Since my live musical work was suspended in March 2020 I have been developing a practice derived from listening to my habitat. This has led to two strands of work: Music in the Garden and Exeter Sound Walks. Exeter Sound Walks have been shortlisted for a ‘Sound Walk September 2020’ award, a project of Walk. Listen. Create. I studied music at Manchester and York Universities. In the ‘before times’ I performed on violin with Lavolta ensemble, Exeter Contemporary Sounds, Icebreaker and in other groups and on all sorts of platforms. I co-curate with Tony Whitehead A Quiet Night In, creating performances of quiet contemporary music otherwise neither performed nor widely-known in Devon and providing a context for the exploration of the creative possibilities in quiet/silence. I am a Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra musician, touring the south west with BSO chamber groups, and co-leading with Hugh Nankivell BSO’s Exeter Family Orchestra. I am an activist composer whose practice is driven by the climate emergency and our place in it, combining recordings, live instruments and tools/objects, and sometimes eliciting audience participation. In 2019 I created new pieces for Scare the Horses, the Agatha Christie International Festival, music for the film Ouroboros Dumnonii and a living musical sculpture for Torbay’s Eyeview festival.
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