What would it sound like if a jukebox, lost at the bottom of a river, tried to make music again?
This piece was the result of a collaboration with Distractfold’s Daniel Brew and Alice Purton. “The juke box that drowned” combines my field recordings of aquatic environments with broken melodies of hits from the 1950s recovered on electric guitar and ‘cello.
While composing these tracks I was asking myself where we can find hope today, living in such a tortured world.
Recent civil disobedience movements have employed tactics and gestures inspired by water and light – movements which have been subject to unrelenting suppression.
I am thrilled to have my composition Teatime! presented as the first track on NMC’s CD release In These Exceptional Times. In November 2021 NMC launched The Big Lockdown Music Survey, an Arts Council England National Read more…
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