Monthly Newsletter – May 2024

​This month
On Sunday, in Clapham, terra invisus will perform Wound Honey, the piece they recorded so beautifully for their debut album, Visions. Wound Honey was somewhat of a breakthrough piece for me. It uses a musical illusion, combination tones, to recontextualise tonal and microtonal harmony in dark, glistening chorales. It’s a hard piece to play and I’m perpetually astonished by the virtuosity that terra invisus bring to it.

I’ll be there with some friends, so do come and join me. Tickets here.

Me at the Visions launch event.

Later in the month, I’ll be at the Noise Floor conference in Lisbon, playing my novel synthesiser, the Hyasynth, and talking about digital minimalism and tuning. 

Last month
This has been a month of project building, after finishing up my PhD. I’m particularly focused on making work with the Hyasynth. I started work with violinist Amalia Young on a new duo project with the instrument and started developing a new version of the instrument. (That said, it was mainly a month of holidays, recovering from my PhD with family and friends in Seville, Oxfordshire, and Berlin.)

Coming up
I have been granted a Rome Scholarship to work at the British School at Rome this autumn! I’ll be there from October to December, working in the archive of Giacinto Scelsi and developing my performance practice as an improvisor.
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8th June, York: My piece Absence will be performed by the Micklegate Singers, as part of a discussion of the creation of the work, alongside composers Frederick Viner and David McGregor. Details available here.