Author: actionmandy

(the above track is actually Contact Physique, not Cold Eye as labelled – oops!!)

‘Luthier Levitate’ from my recently released ‘Ergot in the Wine’ was broadcast on WMFU in New Jersey – awesome to have some airplay across the pond, esp on this legendary radio show :-))

1st Sept 2019 – performing a 25m set at Noiseberg in Berlin – location Oppelner Straße 12, closest U-Bahn is Schlesisches Tor. Very excited to be playing a gig in Berlin for the first time 🙂

Come down to the Barbican Centre Life Rewired Hub (Lvl G, next to Barbican Kitchen). on Wed 19th June 2019  – I’ll be talking with Nick Luscombe about conceptual and compositional aspects of my track ‘Rahere’, followed by a Q&A. Part of the Musicity x Culture Mile initiative.

Just got back from the CAMP residency Modern Composition with Gavin Bryars. A truly sublime experience located in an old village house, around 1200m high in the awesome snow-capped tree-lined mountains of the French Pyrenees. I composed a piece called ‘Metal Water Wood‘ by percussive tapping and bowing with a double bass bow on various found objects in the garden and outbuildings, such as a hub cab, metal gate, rusty wire, fuel tank and so forth. I combined selected fragments with field recordings from the mountain stream and L’Eglise. Sounds were recorded using a combo of contact, hydrophonic and condenser mics. The piece has a distinctly gamelan-esque vibe to it, and some listeners also compared it to Delia Derbyshire’s and Cage’s work, which was nice. Hoping it will find its way onto a CAMP release in due course – watch this space.