Patrick McGinley (aka murmer) is an American-born sound, performance, and radio artist who has been based in Europe since 1996. Since then, he has been building a collection of found sounds and found objects that has become the basis of all his work. In 2002, he founded Framework, an organization that produces a weekly field-recording themed radio show that is broadcast all over the world and streamed on Framework's website. In 2005, he first visited Estonia, and relocated there permanently in 2009. McGinley also gives presentations, workshops, and performances based on the exploration of site-specific sound and sound as a definition of space. In live performance, his interest in field recording has developed into an attempt to integrate and resonate found sounds, found objects, specific spaces, and moments in time, with the intention of creating a direct and visceral link with an audience and location.

Patrick’s solo work is about small discoveries and concentrated attention; it focuses on the framing of the sounds around us which normally pass through our ears unnoticed, but which out of context become unrecognizable, alien and extraordinary. In an exploration of perception via attentive listening, he works equally with spaces, objects, resonances, and people in composition, performance, collective action and experience.