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album cover for Loess - three coloured painted streaks running diagonally across the square cover

loess (2022) - new

Solo shakuhachi and electronics, released on Slow Tone Collages, 24 October 2022. Limited edition of 50 copies

a pencil sketch of Abney Park Chapel against a mostly blank background

abney park bells (2021)

Single - recorded at Abney Park Chapel in June 2021 with the support of Abney Park Trust, solo shakuhachi and electronics

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Album cover for umami-music - white background, a few black ink blobs, and a vinyl label reading umami-music across the middle

umami-music (2016)

Improvisations with Chris Bartholomew (live electronics) and Amanda Kauranne (voice, karelian stones). 5 copies only

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thumbnail of the score for the composition play, lots of words packed tightly on a page

play this piece (2020)

text score

thumbnail of the score for the composition Visions of Japan

Visions of Japan (2017)

for shakuhachi and string quartet

thumbnail of the score for the composition Les Etoiles Sont Belles

les étoiles sont belles (2011)

for 8-part choir

model5 (2011)

for guitar and electronics

thumbnail of the score for the composition for nine piccolos

for nine piccolos (2010)

for 9 piccolos

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Rewilding music: Improvisation, wilderness, and the global musician (2016)
master's thesis exploring the possibilities of wilderness in music education, Sibelius Academy Global Music Master's

umami-music (2015)
collection of poems, quotes, journal entries accompanying umami-music EP

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poem.a (2016)
an anthology of poetry celebrating the Arctic with works by 29 authors in five languages, commissioned as part of artArctica 2017 festival

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black holes of the mind (2013)
performance writing for Hack the Barbican, performed by Matthew Lee Knowles

looking back (2012)
self-published poetry collection

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Dissertation on Notation (2011)
Exploring the relevance of developments in graphic notation in the 1950s and 60s in today's music, Guildhall School of Music & Drama

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