As a self-employed practitioner & social entrepreneur, I am usually juggling a number of wonderful creative projects and love to be a midwife for others’ creativity too.

So I’m an artist, engineer, teacher and bespoke composer/sound designer including for other artforms like dance, theatre, film and sculpture. It’s all about tuning into what a story needs to transduce the humanity – bringing the power of music and the magic of sound.

Here’s just some examples of what I have been up to recently:

– podcast production and hosting

– Delia Derbyshire Day electronic music education & heritage projects (inc. fundraising & project management)

– working with Brighter Sound, One Education Music and School of Noise

– working with Walk The Plank outdoor theatre company, making soundscapes filled with voices and perspectives of children

– making verbatim poems with writer Kim Wiltshire for Lime Arts – representing NHS workers in a creative way

– working with National Science and Media Museum doing sound art workshops in high schools as part of Bradford City of Culture

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ONGOING PROJECTS

DELIA DERBYSHIRE DAY  – electronic music expert/teacher

I instigated and project manage this electronic music charity. The archive of Delia Derbyshire (electronic music pioneer most famous for her iconic realisation of the original Dr Who theme 1963) arrived in Manchester at the same time I did. I felt someone needed to make a fuss of this gem of electronic music heritage. DD Day produces events, new art and (electronic) music education opportunities championing women & NB artists past, present and future. Delia Derbyshire Day is now set in the cultural calendar as 23 NOVEMBER – the date Delia’s realisation of Ron Grainer’s original Dr Who theme first beamed into British living rooms.

I am often invited to talk about Delia and the history of electronic music in the UK. I also worked as a researcher on Lisa Rovner’s feature film “Sisters with Transistors” about the pioneering women of electronic music, which included Delia & Daphne Oram.

I have presented talks at Synth Fest UK, Birmingham Conservatoire, Sound and Music’s Young Composers Summer School and many more.

SOUND ON SOUND PODCAST  – electronic music podcast host & editor

I enjoy being one of the hosts on the electronic music podcast by Sound On Sound magazine. I get to suggest, interview, record and edit many interesting artists.

Electronic music making friends used to give me their old copies of Sound on Sound magazine when I was laid up and I would absorb the information as a fledgling producer/artist. And now this, it’s a crazy wonderful!

We launched the channel with this interview with Suzanne Ciani who’s a bit of an electronic music and synth legend, and a wonderfully not ego based successful artist.