Delighted to have been invited to play a live improvised set at Sono Electro 2023, Hastings, curated by James Wilkie, Colin Booth and Jillienne Sellner. I’ll be joined by my good friend and collaborator, Joe Zeitlin for an improvised set of cello, violin and live electronics. The piece will be a direct response to the local ecology and our experiences in St Leonards, Hastings.

I’m so happy to have had the chance to join Gemma on her brilliant Soho Radio show, Composers on Film. I had the chance to select some of my favourite pieces of music, from Jonny Greenwood to Ernest Hood and of course, talk about my love for John Cage, whose work has inspired me so much. We also listen to some of my own music, including cues from Grayson’s Art Club, Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm, Surviving Covid, Black Power and an exclusive preview one of my cues from Hannah Berryman’s upcoming feature documentary about Coco Chanel.

Thank you Gemma, for inviting me on. I really enjoyed our conversation.

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I’m delighted that the first episode of Professor Green: Working Class White Men will be screening in the Princess Anne Theatre at BAFTA, Piccadilly on the 4th January 2018, as a preview to its broadcast on Channel 4. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Professor Green and Christian Collerton, the series director.

Presented by Professor Green the documentary series explores what life is really like for working class white men, why many of them feel abandoned, and what the consequences are for Britain if we continue to look away. Raised by his Nan on a council estate in Hackney, Professor Green is himself from a working class, low income background.

Over a period of six months he follows six working class white men in different parts of the country to understand what life in modern Britain is like for them. He examines the challenges and barriers these men face in education, work, family life and in the way the rest of society regards them.

On Sunday 23rd July, I had the privilege of spending a day in residency at Somerset House, exploring the relationship between music and scent alongside Edition Perfume founder Timothy Han and fellow composer Roman Rappak. On the day, we composed and performed musical reactions based on scents mixed by Timothy, in the Givodan-sponsored Perfume Lab, in front of a live audience. Read a full breakdown of the performance here.

The combination of music and scent forms part of our collective work with Miro Shot – a project which aims to fuse live VR together with live music and sensory feedback to create an immersive reality concert which is experienced as part interactive music video and part live concert.

The Perfume Exhibition runs at Somerset House until the 31st August 2017.

Following our three day residency at the Institute of Modern Art in Amsterdam, the BBC have published an article, featuring a dissection of the experience and discussing how ‘virtual reality may change your life’. Many thanks to Vincent Dowd for coming to the show and writing the piece.