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.

Blanca Regina performing live with voice, objects and electronics

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 →

OTOROKU

Shortcuts

With Wade Matthews: voice and electronics alongside his soundscapes. 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 →

SOUNDTRACK

In Vivo

Soundtrack for the film by Karel Doing. 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