Patrick Farmer
 











+447769732635
dr.patrickfarmer@protonmail.com





Dr. Patrick Farmer (b 1983 / Ma, PhD, Lic.) is a fully insured homeopath and artist with over twenty years experience in a number of different fields. His background includes homeopathy, flower essences, energetic philosophy, herbalism, writing, sonic art, field recording, and Hindustani classical percussion. He holds a licentiate degree in homeopathy from The Southern College of Homeopathy in London, and an Ma/PhD in sonic art and philosophy from Oxford Brookes. 
Having previously ran a homeopathy clinic in the book town of Hay on Wye, Patrick now offers consultations online and face to face in Malvern (as a member of the Society of Homeopaths), teaches classes in fine art critical theory as a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, and is writing a book on archetypal medicine, correspondences, Dionysos, and the colour pink. 
Farmer is the recent recipient of a grant from the Homeopathy Action Trust, and since 2021 he has run the On Vibration virtual lecture series, and the Row of Trees online journal. He also curates the audiograft festival of experimental music and sonic art in Oxford, has published several books and essays, and as a musician, performed around the world.  
With abundant Mercurial energy in his natal chart, Patrick’s homeopathic consultations, written work, and interests span many fields of interest and intention. These include vibrational medicine, quantum field theory, astrology, chinese medicine, water science, philosophy, archetypal psychology, art, botany, and poetry.
Patrick loosely practises from what he calls an amateur perspective, always trying to cultivate a sense of joy and love for what he does, and though his life is currently steeped in medical study and academic research, his true qualifications come from lived experiences, with lasting insights emerging from family life and relationships, domesticity, travel, grief, dreams, burnout, creative failure, and imaginative chaos. 
As a homeopath, Patrick enters into each consultation with no agenda other than paying attention to the energy in the room and the person in front of him. The aim is a return to health, gently, and in the right time. 


Homeopathy was home before I knew. 

During the pandemic I moved to Sheffield, and befriended a gentle Maine Coon, called Oscar. I’d later find out that he was quite famous, with many web pages dedicated to him. It took some time, but eventually he jumped on my lap, and as a friend of a friend said, started ‘making biscuits’, mimicking the process of trying to glean milk from the mother. After this, he curled up, and fell asleep. He’s a big cat, and I had no wish to disturb. Within reach was a copy of Richard Gerber’s book,  ‘Vibrational Medicine’, I thumbed through, and was immediately drawn to the chapter on Homeopathy.  
As I read I realised, I’ve been here before - I have a background, not only in music, but in sonic art and field recording. I was a touring drummer and electronics performer for many years before this, I also ran a record label, curated numerous music festivals and lecture series, I’ve published several books and essays, written many music compositions, exhibited my work all over the world, and was also a care worker for many years.  
There will always be a place in my heart for Oscar, dear daemon that he is, because during his slumber, which lasted four hours, I became, well, what I can only describe as more and more awake, I realised then and there what it was I truly wanted to do with my life, and haven’t looked back. Fifteen years previous, I had hit my head whilst installing a sound installation about melting ice, resulting in a number of auditory and balance related disturbances, one of which was vertigo. I saw many an otologist and audiologist, time after time being told that there was nothing to be done. This destabilisation ushered me out of music and into field recording and education, I got my PHD and began teaching at Oxford Brookes as a senior lecturer and started to manage the Sonic Arts Research Unit, under the auspices of which I still curate the arts journal, A Row of Trees.

After Sheffield I found myself in Malvern, and upon seeing homeopath Kelda White, after just four months, my vertigo was gone, and has not returned. In an enchanted stroke of synchronicity, Kelda had started running a homeopathy college just outside Malvern, twinned with the Southern College of Homeopathy, she said I could come for a taster session, and within five minutes of the first lecture, about arnica and decay, I realised just what a boundless ecology homeopathy truly is. My view of, not just the world, but the cosmos, continues to evolve, to metamorphose, taking many shapes, revealing many lives, utmost among them, my understanding of health, body, and soul. As part of a holistic practise, homeopathy continues to teach, humble, and enthral.

Whilst much of my public facing art practise is ‘behind’ me, I consider the experiences vital in leading me to my Homeopathic practise. Over the years I have taught sonic poetics, field recording, poetry, fine art, philosophy, music, and sonic art, across Foundation, Ba, Ma, and Phd. I have given talks at venues and events such as Nottingham University, the Polish Cultural Institute in London, Tuned City in Brussels, the Canadian Embassy in Tallinn, The Walking Festival of Sound in Sweden, South London Gallery, the first Aural Diversity conference in Leicester, and the annual British Tinnitus Association Conference in Sheffield. I have also curated and organised the audiograft festival in Oxford for over ten years; the Sound I’m Particular talk series; The On Vibration virtual lecture series; the Sonic Art Visiting Practitioner Series. 

 I have also had residencies, exhibitions and shows at COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow; The Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London; Modern Art Oxford; Cafe Oto in London; International Notation Colloquium in Mexico City; Sirius Arts centre in Cobh; The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; Machine Project in Los Angeles; Goodbye Blue Monday in New York; Ftarri Festival in Tokyo; Aarhus’s Art writing Festival; Now Now Festival in Sydney, Australia; and a prolonged residency as part of a collaboration between Sound and Music and Forestry Commission England. 


Oscar in and about Sheffield 




C.V. 

Patrick Farmer
b / 1983

dr.patrickfarmer@protonmail.com 
+44 7769 732 635
https://www.patrickfarmer.org 


Education
2021–2025
Lic. Homeopathy - Southern College of Homeopathy
2012–2016
PhD Sonic Poetics - School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University                              
2010–2011
MA Social Sculpture and Sonic Art: Distinction - School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University                      
2006–2009
BA Sonic Art: First Class - School of Music, Middlesex University

 Select Roles
2021
Homeopath, in person and online
2019
Senior Lecturer in Music, Fine Art, and Sonic Art, Foundation/BA/MA/PhD, School of the Arts, Oxford Brookes University
2018
Associate Researcher, School of the Arts, Oxford Brookes University
2010
Hourly paid lecturer, School of Music, Middlesex University
2006
Care worker, Compass Care, Newtown, Powys 

 Memberships
2025
Society of Homeopaths
2021
Homeopathy Action Trust
2021
Centre for Homeopathic Education


Funding and Awards
2025
Homeopathy Action Trust Grant
2020
Chase, Aural Diversity Network lectures
2019
AHRC, Tinnitus, Auditory Knowledge and the Arts, with Dr. Marie Thompson
2016
Canterbury Christ Church University, research collaboration grant with Compost and Height
2016
Sound and Music documentation grant, Meantime Projectspace, Cheltenham
2015
Forestry Commission England commission
2010
AHRC, MA Studentship Award

 Roles and Responsibilities, Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU)
Manager - SARU, Oxford Brookes University 
Founder - A Row of Trees, online School of the Arts journal 
Lead - SARU Virtual seminar series, 2021
Lead - SARU virtual reading group, 2021
Co-Lead - SARU visiting practitioner series, 2021
Founder - Artist in Residence scheme, Oxford Brookes University
Curator - audiograft festival of experimental music and sonic art
Curator - SARU bandcamp
Founder  - Sound I’m Particular Lecture and Performance Series 2015-16 /2018-19
Founder - Significant Landscapes Festival

 Select Publications

Books
Forthcoming– Upturned Solar Bark
2024– Small as my Jupiter Finger
2019– Azimuth, Ecology of Ear
2018– Close Eclogues on Tiptoe
2016– Listening and it’s not
2015– Yew Grotesque

Book Chapters
2023– ‘Throwing Stones at Nothing’, Sound Walking. UK: Routledge.
2022– ‘〰️’, Aural Diversity. UK. Routledge.
2018– ‘Bittern Space, a siskin’, Writing the Field Recording. UK: Edinburgh University Press.
2012– ‘Michael Pisaro, Only (2005-6), Ten Encounters, a Personal Text Score History’, Word Events, Perspectives on Verbal Notation. New York: Bloomsbury.

Articles / Essays / Poems
2023– ‘The Mention of Flies’, Special edition of the Senses and Society Journal, The Aesthetics of Tinnitus, (eds) Farmer, P, Thompson, M
2022– ‘On Obscure Motion’, Riffs journal
2022– ‘Humuskind’, MAP online journal
2021– ‘A Tinnital Imagination’, Socrates on the Beach journal
2021– ‘A Tinnital Imagination’, Translated into Swedish for Nutida Magazine
2021– ‘Soft Doors’, Zeno Press
2020– Oscilla, Disonare Magazine

 Select Public Engagement
2021–2025 On Vibration virtual lecture series
Jul 2021– Tinnitus, Auditory Knowledge and the Arts, co-host of a series of three virtual workshops
Apr 2021– Walking Festival of Sound, virtual lecture
Oct 2020– British Tinnitus Association Conference, virtual panel
Sept 2020– BBC Radio 3, Late Junction, Subterranean Sounds
Feb/Mar 2020– Goldsmiths University/Foundling Museum, South London Gallery, Aural Diversity network lectures, UK
Dec 2019– Leicester University, Aural Diversity Conference, Tinnitus, Auditory Knowledge and the Arts lecture, UK
Jan 2015– Nottingham Trent University ‘Sentences’ lecture, UK
Dec 2014– Q02 Winter School, ‘Water yam’ workshop and lecture, Q02, Brussels, Belgium
June 2013– Q02, Tuned City Festival, artist mentor, Brussels, Belgium
Nov 2012– Polish Cultural Institute, ‘’Natural’ workshop and performative lecture, Hackney, UK
Aug 2012– BBC Radio 4, Proms 47 Cage Centenary Celebration
Jan 2012– Canadian Embassy, ‘Field’ lecture, Tallinn, Estonia

Select Performances and Artist Residences
Jul 2018–   Compositions and aggregates residency, Sirius Arts Centre, Cork  
Sept 2016– Sound/Word residency, Syros, Greece  
Mar/Jun 2016– Park Nights, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Oct 2015– Border, Art-Writing Festival, Aarhus, Denmark
Sept 2015– Ftarri Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Aug 2014– NOWNOW Festival, Non-Objective, Sydney, Australia
Jan 2013– Embedded Commission, Sound and Music and Forestry Commission England, Grizedale, Lake District
Aug 2012– Prom 47, John Cage Centenary.  Royal Albert Hall, London

 Select Exhibitions
Jan 2022–Photosynthesis sound installation, Opening of University of Bonn’s Artificial Intelligence and Applied Ethics dept, Bonn, Germany
Nov 2021–Light Sounds Air, COP 26, Glasgow, UK
Oct 2021–The Hidden Noise, Tinnitus and Art (curator). Oxford, UK
Aug 2015–We Find the Body Difficult to Speak. Grizedale, UK
Mar 2012–New Works. The Old Fire Station. Oxford, UK
Feb 2010–Fantasy is a Place Where it Rains. Oriel Davies. Newtown, Wales
Jun 2008–Mr Palomar. Bloc Space. Sheffield, UK

Select Sound and Music Compositions
Aug 2017–Camera Silenta, Two eggs in a cup to stand in for reality. Published by BORE. First performed at Portland Extradition Series, USA.
Nov 2017–The origin of movement, or why things have movement. Based on ‘passages’ by Ann Quin. First performed by Ordinary Affects, Boston, USA.
Sept 2015–Border. First performed by Rhodri Davies, Seiji Murayama, Tanaka Yoshiko, Ko Ishikawa. Ftarri Festival, Tokyo, Japan.
Aug 2015–We Find the Body Difficult to Speak (co-written with Sarah Hughes). Published by Experimental Music Yearbook. First performed by Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes, Grizedale, UK.

Select Discography
Jan 2022–Correspondence, with Sarah Hughes, Editions Verde 
Jun 2017–Pell-Mell the Prolix, with David Lacey. Caduc
Sept 2016–Performance, with Dominic Lash, realising Manfred Werder’s ‘2 ausführende seiten 419-424 (1999-)’. Rhizome
Jan 2015–Continuum Unbound (3CD boxset), with Michael Pisaro, Greg Stuart, Joe Panzner, and Toshiya Tsunoda. Gravity Wave