My work can be considered multi-disciplinary, having grown to encompass audio-visual composition, performance art as well as installation. Coming from a background in Fine Art, having studied at the CASS School of Art, I am now completing my studies in contemporary composition and sonic art practice at Goldsmiths, University of London, which has greatly enriched the breadth of my creative practice.
Having worked substantially in sculpture and video, I now include these disciplines in my composition work, creating various pieces for small ensemble that consider the visual as much as the sonic. Alongside I also make purely sonical pieces, which realise my usual interest in dissecting, investigating and understanding the material used to compose them. Performing solo at times, with voice or other instruments such as piano or electronics, I also often collaborate with artists from various fields.
I’m currently the Artistic Director of the NME - New Music Ensemble, which takes great pride in working with various disciplines and in thinking conceptually through music and performance art, and I’m also continuously presenting and developing work with the ensemble, both as composer and performer. In 2014 I co-founded ‘The LivingRoom’ with curator Cristina Ramos, a nomadic space dedicated to the curation of multi-disciplinary art forms in non-gallery spaces, exploring the boundaries between the display and the work itself.
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‘To work together and to strengthen each other’
When I first encountered the ‘Redmond Files Album’ I was delighted to hear such a great breath of musical expression and versatility. I wanted to keep that essence in my track, not to go astray from it, so I believed the best option was to make a compilation of my favourite moments of the long sound file I was given. What also interested me was the way the workshop leader conducted the sessions, what he asked or pointed at, and the great responses obtained from the participants.
My track is inherently investigative in nature, clearly displaying its construction devices, with the edits to each sound fragment being minimal. The track is structured by various sections, these being split between the voice clips of the workshop leader, relating what he mentioned each time with the sounds that followed. The title itself derives from one of these spoken clips, stating: “this isn’t easy for anybody, but the way to success is to work together, to work together and to strengthen each other”. This stroked me as something important to retain and keep in the track for the value of its message in that particular environment, but also to everyone else who listens to it.
I wanted to expose the collaborative and open-ended nature of the activity and how the group gathered to create such music, revealing also the fact of it being a recording of an actual organic event. From the warm-ups to the building of the musical sections and soundscapes, one of the core ideas behind the track was to show the great development of the group’s modes of relation and interaction, and to create this perception also for the listener.
Another fantastic release from the mighty Sahel Sounds label, this soundtrack turns desert blues into exploratory ambient soundscapes. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 3, 2018
