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Invited by Sir John's publisher Music Sales Classical in 2009 to consider a project with him in the future I created a series of rewordings and deconstructions of his work.

Here is one demo which I offer as a gift to his spirit on the day of his passing, 12 November 2013. That collaboration will never happen in the form we intended but very soon more will be revealed. RIP sir.

Mother of God (Sir John Tavener Mix)

Soundtrack to film 'Falling Forward' produced at Le Fresnoy National Centre for Contemporary Arts Tourcoing France

Falling Forward

Award-winning sci-fi writer Geoff Ryman's was commissioned to write a new story for the BBC, investigating the portrayal of gender in utopian science fiction, as part of BBC Radio 4's Utopia season.

I scored the new work and a separate documentary exploring the subject. This is an instrumental excerpt from the score as many people had expressed an interested in hearing it again.

No Point Talking

My Remix of "Footpaths" from new https://soundcloud.com/scanner record. Thanks to Robin Rimbaud for making available his stems across Blend web site

Footpaths - (Scanner) - Kivitog Remix

As thrilled as I was to be invited to support American pianist Harold Budd in London in April 2018, for his first show there in 17 years, I was equally dispirited by the cancellation of the event suddenly last week.

In the absence of this live show then here's a version of a piece I intended to perform on the night itself as a little tribute to Budd, and for the audience. I hope you will enjoy it and imagine sitting in a Church in London, only the creaking of the wooden benches and occasional shoe shuffles and coughs as your only other sonic distraction.

It's a version of his tune Late October, originally heard on The Pearl (1984), in collaboration with Brian Eno and produced by Daniel Lanois.

For Harold

Late October

Source material recorded at the EMP in Seattle using our mobile phones. We improvised for 10 minutes with these two really terrible digital keyboards and recorded everything using the phone's voice memo function. With a little bit of processing in the studio afterward, I constructed this piece, adding some field recordings I captured during the Substrata Festival field trip.

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Today is a troubling day for many in the UK. After the results of an election that was plagued and stained with lies and deception, we are now left in a very precarious position. Many friends are feeling very dispirited and lost today, as am I. So, I sat in the studio this morning and improvised live to the celebratory speech of the winning party. In response to the situation I then reversed parts of it, as well as using a recording of this very speech and buried it deep within the music, again playing backwards. It's clear to many that this political situation is not taking us forwards, but rather back to a nostalgic and challenging past. So, for this moment, use this music to relax and switch off the news.

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