2024
Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Formed the Guildhall Live Electronic Ensemble with initial performance ‘Dragon Fairytale’ feat. Alice Sparkly Kat (text); Fortune Tailed Beast (movement); Roxanna Albayati (co-facilitation of the ensemble and cello) and Guildhall electronic, film music and jazz students ; ‘Dragon Fairytale’ piano piece composed and performed by Wenshan Yu. Live processing and spatial sound in ‘For Careful Slugs’ with computational artist Batool Desouky
2023
Desire Lines : Moving and Listening Bodies at Glengall Wharf Garden. Organised by and for neurodiverse and disabled queers - a multidisciplinary project that centres community healing at the intersection of music, art and ecology, curated by El Hardwick and Opashona Ghosh
St. Margaret’s House : Dreaming and Listening Matrix. Collaboration with Iggy Robinson and Sasha Wilde, to develop a new form of social dreaming matrix with sound in trans community
2022
Chisenhale Dance Space : Monthly R&D : Practical Research to develop communal Lucid Dreaming Movement Practice methodologies with performer and choreographer A De La Fe
Spanners : Love and Kindness Spell for our queer and trans community. An improvised live sound ritual with Sasha Wilde feat. DIY wearables and a 4 voice choir with members of F*Choir
IKLECTIK : ‘The Port of Ghosts’ w. Sasha Wilde and Byuka. Interactive emergent composition with wearable tech and spatial sound to create conditions for collaborative feeling and channeling in the present moment
IRCAM Forum / Centre Pompidou : R&D performance with Sasha Wilde and Yuki Nakayama utilising wearable gestural technologies, interactive emergent composition and custom Max applications using camera data to record and spatialise sound
2021
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance : R&D for Ghost Orchestra / Port of Ghosts w. Roxanna Albayati, Kristjan Kannukene, Niya B and Matisse Ciel Pagès
Whitechapel Gallery : Ancestors of the Blue Moon with Himali Singh Soin
2020
NDY Global online soundbath meditations throughout the pandemic
Treadwell’s Books : Sound Magic online workshops
Cafe Oto : Signal Flow workshops : Creating, entering and sharing soundscapes w/ Angela Won-Yin Mak. Devised for London collective Convent : to support trans, non-binary, and femme artists to develop their practice through collaboration and cooperation, providing time and space to work / play
2019
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama : Dancestors with Intimate Animals
Siobhan Davies Dance : Trance Rhythms and Ritual Dance with Simone Campa and Movement /// Possession
OrganicLea : Various meditative herbal medicine and sound workshops for ‘all is leaf, so to amplify the wonder’ - a film by Rosalind Fowler with herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad, architect Claudia Palma and choreographer Fernanda Muñoz Newsome, supported by ACE / Barbican
Royal Albert Hall : Soil Ritual with Intimate Animals
Somerset House : Ritual Labs monthly movement and sound mythic ritual workshops - considering the relationship between sound, embodied narrative & performance trance
2018
Music Hackspace : R&D Residency
Somerset House Studios : Ignota Books Launching Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry : ‘Nigredo’ theatre ritual
Chisenhale Dance Space 35th Anniversary : Speculative Choreographies w. choreographer A de le Fe : Choreographing from the unconscious
2017
Performing live bass and bgv for Pumarosa ‘The Witch’ album tours
BL=NDFOLDS EP for Audio Network
2016
Apiary Studios : ‘Blackquinox’ Sound and Light Installation to induce and compose hypnogogic state with Nima Chalais
Performing live bass and bgv for Johnny Lloyd; studio recording on ‘Dreamland EP’ & 'Traffic'
Standardabweichung Interaktives ‘Develop your winning Formula’ for the The One Show
2015
Maison Valentino Fall/Winter ad campaign
2011 - 2014
Vuvuvultures (band) / The I5land (club night) / Energy Snake Records (label)
Teaching :
Electronic and produced music professor (2022 -..) / Lead professor of live electronics (2023 -..) at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Education :
Guildhall School of Music and Drama : ‘Erotics of Performance with Music Technology..’ PhD research (2023 - …ongoing
SAE Institute : BA (Hons) in Audio Production (2022)
British Academy of Sound Therapy : Sound Therapy Practitioner Diploma (2020)
London College of Clinical Hypnotherapy : Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (2019)
Awards:
Oram Awards (2022) Nomination.
The One Show (2016) Honorable mention. Develop Your Winning Formula with Standardabweichung Interaktives Design.
Endorsements :
Orange Amps, Ashdown Amps, Sonuus