Tick is a piece made of sounds of a ticking metronome. Shifting, splintering, and refracting via the temporal and spatial domain.

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Tick was realized in 2015 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England, UK) and premiered on April 30, 2016 during the BEAST FEaST festival in Birmingham.

Composition

• 2015, Electroacoustic Music Studios — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Premiere

• April 30, 2016, BEAST FEaST 2016: Concert 6, Elgar Concert Hall — Bramall Music Building — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Mastering

• January 20 – 26, 2024, Adaq Khan • London (England, UK)

… coins… foil… metal pan… cellophane… bubblewrap… noise

A collection of found sound objects originally explored in a hands-on creative workshop exploring sound, object and mark making. The recorded found sound objects from this workshop were repurposed for this 8-channel composition.

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Abstracted Objects was realized in 2019 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England, UK) and premiered on May 3, 2019 during the BEAST FEaST festival in Birmingham. Thanks to The Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham for the opportunity to run several workshops with the Barber Collective. Abstracted Objects was awarded the Special Mention (Student Category) in the 11th Biennial Acousmatic Composition Competition Métamorphoses (Belgium, 2020).

Composition

• 2019, Electroacoustic Music Studios — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Premiere

• May 3, 2019, BEAST FEaST 2019: Concert 5, Elgar Concert Hall — Bramall Music Building — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Awards

• Special Mention, Student, 11th Biennial Acousmatic Composition Competition Métamorphoses 2020, Ohain (Belgium)

Mastering

• January 20 – 26, 2024, Adaq Khan • London (England, UK)

The waves of the sea ebb and flow, sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is treacherous, continuing to rise and fall, dispersing without change.

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Water Waves was realized in 2017 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England, UK) and premiered on March 19, 2017 during the Kelp Road concert in Birmingham. Water Waves was awarded the Excellence in Sound Art & Sound Design Prize in the klingt gut! Young Artist Award (Germany, 2018).

Composition

• 2017, Electroacoustic Music Studios — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Premiere

• March 19, 2017, Kelp Road, The Dome — Bramall Music Building — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Awards

• Excellence in Sound Art & Sound Design Prize, klingt gut! Young Artist Award 2018, Hamburg (Germany)

Mastering

• January 20 – 26, 2024, Adaq Khan • London (England, UK)

Cimbaal is primarily derived from close-up microphone recordings of a suspended cymbal. The sonic qualities of the cymbal are explored, with the piece transforming and transporting the sounds of the cymbal to different cosmic worlds. Particularly important is how the resonating qualities of the work build and fade, taking the listener on a journey to explore different spaces, pitches and timbres of the cymbal, whilst contrasts in motion and gestural activity — strikes, swooshes, gongs — explore the physicality of the instrument.

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Cimbaal was realized in 2015 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England, UK) and premiered on October 7, 2016 during the Emergence concert as part of the BEASTdome concert series in Birmingham.

Composition

• 2015, Electroacoustic Music Studios — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Premiere

• October 7, 2016, BEASTdome — Emergence, The Dome — Bramall Music Building — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Mastering

• January 20 – 26, 2024, Adaq Khan • London (England, UK)

Disrupted…
Troubled…
Unbalanced…

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Gestört [Disturbed] was realized in 2014-15 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England, UK) and premiered on May 23, 2015 during the Biała Noc — Kino Dźwięku: To the BEASTiary concert in the Przejście Żelaźnicze of the Instytut im Jerzego Grotowskiego in Wrocław (Poland).

Composition

• 2014 – 2015, Electroacoustic Music Studios — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Premiere

• May 23, 2015, Elektro-Vision: White Night — Sound Cinema: To the BEASTiary, Sala Teatru Laboratorium — Przejście Żelaźnicze — Instytut im Jerzego Grotowskiego, Wrocław (Poland)

Mastering

• January 20 – 26, 2024, Adaq Khan • London (England, UK)

A work combining close-up microphone recordings of a bicycle and field recordings from the Elbe tunnel in Hamburg (Germany), a 426-meter tunnel for pedestrians, bikes, and cars. Drawing on the cyclic, continuous nature of the material, the evolving sounds reference the never-ending structures found within such spaces.

The spatial environment subtly transitions and morphs between the two sound sources, taking the listener on a journey to different places, drawing on the philosophy of reality tunnels and this poem by Atticus:

Life is a tunnel
not a cave
keep walking
and you will find again
the light
you left behind.

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Isochrone was realized in 2020 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England, UK) and premiered on February 20, 2020 during the Electric Spring Festival 2020 in Huddersfield (England, UK).

Composition

• 2020, Electroacoustic Music Studios — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Premiere

• February 20, 2020, Electric Spring 2020: Louise Rossiter, Phipps Hall — Richard Steinitz Building — University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield (England, UK)

Mastering

• January 20 – 26, 2024, Adaq Khan • London (England, UK)

A series of dreams… Awake? Or still dreaming?

The sensations of falling, walking, moving vehicles, flowing water… what does this symbolise in our dreams? What images and thoughts does this evoke as we meander through the conscious-unconscious states of our minds? Awake? Or still dreaming?

This work surges between field recordings and close-up microphone recordings; blurring and shifting between abstract and real sound worlds. The textures highlight the complexity of these states, warping and distorting to provide an insight into our deepest selves.

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Distorted Illusions was realized in 2018 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England, UK) and premiered on January 25, 2019 during the Fingerprints + Awakenings concert in Milan (Italy). Distorted Illusions was awarded a Prize in the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis (Leuk, Switzerland, 2019).

Composition

• 2018, Electroacoustic Music Studios — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Premiere

• January 25, 2019, Fingerprints + Awakenings, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (Italy)

Awards

• Prize, Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2019, Leuk (Switzerland)

Mastering

• January 20 – 26, 2024, Adaq Khan • London (England, UK)

This 8-channel composition is in response to the sketch Froanna by Wyndham Lewis. Considering the lines, colours, shapes, and shading of the sketch this composition uses close-up microphone recordings of chalk on paper with blue noise and electronic sounds to transport the listener to an abstract interpretation of the emotive content of the work… a portrait of Lewis’ wife, Froanna. Follow the gestural strokes of chalk on paper… What do you hear? What do you see?

… a perpetual gaze…
… a clasped posture…
… a wife who was hidden from view…
… intensity…
… a sense of strain…
… an unfolding from the colour…
… blue…

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Sketching Froanna was realized in 2019 at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England, UK) and premiered on May 14, 2019 during the Nocturnes: A Woman Refigured event as part of the Barber Lates series in Birmingham. The piece was commissioned by The Barber Institute of Fine Arts.

Composition

• 2019, Electroacoustic Music Studios — University of Birmingham, Birmingham (England, UK)

Premiere

• May 14, 2019, Nocturnes: A Woman Refigured, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts — University of Birmingham – Photograph Room, Birmingham (England, UK)

Mastering

• January 20 – 26, 2024, Adaq Khan • London (England, UK)

Time…
Memories…
Remembering…

Elapsing reflects the passing of time, and how memories which feel as if they occurred yesterday are flashes of moments which gradually fade away. Whilst time is endless it passes quickly, proposing infinite opportunities for reflection, and offers a level of consciousness in our own subjective time.

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Elapsing was realized in 2021-22 at the Sound Studios of the University of Greenwich (England, UK) and premiered on May 11, 2022 during the Constructs concert as part of the Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series in Greenwich.

Composition

• 2021 – 2022, Sound Studios — University of Greenwich, London (England, UK)

Premiere

• May 11, 2022, Loudspeaker Orchestra Concert Series: Constructs, St Alfege Church, London (England, UK)

Mastering

• January 20 – 26, 2024, Adaq Khan • London (England, UK)