Home Tapes

I had the pleasure of being involved in Home Tapes, alongside the incredible Peter Broderick and Douglas Dare, created for the Soundworlds podcast. Soundworlds can best be described as sonic theatre, and is the brainchild of the incredibly talented director, dramaturg and all-round wonderful human, Patrick Eakin Young. I think he’s created something really special and I thoroughly recommend all the pieces in the season.

My piece, Two Different Skies, is a series of vignettes inspired by my life in Perth and Liverpool, two cities which are simultaneously my home and not my home, albeit for different reasons. This was my first time working with my own text and my own voice in my music, which was simultaneously intimidating and invigorating, and something I hope to continue to experiment with.

UK Tour with Julia Kent

I’m extremely excited to say that I’ll be joining the incredible Julia Kent on a UK tour in November!

The dates are:

Tue 12 November, CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge Junction [tickets]
Wed 13 November, EXETER, Exeter Phoenix [tickets]
Thur 14 November, BRISTOL, St George’s Bristol [tickets]
Fri 15 November, LONDON, Mirth, Marvel & Maud [tickets]
Sat 16 November, BRADFORD, Fuse Arts Space [tickets]
Sun 17 November, SALFORD, The Eagle [tickets]

It’s a real honour to be supporting an artist of Julia’s calibre - reading interviews with her about how she self-produced her records was actually a big influence on my decision to make Lines of Sight in that way.

I’m going to be trying out some new material written specifically for my solo set - I can’t wait!

Video for "From Inside, Looking Out"

Very very excited to share this video for “From Inside, Looking Out”, the opening track of Lines of Sight. It was created by the incredible Thomas Gill, who I first had the pleasure of working with last year when Immix collaborated with him and the equally incredible Kelly Lee Owens. I always imagined this track as having a fast-paced birds-eye perspective, and Tom really took that idea and ran with it. The images themselves are taken from NASA’s online archives, and I’m absolutely in love with it.

Infinite Silence

I had the pleasure of composing some music for this stunning short film by director Max Luz.

Infinite Silence features Kojey Radical, and is a cinematic poem that seeks to encourage us to talk about mental health as openly and freely as we would anything in the physical realm.

Immix Ensemble 2017-2018 Series

I'm very excited say that Immix's next series begins on June 8th at the Bluecoat, featuring new music written by the incredible Luke Abbott, and myself. 

We are incredibly fortunate to have been supported once again by the Arts Council England, and this concert will be the first in a series of five new commissions that we'll be performing across Liverpool (and beyond!) over the next 12 months. 

Tickets for this first show are here, and you can stay up to date with everything Immix-related here and here and here.

The Attempt

Recently, I wrote some music for Adam Scovell's short film, The Attempt. The film deals with the poet Edward Thomas, and is based on his account of an aborted suicide attempt in 1911 whilst walking in the woods. The bittersweet irony of this attempt is that Thomas was shot and killed at the battle of Arras some six years later. I think that Adam has done a fantastic job of capturing a number of themes - isolation, depression, nature, and the parallels between Thomas' foreshadowing of his own death and a world on the brink of war to name a few - and it was a genuine pleasure to have worked with him on it.

Maia

Happy New Year! Here's a demo of a new piece, written for my niece, Maia, who was born last year.

For my niece, Maia, born 15/5/15

Enjoy!