Live Show May 1st 2025 Modern Art Oxford
Another UK outing for my new piece Nothing Makes Sense. This time at Modern Art Oxford on May 1st 2025. Tickets are free but you must book here.
Nothing Makes Sense was composed in February 2025 for a concert at the legendary Inner Spaces Primavera Festival in Milan. The backbone of the piece is a pre-recorded improvisation, utilising the sounds of a broken and dismantled 3D printer, electric guitar, Cretan lyre, and hand drums, out of which electro acoustic passages branch, creating a dynamic and compelling sonic journey that contrasts the freeness of improvised playing with the precision of tape music.
Live Show April 1st 2025 City University London
I will be presenting the UK premiere of a new multichannel electro-acoustic piece Nothing Makes Sense. I will also be joined by creative violist Julia Dos Reis for an improvised set.
Nothing Makes Sense was composed in February 2025 for a concert at the legendary Inner Spaces Primavera Festival in Milan. The backbone of the piece is a pre-recorded improvisation, utilising the sounds of a broken and dismantled 3D printer, electric guitar, Cretan lyre, and hand drums, out of which electro acoustic passages branch, creating a dynamic and compelling sonic journey that contrasts the freeness of improvised playing with the precision of tape music.
Tickets are very reasonably priced with free options for the unwaged, City staff and students.
Tickets here – don’t miss this!
Live Show November 30th 2024 Crucible Playhouse Sheffield
I’m really excited to be playing a music in the round double bill with the fantastic Graham Dunning at the Crucible Playhouse at the end of November. I’ve been working hard developing more ways of turning gritstone into music and drawing huge inspiration for the beauty of the Burbage valley.
Doors at 7:30, Graham at 8:00pm and I’m on at 9:00pm.
Tickets available here
I’ve been showing some of my gig prep progress on my Instagram
Forester v1.5 Out Now!
Unique and inspiring modular sonic playground.
For Mac (Intel & M1), and Windows computers. MORE INFO…
You might be happy to know that I’m working on Forester 2021 at the moment, follow me on Twitter / Insta to get a sneak peak of where I’m at.
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Watch 5 Setups Around The House – Made for Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. It’s essentially an improvised live show meets Through The Keyhole.
Watch Lockdown Patchwork – Following a call for submissions of outdoor sounds recorded during lockdown, Leafcutter John has recorded a crowd-sourced musical artwork which explores the important role nature and access to green spaces has played during this uniquely challenging year. John has woven interviews into this evocative piece, including the words of poet Ian McMillan, beat boxer Jason Singh and nature writer Zakiya McKenzie.
Visual Art – The home for my plotted works.
A New Album is Born
I’m really excited to announce my new album, Yes! Come Parade With Us, which I’ve been sitting on it like a hen on her eggs for a few months now. I made the record using my modular synth and and a bounty of field recordings gathered on my summer holiday walking 60 miles of the Norfolk Coast Path. It also features two amazing drummers: Tom Skinner (Hello Skinny, Sons of Kemet) and my Polar Bear bandmate Seb Rochford.
The physical act of walking in Norfolk, drinking in all these amazingly wild vistas inspired the tempo and the melodies you’ll hear. Each song also contains sounds fresh from the coast – Doing The Beeston Bump opens with a walk on the pebble beach at Cley-Next-The-Sea. Elephant Bones contains the eerie sound of masts in the wind at Blakeney boat yard and on Pillar are a myriad of sounds from Wells harbour: slack water, moored fishing boats, and countless birds, including a tern catching its breakfast
Here is the first video single – Hope you enjoy it!
The record which will be available April 19th on vinyl, CD, and digital will be coming out on Border Community which is home to James Holden, Luke Abbott, and Nathan Fake amongst others.
I’d love it if you came to hear me perform it live and I can transport you to the Norfolk coast, metaphorically speaking.
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