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Connecting Across Difference was an exciting collaboration between Drake Music and Furtherfield.org. The project brought together 3 schools from Tower Hamlets to compose and perform a piece of music. Working as the Music Technologist in conjunction with composers Kerry Andrew and Ed Farmer, alongside associate musicians Melanie Clifford, Anya Ustaszewski and Victoria Oruwari, the team created a piece that wove together traditional instrumentation, beatbox, singing and assistive music technologies. The final performance took place in the V&A Museum of Childhood with more than 40 participants spread over 3 floors!

For more detailed documentation please visit the Connecting Across Difference Blog which followed the progress of the project from start to finish!

Rebbecca Frankel asked me to create 15 minute composition to introduce her multi-sensory film screening  ‘Celluloid Dreams’ at the Loop Festival 2008 in Brighton. Taking the John Water’s Smell-O-Vision films of the 80s as a starting point, it was an eclectic collection of short films with sensory surprises! The composition I created can be listen to below. Further to this, I also created quadrophonic sound installation around a fabric tunnel on the entrance to the cinema.

Listen to an extract:

‘Hypnic Jerk 4′ was an exercise in sleep disruption and was exhibited as part of ‘Schadenfreuding’ in The Crypt (St GilesChurch, Camberwell Church Street, SE5) between the 17th & 20th of June 2008 as part of Camberwell Arts Week.

3 x 60 minute cassettes, cassette player (60 minute improvised loop), magnetic tape, foam, card & fairy lights.