Leading up Brooke Roberts’ S|S 12 show at The Hospital Club I have working with fellow CiRs Brooke and Riccardo and have started making new music for the show. Last Monday Brooke and I had the opportunity to record sound from Medical Imaging equipment at The London Independent Hospital – I am using these recordings in my music.

Included in our recordings were the Doppler Ultrasound, which is typically used for vascular imaging, and also CT and Dexa Scan Machines. We were able to create and capture some incredible electronic and anatomical sounds that perfectly capture Brooke’s design ethos, ‘Science inspired Design’

Here are a couple of shots of the action:

Special thanks go to Sa Memon, Superintendent Radiographer, The London Independent Hospital and to Jamie Wagstaff for the pictures.

I’ve been working on the music for Cameron McMillan’s new dance piece, ‘If Nobody Speaks…’ on at the Clore Studio at the ROH tonight and tomorrow.  You can book tickets here.

Over the last couple of months I have been working with Year 8 pupils at Thomas Tallis school on a composition project based on this year’s Blackheath Halls Community Opera, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. The project kicked off with the pupils writing and performing their own letter pieces in response to Tatyana’s Letter Aria in Act I. We also had fun making up our version of the Duel Scene complete with actions and singing choruses from the opera. The project  was run in conjunction with Trinity Laban and culminated in a recording session in the studio at Trinity last week.

The Community Opera brings together members of the local community, professionals, Trinity Laban students and local school children. You can find out more and book tickets here.

I’m excited to have been selected to take part in the first stage of the London Sinfonietta Blue Touch Paper programme. A diverse group of composers, artists, writers, scientists and film makers will attend a Collaborator’s Day this Friday. This will be a chance for us to find out about each other’s work with a view to forming collaborative pairings. We’ll hear from a wide range of established artists who often work collaboratively and take part in discussions about different approaches to collaboration. Looking forwards!

I’ve been doing some research for a collaboration taking ‘labyrinth’ as a starting point. The piece will be a vocal trio performed within a labyrinthine structure.

The maze on the front is St. Catherine’s Hill turf Mizmaze:

“A mile or two outside Winchester and rising up above the village of Chilcombe is the rounded shoulder of St. Catherine’s Hill, on the summit of which lies a curious squarish “Mizmaze,” the execution of which is often ascribed by guidebooks to a Winchester boy who, detained at school during the vacation, beguiled his time by the fashioning of this earthwork and by the composition of the Wintonian “Dulce Domum”. WH Matthews

This is the Cretan Labyrinth, where the Minotaur was trapped.

Hampton Court Maze

Here is the beautiful maze sequence from Sally Potter’s film Orlando. And a bit of the David Bowie classic.

Took a bank holiday trip to visit Aid and Abet, a new artist run art space in Cambridge right by the station. It’s a great warehouse building with lots of nooks and crannies to explore as well as a really big main space with original features left in. I met David Kefford and CJ Mahoney, two of the co-founders, on the Crop Marks residency. They have exciting plans afoot! Next project, Art As A Full Time Hobby, starts 1st July.