Works
2026
Saxophone and live electronics, for David Zucchi. Commissioned by the Vaughan Williams Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation, and The Marchus Trust. Performance at Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield.
2026
Earth of Shine and Dark Mottling
Three microtonal bass viols, for Liam Byrne. Concert work, recording, and VR film.
2021-2024
Earth of the Slumbering and Liquid Trees
Sampled historical organs and keyboards, for Zubin Kanga. Commissioned by UKRI. Performances at The National Gallery, London, and Het Orgelpark, Amsterdam.
2023
A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time
Album, film, and app for water-powered historical instruments, rebec, bass viol, nyckelharpa, and lap steel guitar. Commissioned by PRS Foundation and Jerwood Arts Composers’ Fund Award, Arts Council England, and The Marchus Trust.
2021
Quartet for a Landscape
Baroque strings and harpsichord, for Nordic Affect. Mengi, Reykjavik.
2021
Accrete
Multitracked rebec and two sopranos, with Mary Duggan Architects and Ella Taylor. London Festival of Architecture.
2020
Filmed installation for tape machines, analogue synthesisers, and laptop. The National Gallery.
2020
British Baroque: Power & Illusion
Bass viol, baryton, analogue synthesisers, and live electronics. Tate Britain.
2019
Victoria: Woman & Crown
Multichannel installation soundtrack. Kensington Palace.
2018
After Violence
Music-theatre for analogue synthesisers, lute, soprano, and drag queen. Sutton House, with the Royal Academy of Arts, Dulwich Picture Gallery, and the National Trust.
2018
Salvage
Aria for countertenor and piano, text by Jaqueline Saphra. National Opera Studio.
2017
Five Pop Songs for Orchestra
Arrangements for period orchestra. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Kensington Palace.
2017
Silvertown
Choir, for Musarc, text by Annie Freud. London Festival of Architecture.
2017
Sun
Three voices, for Juice Vocal Ensemble, text by Annie Freud. Tate Modern and BBC Radio 3.
2016
Body
Bass viol and electronics with dance, for Liam Byrne and Rambert. Wilderness Festival.
Recordings
2023
A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time (Birmingham Record Company/NMC)
Benjamin Tassie, Rebecca Lee, and Rob Bentall
2018
Sun (Resonus Classics)
Juice Vocal Ensemble
Writing
2027
From Monochord to Mp3: Microtonality, Studio-mediated Bass Viol Performance, and Multimedia Practice as Tools for Re-embodied Musical Experience
Article. Journal for Artistic Research. In preparation.
2027
Augmented Organs, Cyborg Soloists: The Hyperorgan and Re-sacralised Sociality in Earth of the Slumbering and Liquid Trees
Article, with Zubin Kanga. Contemporary Music Review. Forthcoming.
2024
Renaissance Synthesisers: New Frameworks for Composition and Performance with Early Music Instruments
PhD thesis. Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
2021
Post-HIP: New Music for Old Instruments in the Twenty-First Century
Article. Tempo 75 (297).
Research
2027-2029
Sonic Heritage and Environmental Change on England’s East Coast, 1718–present
Research and Innovation Associate, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project.
2025-2026
Resonant Archaeologies
Project Lead, with Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, and Liam Byrne.
2024-2025
The Augmented Harpsichord
Research Residency, Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
2021-2024
Cyborg Soloists
Research Contributor, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Talks
2026
Closing remarks
Organ Symposium Orgelpark 2026. Het Orgelpark, Amsterdam.
2026
Being a Composer Today
University of Sheffield.
2025
Composing the Landscape in the Twenty-first Century
With L. Bowler and C. Jones. North American British Music Studies Association.
2025
Microtonal Cornett and Live Electronics
With Jamie Savan. EPARM, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
2024
A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time as Case Study for Historically-Informed Ecological Sound-art
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
2024
Intimate Listening: Nature, Place, and Music in A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time
RMA Music and/as Process, University of Glasgow.
2024
Approaching an Understanding of Historically-Informed Ecological Sound-Art
EPARM, Academy of Music, Ljubljana.
2023
Augmenting Historical Organs
Music Ex Machina, Royal Holloway, University of London.
2022
Water-Powered Historical Instruments as Ecological Intervention
With Sam Underwood. Music Since 1900, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
2022
Noticing a Landscape: Historical Instruments, Ecology, and Digital Media
EPARM, Royal Academy of Music.
2019
Sixty Years of Electronic Music: Female Pioneers and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Panel chair, V&A Museum.
Radio & curating
2024-2026
Music in the Round
Sheffield Programme Manager.
2018-2025
Classical Remix
Founder and Artistic Director.
Awards
2026
Arts Council England R&D Grant
For Ecosystems of Sound.
2026
Vaughan Williams Foundation
For O Suns—O Grass of Graves.
2026
Hinrichsen Foundation
For O Suns—O Grass of Graves.
2026
The Marchus Trust
For O Suns—O Grass of Graves.
2025
BCU Small Grant Award
For Earth of Shine and Dark Mottling.
2024
Ivor Novello Award
Shortlisted for Best Sound Art, for A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time.
2023
Arts Council England
For A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time.
2023
The Marchus Trust
For A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time.
2021
PRS Foundation and Jerwood Arts
Composers’ Fund Award.
2020-2024
UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council
Studentship, Midlands4Cities.
2020
Arts Council England
Developing Your Creative Practice.
2020
Jerwood Arts
Bursary.
2018
Arts Foundation Award
Shortlisted.
2018
Sound and Music
Composer-Curator Award.