Composer, performer, educator

I make work with and about sound. I’m interested in the intersections between composition, improvisation, sonic art and embodied performance: the physical business of being a sounding, moving creature.

As an experimental musician and a transdisciplinary collaborator, a lot of what I do involves being in a state of uncertainty and trying to keep faith that it’ll all work out somehow in the end. This uncertainty, this not knowing what’s going on, is an exciting place to be, because that’s where ideas and realisations about what I do arise. It’s also a way for me to process my experience as a neurodivergent person in a world that’s not designed for people like me. I’ve been doing this my whole life subconsciously, but a late ADHD diagnosis opened up new possibilities to work with these strategies in a much more deliberate and considered way. Neurodivergence can be difficult to navigate but it also means I often have a lateral, off-kilter approach to what I do, a kind of approach that I think the world needs right now.

So I use uncertainty and ambiguity as deliberate creative strategies: not knowing what’s going on as a precursor to novel and interesting experiences and insights. All my work is collaborative to a greater or lesser degree: for me art is above all a social activity, and I’m more interested in the doing of it than whatever specific “work” is left behind after the doing is done. My aim is to build connection and community in a fractured world.