2024
Barbican Conservatory (London, UK) : ‘COME CLOSER’ interactive sound sculpture made by 0p3nh4nd Ensemble. 0p3nh4nd is a collective of trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming musicians, sound-artists, dancers and visual artists - supported by the Imagine Fund.
Athens Video Dance : Pleasures 650 film screening; directed Joseph Campbell and Oscar Oldershaw; w. verbatim sound from first studio explorations Guildhall Live Electronics Ensemble; ft. movement artist Fortune Tailed Beast.
Museum Folkwang (Essen, DE) : Sound for Petja Ivanova’s film within her ‘Soma of The Land’ exhibition / installation.
Saeva Dupka Cave, (Brestnitsa, BG) : ‘the gods were tired when you fell’ w. Petja Ivanova, Alexandra Gruebler, Natalia Jordanova, Camilla Strandhagen, Sarah Kantrowitz. Interdisciplinary sound and movement performance within the cave ft. speculative eco-fiction; dance & music performance; and speculative lecture on geothermal power in the region.
Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London, UK) - Live Electronics Ensemble 2.0 perform ‘The Wild Beyond’ w. dancer Charlie Nayler and Choreography by Ethan Samuel Jacobs.
Reference.Point 180 (London, UK) : Displaced: For Palestine نازح لفلسطين An evening of film, music and conversion dedicated to Palestine. Live improvised music performances, delving into a rich merging of soundwords from Khabat Abas, Roxanna Albayai, Silai Estatiras and NMBC. Profits donated to Grassroots International’s emergency fund for Palestine.
League of Stars (Skroponeria, GR) : Lucid dreaming movement practice research w. stories of the sky at astro-retreat artist residency.
Treadwell’s Books (London, UK) : Full Moon Sound Bath for Magic series
MONOM (Berlin, DE) - ‘something about fire’ interactive dance and improv music performance in spatial sound using 4DSound software and the Monom system w. Anna Herrmann, Raphaela Andrade Cordova, jamante, Anne Wichmann
Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London, UK) - Formed the Guildhall Live Electronics Ensemble 1.0 w. live performance ‘Dragon Fairytale’ feat. Alice Sparkly Kat (text); Fortune Tailed Beast (movement); Roxanna Albayati (co-facilitation of the ensemble and cello) and Guildhall electronic, film music and jazz students ; ‘Dragon Fairytale’ piano piece composed and performed by Wenshan Yu. Opening the event with ‘CS (Classical Scandal)’ - Computational artist Batool Desouky's performed adaptation of "Careful Slugs: Caring for Unknowing in CS (Computer Science)" written by Helen Pritchard and Ren Loren Britton; w. live slug sound worlds.
2023
Desire Lines : Moving and Listening Bodies at Glengall Wharf Garden. Organised by and for neurodiverse and disabled queers - a multidisciplinary project that centres community healing at the intersection of music, art and ecology, curated by El Hardwick and Opashona Ghosh
St. Margaret’s House : Dreaming and Listening Matrix. Collaboration with Iggy Robinson and Sasha Wilde, to develop a new form of social dreaming matrix with sound in trans community
Treadwell’s Books : New Moon Sound Bath for Magic series
2022
Chisenhale Dance Space : Monthly R&D : Practical Research to workshop Lucid Dreaming Movement Practice methodologies with performer and choreographer A De La Fe
Spanners : Love and Kindness Spell for our queer and trans community. An improvised live sound ritual with Sasha Wilde feat. DIY wearables and a 4 voice choir with members of F*Choir
Treadwell’s Books : The Planets Sound Bath for Magic series
IKLECTIK : ‘The Port of Ghosts’ w. Sasha Wilde and Byuka. Interactive emergent composition with wearable tech and spatial sound to create conditions for collaborative feeling and channeling in the present moment
IRCAM Forum / Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR) : R&D performance with Sasha Wilde and Yuki Nakayama utilising wearable gestural technologies, interactive emergent composition and custom Max applications using camera data to record and spatialise sound
2021
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance : R&D for Ghost Orchestra / Port of Ghosts w. Roxanna Albayati, Kristjan Kannukene, Niya B and Matisse Ciel Pagès
Whitechapel Gallery : Ancestors of the Blue Moon with Himali Singh Soin
2020
NDY Global online soundbath meditations throughout the pandemic
Treadwell’s Books : Sound Magic online workshops
Cafe Oto : Signal Flow workshops : Creating, entering and sharing soundscapes w/ Angela Won-Yin Mak. Devised for London collective Convent : to support trans, non-binary, and femme artists to develop their practice through collaboration and cooperation, providing time and space to work / play
2019
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama : Dancestors with Intimate Animals
Siobhan Davies Dance : Trance Rhythms and Ritual Dance with Simone Campa and Movement /// Possession
OrganicLea : Various meditative herbal medicine and sound workshops for ‘all is leaf, so to amplify the wonder’ - a film by Rosalind Fowler with herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad, architect Claudia Palma and choreographer Fernanda Muñoz Newsome, supported by ACE / Barbican
Royal Albert Hall : Soil Ritual with Intimate Animals
Somerset House : Ritual Labs monthly movement and sound mythic ritual workshops - considering the relationship between sound, embodied narrative & performance trance w. choreographer A de la Fe and monthly guest performers and facilitators
2018
Somerset House : Ignota Books Launch - Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry : ‘Nigredo’ theatre ritual
Somerset House : Elements w/ Jack Clearwater
Somerset House Studios / Music Hackspace : R&D Residency
Chisenhale Dance Space 35th Anniversary : Speculative Choreographies w. choreographer A de le Fe : Choreographing from the unconscious
2017
Performing live bass and bgv for Pumarosa ‘The Witch’ album tours
BL=NDFOLDS EP for Audio Network
2016
Apiary Studios : ‘Blackquinox’ Sound and Light Installation to induce and compose hypnogogic state with Nima Chalais
Performing live bass and bgv for Johnny Lloyd; studio recording on ‘Dreamland EP’ & 'Traffic'
Standardabweichung Interaktives ‘Develop your winning Formula’ for the The One Show
2015
Maison Valentino Fall/Winter 2015-16 ad campaign
Maison Valentino Spring/Summer 2015 ad campaign
2011 - 2014
Vuvuvultures (band) / The I5land (club night) / Energy Snake Records (label)
2004 - 2010
Session musician / performer / composer : Various projects : bass, electronics and bgv; based in Nashville, TN and then London, UK from 2008.
Teaching :
Electronic and produced music professor (2022 -..) / Lead professor of live electronics (2023 -..) at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Education :
Guildhall School of Music and Drama : ‘Erotics of Performance with Music Technology..’ PhD research (2023 - …ongoing
SAE Institute : BA (Hons) in Audio Production (2022)
British Academy of Sound Therapy : Sound Therapy Practitioner Diploma (2020)
London College of Clinical Hypnotherapy : Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (2019)
ISI-CNV : Mesmerism Practitioner Diploma (2018)
Awards:
Oram Awards (2022) Nomination.
The One Show (2016) Honorable mention. Develop Your Winning Formula with Standardabweichung Interaktives Design.
Endorsements :
Orange Amps, Ashdown Amps, Sonuus