Frog Fizzles
A participatory “living score” project: frogs become brief, low-pressure performance instructions.
Projects
A selection of long-running and recent projects at the intersection of composition, listening, technology, and neurodivergent experience.
Current and recent
GlossGlide
An exploratory sound project inspired by Percy Grainger: gliding sound, interaction, and accessibility.
Aural Diversity
A research project on hearing difference: archive, network, and advocacy for aural diversity.
Uspud: A New Realisation (2025)
A research-led realisation of Satie’s 'Christian ballet', exploring mosaic form, constraint, and historical listening.
Completed projects
Catalogue de grenouilles (2025)
A fully developed installation proposal (with a working mock-up), exploring frog calls, participation, and accessibility-led design. Commission not taken forward by the museum.
Digital Syzygies (2022)
A quartet of autistic and d/Deaf musicians compose and perform through EEG headsets, treating brainwaves as a living score.
Spectrum Sounds (2021)
Seven projects exploring synaesthesia and autistic listening, created with autistic and d/Deaf musicians.
Spectrum Walks (2020)
Seven colour-directed walks made as a focused exercise in attention, patterning, and autistic perception.
Virtual Vauxhall Gardens (2019)
A VR reconstruction of the Vauxhall rotunda: immersive heritage with sound, image, and even smell.
Diplacusis Piano (2019)
A digital instrument and short pieces modelling diplacusis: hearing two pitches where one is played.
Balance Disorder Spectrum (2018)
An interactive map of balance disorders: symptoms, causes, and lived experience.
The Orchestra: A User’s Manual (2004)
An online orchestration manual created with the Philharmonia Orchestra — still widely used today.
Random Round (2004)
An interactive realisation of Percy Grainger’s 1912 chance-based composition, running in Ruffle (Flash emulator).
Symphony for Cornwall (1999)
A county-wide education project: 30 schools co-created an online composition for the Bournemouth Sinfonietta.
Midi Visualiser (1997)
An early interactive web-based visualiser for musical data, exploring form through motion and pattern.
Looe Island Virtual Tour (1995)
A very early web-era virtual visit, made alongside experiments in online media and Island Symphony.
George W. Welch (1981–89)
A formative post-minimalist ensemble and compositional laboratory: systems, constraint, and dry conceptual wit that still informs my work.
New Impressions of Africa (1992)
My hypertext translation of Cantos I, II and IV of Raymond Roussel's epic poem published in 1932.