About
Performing "Mourning" (Second Phase from Hidden Language of Birds) At the ArtsDepot London.
Hello and thanks for popping by. This is going to be my new home as I document various sonic arts projects, compositions and my other passions. Equines. Horses ‘n music. Like Beer ‘n chips.
If you don’t know me or my circumstances. I am currently studying my final year in BA in Sonic Arts at University in London after that I look forward to progressing but let’s get this year out of the way before then.
I’m a composer performer. Less interested in recording and more in playing… live… to audiences. I compose for performances utilizing field recordings as a form of environmental storytelling narrative – creating what I call ‘Environmentalogues’a shameless portmanteau word that evokes a very specific, definite and intimate composition using recorded sound represented in such a way as to evoke a narrative that immerses the listener as it takes us on a journey through a dynamically changing sonic environment — a moving audioscape with themes and ideas I return to and re-explore in different ways and contexts. I play live. Some of my compositions extend into sub and near infra regions — deliberately so, thus what you hear though tiny little computer speakers is just an indication of what happens live.
Much of my work is performed using self-built controller hardware as performance tools alongside open-source software; where necessary, patching, utilizing and adapting code. I however do not consider myself to be an “electronic” or “techno” musician. I do play various ‘primitive’ instruments (processed didjeridu and wooden flutes) alongside the more modern double bass which I have been playing since the late seventies and, of course, the Chapman Stick.
I favour working with naturally harvested and ‘found sounds’ using samples as the foundation for my compositions, choosing and layering them for their texture to create very specific audio effects and sonic artefacts;
Finally I am not an electronic musician, but I do work the area of Electroacoustics. I do not use synthesisers or synthetic sounds, although sometimes processed heavily, none of what you hear originates in synthesis.
Sometimes new and unpredictable things happen when you work this way.
So please sit back, enjoy the ride.
