Live performance at the Dark Space Planetarium, Kirkcudbright, as part of Sonic Labs, 23rd May 2025. Performed with iPad, Ableton Live and midi keyboards. Recorded via Ableton Live with minimal secondary mastering for upload. Dark Space Part 1 Live is an improvised, textural and ambient piece slowly evolving with found sounds and feedback distortion.

Image captured from live video footage from the event courtesy of Sonic Labs and Jamie Little.

Dark Space Part 1 Live

Since moving to Dumfries and Galloway Taylor has  been focussed on improvisation, software based modular and iPad performance tools. Typically resulting in ambient and generative sound design. He is part of Sonic Labs, an improvisation group based at The Stove, Dumfries.

Taylor Nuttall is a composer, artist and sound designer. Seeking to avoid specific genres, his work is often a hybrid of influences that  incorporates found sounds and seemingly disparate though often very personal content. The environment, sustainability and climate change are a constant underlying thematic.

‘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 - @SpaceisthePlac9
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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