Podcast: Eavesdropping Festival preview

Hear me chat to Eavesdropping curator Juliet Fraser about my chance encounter with a violin at school, finding my own soundworld, exploring layers of history, musical genres and moths.

PODCAST (13mins): on.soundcloud.com/L8VcM

I will be performing works from my latest album Memory Islands at Cafe Oto Dalston, on Friday 22 March as part of the excellent Eavesdropping Festival.

GIG: tickets can be purchased at www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024-2/
Here's a tiny preview of what i'll be performing. There will be violin, hardanger fiddle, drones, glitches, improv, field recordings and the voice of my grandad.

PREVIEW (INSTAGRAM): tinyurl.com/2m5ee7wr

New Release on Accidental Records

A new work of mine for violin and electronics is released today on Accidental Records. The compilation called Antechamber Music features music by a fantastic selection of experimental artists and is available on limited edition cassette (with glittery tape!), download, and streaming.

The piece is an shortened version of an unreleased track Will I Dream? which gets its title from a quote from Peter Hyam’s sequel to the Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The moment the onboard computer HAL confronts his digital ‘mortality’ – all memories erased. It has an unsettling sound world with lots of space between the notes to create a sense of void. Most of the sounds you hear have originated from the violin, manipulated through FX pedals (including the TC Helicon VoiceLive) and computer processed effects.

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Singing with Nightingales

Here's last night's broadcast for #earthday #singingwithnightingales. It's a beautiful listen from start to finish but this link drops you in straight at my little piece for hardanger fiddle called Unnamed/Unseen.

Produced by the Nest Collective and hosted by folk singer Sam Lee this free audio broadcast, live on YouTube, takes you on a journey into the woods of Sussex to hear the unforgettable song of the nightingale.