2024 – “Before, the Here and After” collaborative project with visual artists Zeroh, to make generative audio using site-specific field recordings and found sounds based on the environmental phenomenon of Ghostnets – discarded fishing nets that roam the seas, trapping within them the debris, flora and fauna in a perpetual cycle of life and death. Fully autonomous, they forever drift, constantly evolving and devolving – behaviours and systems which they share with generative processes. Commissioned by Bexhill After Dark, with a modified version shown at Sono Electric, Hastings.
2024 – “Out of Service” site-specific commission for Norfolk & Norwich Festival’s digital project Guildhall Sessions, curated by Laura Cannell. Focusing on the Guildhall’s role of Gaol across time, “Out of Service” is an antiquated term describing marginalised people perceived to be operating outside of society, not connected to a household; otherwise earning a living by their own means. Spoken 17th Century inmates’ names are woven into the verbatim graffiti of the later 1980s cell walls: this way that detainees communicated with each other is a secret, powerful, ongoing conversation that brings these people together across three centuries, their “crimes” unknown, unverified, subject to the power of others, and augmented by a soundscape recorded deep in the vaults, where the sound of the street still seeps in, the “out of service” of today, making their own anonymous contribution.
Recent Projects / Commissions / Residencies / Collaborations
- 2024 Collaboration with Spider Stacy & The Pogues for 40th anniversary concert at Hackney Empire and Dublin 3Arena
- 2024 headlined boutique festivals Cumberlandia and Northgate Folk Festival
- 2024 Remix of Jrjpej’s “Shexex (Chapshe wored)” for Ruins EP
- 2024 Midsummer Milton Keynes for Outlands Network
- 2023 Acid Morris radical folk/experimental/noise night @ Centrala Space, Birmingham
- 2023 London King’s Place Sound Unwrapped immersive 360 audio commission with visuals by Zeroh
- 2023 Brighton Festival immersive visuals by Zeroh + artist talk: Perspectives on Tradition
- 2023 Britten-Pears Arts week-long artist residency and performance at Snape Maltings
- 2023 Commission to reinterpret “Parasite” for “The Endless Coloured Ways” project (Chrysalis/Nick Drake Estate)
- 2023 Remix of Jim Ghedi’s “What Will Become of England?”
- 2023 Collaboration with Heresy Clothing
- 2023/2022 remix collaboration with Japanese Ainu artist OKI and performance at Café Oto / London Jazz Festival
- 2022 Late Junction (BBC Radio 3) collaboration/live session with experimental film composer Sarah Angliss
- 2022 Perspectives on Tradition artist residency and release with Nabihah Iqbal, Olugbenga, Jon1st supported by ACE and EFDSS
- 2021 Featured artists in Apple TV+’s The Essex Serpent (dir. Clio Bernard)
- 2017-2021 English Folk Field Recordings two volumes representing a snapshot of the current folk scene supported by ACE, EFDSS and PRSF