MUSIC & SOUND
Spontaneous composition
Voice, objects, electronics and light, shaped in the moment rather than fixed in advance. Alongside live improvisation she makes music for film, performance and broadcast, and films and documents the experimental music scene.
Releases
2020 · UNPREDICTABLE SERIES
What Blue
Duo album with Steve Beresford, recorded after the Francis Chagrin Award: spontaneous compositions on keyboards, electronics and objects. Listen →
2018 · UNPREDICTABLE SERIES
Duets with Blanca Regina. Spontaneous Music
Duets with nine experimental musicians, including John Butcher, Leafcutter John, Terry Day and Hyelim Kim. Listen →
UNPREDICTABLE SERIES
Travelling, Untravelling
With Peter Cusack, recorded live at Café OTO. Listen →
2017
Miga
With Leafcutter John: a limited-edition USB release archiving their live audiovisual performances. Listen →
2017
Art of Improvisers
Compilation co-produced with Steve Beresford, focusing on women sound artists. Listen →
Selected performances
2025
Music for Nine Earths
With DFUSE
British Council, New Delhi
2024
Leafcutter John, Elaine Mitchener, Blanca Regina
Unpredictable Series
2024
Solo AV
Plink Plonk · Outlands · Dyaphonique
OUTPOST, Norwich
2024
Abstract Encounters
AV performance
Boundary Condition, London
2024
‘Elsewhere in India’
Murthovic & Thiruda, with Aneek Thapar, Thomas Ridley, Sink, Benedict Taylor, Jordan Smart
Unpredictable Series
2022
Abstract Encounters
AV performance
Watermans Arts, London
2022
Duo with Cath Roberts
BRAK
Brockley, London
2022
‘The word for world is forest’
With Peter Cusack
Unpredictable Series
2020
Piano Toys Music & Noise
Café OTO, London
2019
Duo with Pierre Bouvier Patron
Cruce Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid
2017
Remixing the cinema of Helena Taberna
Live cinema
Centro Cultural de España en México
2017
Alterations Festival
Café OTO, London
2016
The Art of Terry Day
Film and live performance
Café OTO, London
2015
Fathers, a multimedia opera
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2014
LaptopsRus
Vision’R, Paris
2013
Music Hackspace
Barbican, London
2012
Live cinema performance
Maus Hábitos, Porto
2011
Live visuals
RecMadrid
Matadero, Madrid
Film & video
2019
Unpredictable: Conversations with Improvisers
Director. Twelve films on free improvisation in the UK and its international connections, commissioned by Sound & Music for the 50th anniversary of the British Music Collection.
2019
Herethere
Film with Pierre Bouvier Patron, premiered with Jaap Blonk, Beibei Wang, John Edwards, Jack Goldstein and Steve Beresford.
IN PROGRESS
Terry Day documentary
A feature-length portrait of the free improviser, musician and artist Terry Day, following The Art of Terry Day (2016).
VIMEO
Unpredictable Series archive
Around 150 films of concerts, interviews and performances: directing, filming, editing, sound and animation.
Collaborations
Matt Black (Coldcut)
Electronic music and live visuals
Leafcutter John
Miga
Steve Beresford
What Blue · Art of Improvisers · Unpredictable Series
Peter Cusack
Travelling, Untravelling
Laetitia Sadier
ISIDORA
DFuse
Nine Earths
Wade Matthews
Shortcuts
Pierre Bouvier Patron & Manolo Raba
Abstract Encounters: Andanzas
Karel Doing
In Vivo
David Toop · Benedict Taylor · Mandhira de Saram · Matthias Kispert · Cath Roberts
Improvisation, sound and image