait of a people, a migration, and a world shaped by nature’s rhythm. Nord Rute was performed in London and Norway.

    https://www.twine.net/signin