Elmer Birkbeck's Instantanés gave us a soundscape, with the noises of the city of Marseille relayed to the listener in remixed form, pumped from speakers constructed with woodchip. However, this was not a cheap aural happening, but an astonishingly complex, layered and human(e) result, even though, and perhaps more so because, with the physical proximity of the physical objects that produced the work removed. From my notebook, I have the words sonorous, mysterious and nostalgic written next to each other. Whilst you sit on the wooden bench enjoying yourself, one should look at where the sound comes from. The speakers pulse along gently with the disjointed shouts and the hiss of rain recorded at some time in a large port on the south coast of France.

Joe Duffy's multi-screen installion Žižkov Pan tackles the world of surveillance, gazing down on Prague from the 700 foot-high Žižkov TV Tower. Men staring off a stone bridge, dimly-lit apartments at night-time are just some of the scenes that greet the viewer. Blurred lights on a darkened background. Made me feel lonely, but in a sweet, sad way.

Max Livesey's two works are themed around pilgrimage, both involving interactive globes. Pilgrim's Digress appeals to me the most, a projection of Livesey with rucksack on the centre of the globe. As one moves the globe, the avatar of Livesey runs to keep up with the movement and maintain his position at the centre of the globe. Weird thing was that, as the countries on the globe are quite faint and the globe is grey, I was actually wondering why he was on Jupiter. Nonetheless, Progress and it's companion piece, Obscure View, are serious and weighty attempts at grappling with the pursuit of equilibrium. And the kids will love playing with them as well.

I can't tell you too much about Yukari Yoshikawa's Colour and Colours, as I think my ham-fisted physical descriptions couldn't give an even barely adequate reason to see why I was so awestruck by this extraordinarily beautiful and numinously heartening work. All I can say is that projectors and optical fibres are involved. Please see it.

The very charming Richard Charnock's An Exploration of Consciousness has more than a hint of the Heath Robinsons to it. A rabbit hutch. A rabbit. An enormous wooden rabbit run. Microphones. Picking up the rabbit sounds and viewer sounds. Delicately positioned speakers. Did I mention that there were microphones in the bar downstairs relaying sound to the speakers upstairs? The programme states 'The duality involved in creating and shaping the sounds is exposed, prompting a gentle conflict between viewer and rabbit and ultimately questioning the role of participation'

Nope, me neither. You have to see it though, all the same.

Andrea Zapp has done something extremely clever with the increasingly-criticised programme Google Earth. She's taken GE images and created tapestries of them, thereby dislocating even further the somewhat unreal quality of GE images. If one zooms in too far (in other words far enough to be really interesting) on Google Earth images, they blur into pixellated mush. Of course, in Zapp's Google Gaze, the pixels are replaced by individual stitches. Zapp sees the images as 'rendered domestic and decorative, the virtual media space (is) framed as the new 'fabric of society'', with 'it's underlying assertion of authenticity now appearing fictional and illusory.' I agree in theory, but the weird thing is that Zapp's fabric recreations, with their embossed additions, actually seemed more authentic than the GE images I can pull out of the internet.

Unfortunately time (a lack of it) prevented me from more than a brief glimpse of Rob Strongitharm's diaphanous photographic meditation on the abandoned home of a Latvian exile, but what I did see warranted serious attention. Joel Porter's Ubiquitous Interactivity also fell victim to the unexpectedly early closing, but his interactive Radio Frequency Identification card installation looked like fun, with possibly deeper meanings to be unpackaged from it.

You can listen to more of Eimer Birbeck's soundscapes in our artists section -here