I'll be appearing on Tuesday 27 September at the Horse Improv Club.
I'll be playing in a trio with two fine musicians: Tansy Spinks and Rahel Kraft.

It's all happening at I'Klectik Art Lab near Waterloo: Old Paradise Yard 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG
Doors at 8pm.

Come on down, and also check out the Horse's lineuop for the rest of the autumn, therey've got a lot of fantastic people playing.

I've contributed a new track to the latest Cities and Memory project, The Next Station.

Ozymandias is based on a field recording taken on the Emirates Air Line in North Greenwich.


I'll be playing this Sunday, 12 June at the Black Heather Club as part of a performance of Quasi-Mode III by Paul Rutherford. Loads of fantastic musicians playing (and me), all hosted by Max Reinhardt of R3's Late Junction.

Sunday 12 June, 7.30pm
(pre-show event at 6pm)
Blackheath Halls, SE3 9RQ
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 Automatic Writing was written and recorded during February 2016 for the RPM Challenge.

It's a 10-track album combining elements of chance, improvisation, collage and doom metal.
The rules I imposed on myself for the project were:

• No pre-composition
  
• Recordings must be made using only objects already existing in the environment where the recording is being made. No object to be intentionally introduced.
  
• Conventional instruments may be used, but must not be brought artificially into the envionment where the recording is being made and must be played as they are, with no tuning or other preparation
  
• Performed elements must not be edited (other than superimposition for collage)
  
• Collage elements must be superimposed randomly with no editing or time-shifting once they have been placed.
• Only material recorded during February 2016 to be used in the making of the album
• No re-takes

I broke all of these rules at least once.

Download here.

For the first of what I hope will be several interesting projects this year, I've contributed a new track to Dada Sounds, an online project celebrating 100 years of Dada. The site goes live on Friday 5 February, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Cabaret Voltaire.

Parrots of Abbey Wood is based on a field recording I made in October 2015 of the sounds of the colony of parakeets that resides in Lesnes Abbey Woods in southeast London. Collage, processing and chance operations were all used to create the track. Everything you hear in it comes from the original recording.

Dada is one of those artistic movements that began as something shocking and outré, and has now become so enmeshed in our culture that we hardly notice it anymore. I'm very pleased to be a part of a project celebrating a movement that's had a profound effect on my on work, in ways that I'm both conscious of and also (re)discovering every day.

More music that happened by accident in between larger projects. Download the score here.
I had the sound of a melodica in my mind, but there's no reason it can't be played on any other instrument you have to hand.

A lot of projects that have been ongoing for a very long time are nearing completion, so hopefully there will be a string of posts appearing here in the near future. In the midst of all this I wrote a new piece for solo cello by accident. It's called simply Here, and you can hear a rough recording of it and download a score here.

It's a long piece - just shy of 100' in the recording linked above. It's concerned with the overtones produced by simpley playing two tones together on a cello. It's a continuation of my interests in just intonation and drones. I think La Monte Young's influence is pretty obvious but there's a whole load of other stuff too. Above all, this is a piece that requires virtuosity - not of acrobatics of fingers,  but of listening and existing in the moment, here, now.