mix of two improvisations done with two violins held underwater in fast flowing river so that the different currents "bow" the strings. It's very much an interactive experience improvising with the river itself. The river is the Devil's Water in Northumberland, a tributary of the River Tyne between Corbridge and Dilston. this is the first experiment in a long-term environmental sound-art project.

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Human since 1980, husband since 2005, pro guitarist, radio, 🎧 Songs Out Loud 🎧 ... thrives in summer, imbibes, occasional beagles

Cellist. Noisey person. Figuring out the next stage of my musical/sound life.

I use technology to create immersive pieces and installations. I have performed and exhibited across the UK and Europe at venues including Ars Electronica, SARC, Snape Maltings, ICA and the Tate Modern. My work has been broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 & 4, Resonance FM and The Discovery Channel. I am also one of Sound and Music's Embedded composers, in residence with RPS Award winning Apartment House

I grew up in Newcastle and began playing the recorder at primary school along with everyone else. However unlike everyone else I never grew out of it.  I studied for a music degree at King’s College London in 2001, whilst studying recorder at the Royal Academy of Music and later at the Royal College of Music. Whilst in London I put on and performed in various concerts, including performing for a Yoko Ono art installation in St Paul’s Cathedral. 

I moved to Gateshead in 2008 and am now in the process of setting up a business called Flautino, the focus of which is to change the commonly held perception of the recorder being an instrument purely for primary school children, and to show what beautiful music it is capable of producing. 

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