Titling new music is often painful. Especially as nearly all of the music I write is instrumental. Even if the title perfectly communicates the nucleus of the idea, it always seems to…

I’ve recently been thinking about how to communicate more effectively with an audience. More specifically, how to convey musical ideas successfully at a distance. It’s true that every venue possesses it’s own unique advantages and…

From the 19th– 24th October I was in Old Street underground station in London for the 6th Empirical pop-up. It’s always a rewarding and tiring week when we build, run and perform in a pop-up shop that we’ve shipped from London to…

Ever since first learning to play, I’ve often been struck by the amount of people, in the music world and otherwise, who put a vast amount of emphasis on ‘talent’ when discussing musical proficiency. People use this word in their own way of course, but…