From the 3rd until the 9th of June Gob Squad will present a new video installation in the foyer of HAU1 in Berlin. For this project I reworked music that I originally composed with Jeff McGrory as Animal Magic. I have also created some additional sound design for the piece. Edits of the musical content
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Merge
I am currently in Hamburg, creating a new performance called Merge with Sounding Situations at Kampnagel. I’m providing the technical management and lighting design for the show. Merge premieres on Thursday May 26th and runs until May 29th. Here is some background information… In a photograph from 1906, a crowd in southern Rwanda gathers for
Die Glücksformel
This week I am working at Theater Gütersloh, creating a piece of music theatre with 75 children, 6 actors and 3 musicians. The performance is a collaboration between the Liz Mohn Kultur- und Musikstiftung und der Gesellschaft in Bewegung e.V. I’m very happy to have the opportunity to work with my friend and choreographer Andreas
Soundcloud
I’ve updated my Soundcloud page incorporating the design work from my Tzara Music Bandcamp site. It contains sketches and ideas as well as recently completed works.
Das stille Leben der verlorenen Dinge
For most of November I’ve been creating the sound design for “Das stille Leben der verlorenen Dinge (The Quiet Living Of Lost Things)”, an installation at the Kunstverein Wagenhalle in Stuttgart. Combining site-specific performance, installation, live radio play and object theatre, it tells the story of a one-armed 15-year-old-girl who embarks on a fantastical journey.
1984 Back To No Future
Since our ‘ghost premiere’ at the Hebbel-Am-Ufer Theater (HAU2) in April this year, we have toured “1984 Back To No Future” to theatres in Copenhagen, Leipzig, Odense and Dresden. Finally, we present this new work to audiences in HAU3, with the actual Berlin premiere this coming Monday November 1st. The show then runs until Saturday
Planet LOL
Last Saturday in Brighton saw the premiere of the new play from Paul Hodson’s The Future Is Unwritten. Planet Lol is a myth for our times: a fast-paced female-led drama about facing up to reality and rewriting your endings. I wrote the music, created the sound & lighting design and managed the technical aspects of the production. This
On The Strandline
Here’s a wonderful trailer for the new Prodigal UPG / Emergent Ensemble production “On The Strandline”. I was commissioned in July to compose the soundtrack for the performance. It was an absolute delight to work on this during the summer months and I’m thrilled with the results!
Creatures Of Stillness
On Monday September 6th there will be a memorial event at HKW in Berlin to celebrate the life of my very good friend Jeff McGrory, who sadly passed away in December of last year. I first met Jeff ten years ago when I began working with Gob Squad, the Berlin-based arts collective. Very soon after,
Transforming Transmission
I will be in Hamburg from Monday June 14th for two weeks, helping to develop a new performance “Transforming Transmission” by the company Sounding Situations (SNDNG STTNS). It is part sound-walk, with members of the audience having the role of ‘the orchestra’, & part music concert, with a live link between musicians in Bujumbura, Burundi
1984 Back To No Future
In April 2021 Gob Squad ‘premiered’ a new touring show “1984: Back to No Future” at HAU2 in Berlin. I provided technical management and created the lighting design. Sadly due to the corona situation there was no audience. However this ‘ghost’ premiere and the four subsequent performances that week gave us the opportunity to make