400ppm…

News today that even Antarctica is now experiencing 400ppm CO2 levels. We are truly Generation CO2! We hear a lot about the stress it is putting on our environment, the […]

Encounter with the crocodile man

Simon McBurney in The Encounter at the Oxford Playhouse last night: a master class is vibrant, visceral, thoughtful relevant theatre. McBurney himself was, quite literally, the encounter. And for me, one […]

Breathing in the Cretaceous

Today, simply a still from the video I made as part of ‘Score for a Flautist’.

Learn a lot … in order to forget.

I am looking into sound (or maybe I should say listening in) to low frequency sounds, as used so effectively in many movie trailers: that deep boom or swish that you […]

Birthmark

Like a birthmark across the face of England, the chalklands stretch from Lulworth Cove on the south coast to Flanborough Head on the northeast. Huxley gave his famous talk in […]

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who made it to our performance Score for a Flautist the other evening. Really enjoyed the event and good to hear your comments after. Tadek and I […]

Final preparation for tonight

Making the last changes to this evening’s performance. Final notations: Tadek’s and mine. Now getting nervous! Would be great to see some of you here this evening.  

Heath Robinson & vinegar

I’m preparing a piece of video for the performance on thursday evening. Every ten minutes I film for two. However hard I try, I always end up producing some Heath […]

Teaching Oliver to breath

Today I am experimenting with a computerised reading voice to turn some of the highlighted text into sound. Let me introduce Oliver, the name of the voice that I am […]

Finding some structure

It was one of those days: Tadek’s car blew up so he couldn’t make it, so I had to get on on my own. I’ve started to put together some […]

Looping the chalk

This morning Tadek and I have been working on the ‘Score for a Flautist‘, getting our heads around the loop station (on the floor with the green lights) with which […]

Listening in on the Cretaceous

This morning I am listening to the bubbles produced when chalk is dissolved in vinegar (malt vinegar, Sainsburys). Yes, you may well ask! It is the sound of carbon dioxide being […]

Where it all becomes fluid

Today I’m setting up for the show in The Hardwick Gallery. This is the second time in the past few months that I have relocated by studio into a gallery for […]

Talk-performance confirmed

So, yes, I am really happy to be able to confirm that the talk-performance with Tadek is going ahead on Thursday 17th! We have just met in the gallery to […]

(S)core

Part of the ‘score’ I want to produce for Tadek is in the form of a film storyboard. I have been working on that this morning, along with searching for […]

Score for a Flautist

This month I am really looking forward to my short residency and collaboration at the Hardwick Gallery, 7th to 18th March, called Score for a Flautist. I will be working […]