—  sound placemaker  —

Sound impacts our experience of the world - and of place - as much as the structures and spaces, the colours, tastes, scents and texts, and the materials we touch. How can you move people physically or emotionally (or even both) through sound and music? Which sounds sing in the air, and which fail? What’s the history of a place, and its future, and how can this be reflected in music? And how can music & sound challenge, surprise and delight people, sometimes all at once?

In the words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ‘Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music’. Over the past 10 years I have worked on projects with a range of organisations and institutions, composing, directing choirs, staging productions & sound shows, recording in studios and creating live immersive sound experiences, all responding to and creating a sense of place. I work across many genres including indie, EDM, electro dub, film, world, choral, ambient, classical piano and more.

—  The Dark Heals —
artist in residence at Europe’s largest biomedical campus, working on a sound & digital media project to compose a soundscape reflecting what COVID-19 has been like for the c.25,000 people working and living on site, drawn on submissions from people related to the campus. The project culminates in an event on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus on Tuesday 12th July in full ambisonic (3d) sound. Please see www.thedarkheals.com for more information. 2021-22

—  Refugee Week 2022 —
a collaborative commission with Michael Rosen - the British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist who has written 140 books & served as Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009. The commission was to set four of his poems to music for adults & children to perform at a multi-arts / multi-generational event in Cambridge on June 26th, marking the delayed (due to covid) Holocaust Memorial Day. 2022

—  In The Dark, London / Cambridge / Suffolk —
a ground-breaking, experimental, totally in the dark, highly-acclaimed sound experience, performed live in stunning & historic venues, involving between 60-120 performers surrounding & within audiences ranging in size from 50-300 people, all experiencing total immersion with sleep masks; described by many as the best musical experience of their lives and returning soon
2017-2022 find out more here

—  We Are Sound —
created 10 large scale productions in London & Cambridge leading venues, arranging over 200 songs for 4-24 part choirs, exploring diverse artists including The National, The Divine Comedy, Goldfrapp, Beatenberg, Katzenjammer, Aviici, Gotan Project, Efterklang, Little Axe, Imogen Heap, Simian Mobile Disco, Sigur Ros, Elbow, The Wilderness of Manitoba, Darlingside, the Guillemots and more
2010-2021

—  Major institutional anniversary, Cambridge University —
appointed as composer, writer & artistic director for a 30 minute ‘light & sound extravaganza’ to celebrate a significant birthday at one of the Cambridge colleges within the grounds of its main court, weaving together live performances, video interviews, original compositions and narration
2019

—  The Simon Sainsbury Building, Judge Business School  —
commission of a global ‘corridor of sound’ along an avenue of trees leading to the entrance of the business school, marking the opening of the new building; attended by HRH Prince Andrew; involved composition and recording of a 15-minute electronic global track to reflect the student body, plus artistic direction (and staging) with live improvising musicians
2018

—  Film Soundtrack, Magpie —
composer for the single (The Fall) for Magpie, the movie - a haunting piano / voice track to close the film; also composer & arranger of the film soundtrack, working closely with director Paul Cook
2018

—  The Choirs, Storey’s Way Centre  —
collaboration with visual artist Melanie Manchot for the opening of the new University of Cambridge Eddington community space, involving the setting of text to choral music, performed live with rap artist Xidus and small choir, along side ‘choirs’ of clowns, actors and pagans…
2018

—  Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge  —
curation of a light touch ‘late night’ evening event with a winter theme to entertain a museum audience in situ and entice them to explore the physical space
2017

—  The Atrium, Judge Business School —
collaboration with visual artist Caroline Wright to mark the opening of her exhibition in response to the development of the new Simon Sainsbury centre alongside its adjacent, existing, atrium at the Judge Business School; involved composition of a polyphonic 5 part track setting poetry to voice, reflecting and staged within the astonishing interior of the ‘old’ building
2017

—  Parker’s Piece  —
composition of site-specific text / music (plus arrangement, recording and live performance) as part of Le Tour de France in Cambridge, in response to the history of Parker’s Piece (think cricket, and football!)
2014