NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
2020, Tanz. Tausch, Cologne, DE
2019, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Denmark
2019, Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire
2019, Edinburgh International Science Festival
2019, Edinburgh Art Festival
2019, Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival, Stirlingshire
2019, Camp Elsewhere Festival, South Wales
2019, Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, Glasgow
2019, Listen to the Voice of Fire: Alchemy in Sound Art, Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth
2018, Scoring Noises / Cooper Gallery, Dundee
2018, Fort Process, Newhaven Fort
2018, NAWR / Swansea International Festival, BBC Hall, Swansea
2017, Listen to the Voice of Fire: Alchemy in Sound Art, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
2017, Concurrents #2, Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh
2017, “Pauline and the Matches”, Edinburgh Art Festival, Custom Lane, Edinburgh (audio-visual collaboration with Belinda Gilbert-Scott, Sarah Kenchington and Mark Vernon)
2017, Glasgow Pride, Glasgow Green, Glasgow
2016, “Circle:Cycle”, UNFIX Festival of Performance Art and Ecology, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2015, “Islands”, UNFIX Festival of Performance Art and Ecology, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2012, “High-Slack-Low-Slack-High”,Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Riverside Transport Museum / Clydeport Authority Building, Glasgow (in a piece conceptualised and performed by John Cavanagh, featuring myself and Gayle Brogan)
SOUND DESIGN & LIVE SCORING
2021, Spring is Here, Anahat Theatre / Scottish Refugee Week
2020, Haxan, Govanhill Picture House / Radiophrenia, Glasgow (in collaboration with Heather Andrews)
2020, Intimacy of Strangers, Linda Boļšakova / ISSP, Riga, LV (remote collaboration)
2020, The Seashell and the Clergyman, Cinetopia / Leith Theatre, Edinburgh
2020, Visible Music, Colliding Lines, London
2020, ERSTENS .) oder dimensionen der gemengelage, Tatraum Projekte Schmidt, Cologne
2019, KLÄR, or the Performative-Poetic Search for Schrödinger’s Cat, Tatraum Projekte Schmidt / Summerhall, Edinburgh
2019, Frost Pocket, Edinburgh Art Festival, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2019, ERSTENS .) oder dimensionen der gemengelage, Tatraum Projekte Schmidt, Düsseldorf
2019, Windows to my Words, dir. Lydia Howe
2018, The Faceless Enemy of Me, Sits in the Squares, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
2018, Hablik, dir. Simon Ortega (with Dr. Graeme Wilson)
2017, “Serpent Dialogues” (a sound-poetry collaboration with Juana Adcock), Arab Arts Focus, Summerhall, Edinburgh
FACILITATION
2022-present, Facilitator for workshops on songwriting and collective music-making with people in detention, Hear Me Out, UK-wide
2020-present, Facilitator leading workshops in improvisation and Indonesian gamelan in community contexts, Good Vibrations, UK-wide
2018-present, Facilitator for workshops of experimental music-making for children and adults with additional support needs, Sonic Bothy, Glasgow / Livingston
2015-19, Facilitator for workshops of experimental music-making and sensory immersive environments with adults with additional support needs, including psychiatric issues, dementia and stroke recovery, Artlink Edinburgh & Lothians, Edinburgh / Livingston / Bonnyrigg / Penicuik
2019, Facilitator on workshop of Environmental Singing, Camp Elsewhere, Merthyr Mews, Wales
2018-19, Founder/Lead Facilitator of all-ages Vocal Free Improvisation Group, MAW, Glasgow / Edinburgh
2018-19, Co-facilitator for young people-centred workshops on singing, playing rhythms, learning instruments and songwriting, Canongate Youth, Edinburgh
2018, Lead Facilitator on Making Music from Household Objects, Cooper Gallery / Artangel, Dundee
2018, Lead Facilitator on Singing for Relaxation workshops, St Cecelia’s Hall: Museum of Musical Instruments, Edinburgh
2018, Loop Pedal workshop for Womxn, Rise Up, Quines! Festival, Aberdeen
2018, Lead Music Tutor for 4-week young people-centred project involving songwriting and arranging, harmony-singing, playing instruments, soundtracking short film and performing, Impact Arts, Renfrewshire
RESIDENCIES
2022, Cove Park / The Workroom, Argyll (with Suzi Cunningham, Jen Cunningham and Dylan Read)
2022, Instructions on How to Cry, Anahat Theatre / Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
2020, Easterhouse Conversations, Platform, Glasgow
2019, ERSTENS .) oder dimensionen der gemengelage, Tatraum Projekte Schmidt, Düsseldorf
2019, KLÄR, or the Performative-Poetic Search for Schrödinger’s Cat, Tatraum Projekte Schmidt / Summerhall, Edinburgh
2016, Atelier, University of Edinburgh / ATLAS Arts Isle of Skye
2016, Collide, Collude, Collaborate, SOUND Festival / SPECTRA Festival of Lights, Aberdeen
2015, Shona Projects, Eilean Shona
EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
2019, new composition “Find and Seek” played on lathe cut in situ Settlement Projects, Edinburgh Art Festival / UNKENNY
2018, new composition “Helix Angle” commissioned in response to Great Noises That Fill The Air retrospective exhibition on the work of Bow Gamelan Ensemble, part of Scoring Noise symposium, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
2017, new composition “Listeria Hysteria” – Minerva Scientifica: Scottish Superwomen of Science, Electric Voice Theatre/Napier University, Edinburgh
2016, Dark Matter:Light Cycles, SOUND Festival / SPECTRA Festival of Lights, Aberdeen
2016, Room to Play, Tinderbox Projects / Hidden Door, Edinburgh
2016, performance/new composition – Silo City, Buffalo NY
2015, new composition – “Phosphodendrophobia” The.Dark.Outside FM / Sanctuary, Galloway Forest
2012, performance/new composition – Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, Glasgow
2012, performance/new composition – Busculture, North Glasgow Arts Trail
RADIO
2021, “Phosphodendrophobia”, played on Late Junction, as part of their Dream Season
2019, “Listeria Hysteria”, played on Radiophrenia, a radio art festival broadcast from Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2018, “What Has Hardened Will Never Win”, played on BBC Radio 6 on Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone
2018, Live broadcast performance on Radio 1 Czech
2017, Vocalist, in “Spinning in Stereo” a score for 2 voices by Hanna Tuulikki, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 for Late Junction
2015, Vocalist as ‘The Voice of Granite’ in Maria Fusco’s “Master Rock”, commissioned by ARTANGEL/ BBC Radio 4, performed and broadcast live from Ben Cruachan Hydroelectric Power Station, Argyll
2015, Player, wine glasses & beer bottles, in Daniel Padden’s “Glass Hundreds” for Tectonics/BBC Radio 3, Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow.
RELEASES
2020, “Allsorts of Oddfellows” (as Bell Lungs), digital only
2019, “Wolves Behind Us”, (as Bell Lungs), 8” lathe cut, limited edition of 50, self-release
2018, “Phosphodendrophobia”, (as Bell Lungs) cassette tape, limited edition of 100, self-release
2017, “Mosul Dam”, (as Bell Lungs) split 7” lathe cut, limited edition of 52, released by Sonido Polifonico
SESSION WORK
2018, vocals – Kathy Hinde, for installation “Vocal Resonances”, IN SITU, Magazine Gateway, Leicester
2018, vocals / violin / omnichord / noise box – Free Nelson Mandoomjazz – forthcoming LP release Rare Noise Records
2018, backing vocals – “Home” – Gaze is Ghost, self-release
2017, backing vocals / arrangement – ‘White Birds’ – L.T. Leif, Song By Toad
2017, cello – Now Wakes The Sea, Song By Toad
2017, backing vocals – ‘Clown School’, ‘Oxygen’ Viking Moses / Sam Goodwill, 7-inch single, Song By Toad
2013, backing vocals –‘Wandering Wits’, ‘Holy Company’, ‘You’ve Seen The Last of Me’, ‘She Moved Through the Fair’, ‘Babble’, ‘The Duel’ from “Palomides: Volume 1/2” CD Washington Irving, self-release
2011, backing vocals – ‘Saturation’, ‘Sheaves Gathered in Season’, ‘Swoon’, ‘The Light that Sees’, ‘Winds Pass Through’ from “Eudaimonia” CD/LP Golden Ghost, Ephiysis Records
2010, backing vocals – ‘September is the Month of Death’ Trembling Bells, from “Abandoned Love” CD/LP, Honest Jon’s Records