the counterfactual mixtape

This mixtape is woven together from music sketches, recordings of quiet mornings in Bristol parks, sheltering from the rain under bridges in Ghent, being directed by the whistles of Greek traffic police, eye examinations, and anti-fascist protests. There are also some text fragments contributed by my long term collaborator Tineke De Meyer , who you may heard on Radio 3’s Late Junction recently as...

The mixtapes took an unplanned summer holiday, so this one has three sections to make up for that. Normal service should resume shortly. This one is quite intense and fairly noisy in places, but this seems apt for the material it’s built from.. [ rough content guide ] 0'00s - 4'10s concrete triggers 4'10s - 9'20s nighttime strata 9'20s - 14'10s concrete triggers (cont.) 14'10s - 20'40s meat market...

As the exhibition of my audio augmented reality piece Only Expansion in Bristol closes next week this mixtape is collaged from field recordings and music extracts that were created in 2018/19 as part of the making process. To create Only Expansion I spent time touring locations displaying very tangible signifiers of climate change - rising sea levels, collapsing coastlines, wildfires and more. Thi...

A more melancholic drift than usual, maybe a dream of a time when all the venues are closed and the festivals are bankrupt and we rely solely on the buskers. This mixtape includes multiple ‘duets’ created by combining captured fragments of buskers and street music performances (including some Holy Week processions as it seemed timely). I enjoy the idea that these performances were greatly separate...

This month’s mixtape is now online. Around the back of Temple Meads station in Bristol there are rows of newly built office and apartment blocks. Whether it was unpredictable or badly planned for, the shape and materials of these buildings seems to be responsible for incredibly loud and intense whistling tones that occur whenever the wind picks up a bit. This mixtape features a set of recordings o...

This first mixtape is an expulsion, a chance to clear both my mind and my hard drive. It’s a collage of small music sketches and field recordings, both from my everyday life and more intentional expeditions. There’s processed sounds here too, recordings that I’ve tried to x-ray, excavate or drill inside to find out what they’re made of. I’m weaving them together in a way that imagines my past insi...