Ralph Hoyte

Biography

A Bristol-based context-aware media producer, declamatory poet, writer and artist. He is founder of Satsymph, specialists in mobile immersive media experiences incorporating highly innovative coding and spatialised audio, creating dramatized heritage-based audio-plays as well as contemporary music and contemporary poetry soundscapes. Ralph also writes scripts for the Heritage Industry for clients such as English Heritage, e.g. audio and ‘Peppers Ghosts’ scripts for the refurbishment of Dover Castle Great Tower. As a poet, Ralph specializes in large-scale declamatory public poems or epics in which a sense of place is integral to his work. This sense of place and interest in maps and mapping technologies are what ties in his work to immersive media scenarios.