Performed on Saturday 21st June 2014. Polyply @ The Peckham Pelican 

Portraits of the MIddleincome (Lyric Suite Live)

Gertrude Stein on Matisse in Schubert, Varese, Ligeti et al.

One Doing (Zwischenraume)

Benjamin and Kyle Graham sparring in the snow plus reflective melancholic synth accompaniment

Snowspar (Zwischenraume)

Performance of the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters with electronic interpolation


Kaossonata (Brixton 2010)

Performance of Portraits of the Middleincome with Nathaniel Dye (Trombone, Balloon, Bowl, Claps & Chants).
With many thanks to Gregorio Fontaine, Veer and the Venezeulan Embassy for inviting us to perform. 

Portraits of the Middleincome w. Nathaniel Dye (@Bolivar Hall - 27.11.14) 1

Nathaniel Dye & Ollie Evans.
First version of an opening to an Album from the future.

The Song of Marcelo Cielomar

From May 2014. Leanne Bridgewater (1989-2019) entertained a London audience with her verbal-visual gags and puns, little songs and excerpts from her pamphlet, Sentience (Stoma, 2014). 

She was an incomparable spirit who touched everyone she met with joyous energy. She is achingly missed. We love you, Leanne.

Leanne Bridgewater's Sentience Launch,  Stoma Launch @ Birkbeck, London, 2nd May 2014

playing with MW frequency at 2200hrs in Beckton

MW:knobflick (9/10/12)

Gone, Walking
a Hörspiel about madness and walking.

Based on the artworks and writings of Hyacinth von Wieser (1883-1927); Thomas Bernhard's 'Gehen' (1971) and Georg Büchner's 'Lenz' (1836).
Music derived from Chopin's 'Raindrop' Prelude (No. 15).

Special thanks to Sabine Hohnholz and the Hans Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg. 


Gone, walking

It's often said that walking is a form of thinking.
But is thinking a form of walking? 

In this piece I've taken several words from Bernhard's Gehen and set them walking beside some words from my great-great-uncle Hyacinth. Between them, Büchner's Lenz will also appear, forever discomforted by his inability to walk on his head.

Gone, Walking

Recorded on Easter Sunday, 2020 

This is a short story from my ongoing work in progress based on memories and documents from my Austrian family's history. 

This surreal Easter story is based on a sequence of poems by my great Grandfather, Kurt von Wieser. Around 1912 he wrote a very odd poem about Johannes Hase (John Hare), the Easter hare. The hare tries to impress his Aunt by laying her an egg, but he puts in so much effort that he ends up laying himself into the egg! On the one hand it seems like a very elaborate and phenomenologically complex reworking of the resurrection myth, on the other it offers rich material for psycho-analysis as the devotion to a family member is transferred into a cycle of eating and excreting. 

I recorded it in my garden, complete with birdsong, the odd car and plane and children playing in the background. There is also some music made by myself and Alia Butt.

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