Current
Work in progress:
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- Patchland, for ROLI Seaboard navigation of a 3D environment. Under development using Pure Data and Unity.
- Twigstrument, an electro-acoustic bowed twig instrument
- Weird Little Homemade Album (working title), an album of pieces for electronics and improvised performance.
Ongoing
- Duo with Edward Henderson – co-composed pieces for piano and electronics with my colleague from Bastard Assignments
- Notebook – publishing my composition notebooks online
- Composition vlog – a fortnightly video blog tracking my work in progress (2017- [2020 – currently on hold while I finish my thesis] )
Selected completed projects
- PIGSPIGSPIGS, 75-minute musiktheater work co-composed by Bastard Assignments, now touring.
- HOUSE, 8-hour installation for Musik Installationen Nürnberg, co-composed by Bastard Assignments
- HAYDN SPACE OPERA, a virtual reality environment created in Mozilla Hubs.
- WALKS, a series of collaborative video works created with Katie Hanning and Jon England (Kaths Kaff). WALKS 1-4 were released in June 2021, with WALKS 5-12 being commissioned by Electric Medway and released on 21 August 2021. .
- A Memory of Wind, for viola – how might a petrified forest under the sea remember the wind?
- Quiet Songs, for detuned viola, video and voice, a commission for the 2019 Aldeburgh Festival.
Completed research projects
These two research projects were completed during my Master’s degree and both focus on developing the role of visual art within my composition practice.
- At the Borders of Music, Art and Text: Exploring an interdisciplinary approach to composition, composition research project (2013-14) focusing on music for voices including Drowning Songs, Crossing Dartmoor and the parksong series of experimental pieces/artworks.
- A Sketchbook of Mushrooms, composition research project based on Cy Twombly’s Natural History: Part I: Mushrooms exploring musical equivalents for visual arts techniques and the use of collage as a compositional tool. (2012-13)
