Michaela’s dramatic and haunting cinematic folk music has emerged from years of songwriting, theatre work, and perfecting her sound as a session singer and pianist. She has released an EP Ripe Fruit and the concept album DARK NATURE, from which ‘The Rose’ music video has won:

Best in Creative AI - Australian XR Festival Awards 2023
Best Horror Music Video - Tabloid Witch Awards
Best Film (Experimental) - Canberra Short Film Festival
Best Animation - Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival 2023

Michaela has released albums with art-pop band Theghostorchestra, she was the main vocalist on the feature film Slipstream and once taught Gina McKee to play the piano for BBC drama Mothertime.

Born in Antwerp, and raised in a rambling house in Yorkshire, Michaela was the daughter of travelling folk musicians. Her father David F Betts was a singer/songwriter and TV composer while her Swedish mother’s stepdad was the writer Bengt Nerman, and his father the journalist Ture Nerman, a famous Swedish socialist who met Lenin in 1917. 

The isolation and freedom of living in the middle of nowhere shaped Michaela and her writing growing up. The harshness and beauty of nature, and resisting but needing change, are recurring themes. In 2020 she took up Transcendental Meditation which had a huge impact on her state of mind and outlook.

Michaela lives with her partner and children in a rented farm workers cottage in Surrey. She records in a converted shipping container in the garden. ‘The house is small, so the container was brought down from Norfolk on a truck, and hoisted over the fence,’ she says. ‘My partner kitted it out with a live room and recording studio. We’re not the kind of people to have extravagant holidays, instead we spend what money we have on studio gear!’

Adam is a sound designer, composer, producer, sound recordist and performer of Edgelands-Electronica. 
He has created sound designs and music scores for theatre, dance productions, radio and audio dramas, audiobooks, podcast series, and film. He has also devised several multi-speaker, interactive sound installations for galleries and museums. 
His work for theatre focusses on creating soundscapes that combine ambiences with music and digitally manipulated sound recordings to create complex, evolving audio environments, developing sonic scenography for live or recorded dramatic narratives. Edgeland Electronica is Adam’s interpretation liminal and psychogeographical environments in audio form.
Adam is a trustee of Can’t Sit Still Theatre and an associate artist with 1623 Theatre and Little Pixie Productions. 
Socials: @AdamPMcCready
Music available at Bandcamp: https://adampmccready.bandcamp.com/

Since relocating to Dumfries & Galloway, Taylor has concentrated on improvisation, using software‑based modular systems and iPad performance tools alongside Ableton Live. This focus typically yields ambient, generative soundscapes. He also performs with Sonic Labs, an improvisational collective based at The Stove in Dumfries.

Taylor Nuttall is a composer, artist, and sound designer who deliberately avoids confining himself to any single genre. His work blends a wide array of influences, incorporating found sounds and other personal material. Underlying all of his creations are recurring themes of environment, sustainability, and climate change.

‘Is This Just One Day’, a 30 minute evocative soundscape was produced after winning a commission for the Sounds of Silence program by Aerial Festival, launched in September 2020. Taylor has been involved in a number of collaborative projects most recently working with artist and curator Dominic Smith to produce ‘Triangulation’ an EP released by Etched Traumas in August 2021.

After working extensively in the arts for many years leading multimedia arts organisation Folly and as a founding director of Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Taylor is currently a board member for Full of Noises, a sound art and new music organisation based in a public park on Cumbria’s Furness Peninsula.

Having recently moved from the Lake District to Dumfries and Galloway Taylor Nuttall lives on a small holding near Castle Douglas with a small flock of sheep. 

Taylor Nuttall trained as a visual artist and has an early exhibition career with artworks featuring painting, print, sculpture, photography and installation. In the late 80’s and early 90’s he began to explore the potential of creativity using computer technologies. As well as exhibiting these works in traditional gallery spaces this led to a number of pieces being designed to be experienced online as virtual artworks. These virtual artworks also began to explore the use of sound. Taylor is now working with sound, drawing upon composition and musical skills he learned from playing piano and classical guitar as well as re-learning more robustly about sound design, composition and music theory.

'Is this just One Day?' released September 2020, a new commision for Aerial Festival. https://aerialfestival.com/

Without Visual - April 2021 - https://www.instagram.com/surmise_collective/

EP - ‘Triangulation’ released by Etched Traumas -August 2021 - https://archive.org/details/et132_tn_and_ds_triangulation

The Stove Inprovisation showcase, Market of Possibilities, Dumfries 2023

Hidden Gems Festival, Dumfries 2024

FON 15th Anniversary Concert, Piel House, Barrow in Furness 2024

Sound Lab Showcase, The Stove, Dumfries 2024

Dark Space Planetarium, Kirkudbright 2025

Cryptic Nights, CCA, Glasgow 2025

Tracks played on:
BBC Radio Introducing - BBC Radio Cumbria
Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cumbria
Space is the Place Radio Show - Cando FM - @SpaceisthePlace
The Magic Window - MadWaspRadio - https://madwaspradio.com/
Hello Goodbye Radio Show - Resonance FM - https://hellogoodbyeshow.com/
Star & Shadow Radio https://soundcloud.com/tynesidesounds
Eagle Nest Radio - @eaglesmusicnest

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