I am currently undertaking R&D for ‘Neural Materials’ a new commission for Cyborg Soloists. 

NEURAL MATERIALS explores the materiality of neural synthesis through a performance system for sound sculpture, electronics and machine learning. My research will explore potentials for gestural and expressive acoustic interactions with metal AI sculpture and neural synthesis. I’m working with Bela sensor technology from the Augmented Instruments Lab, building a ‘Pepper’ unit to integrate with modular electronics. I’ve been creating a post industrial musique concrete dataset of field recordings (cotton / water / noise)from Quarry Bank Mill machinery, Manchester Canals and City centre noise of Ancoats and Deansgate ‘square neighbourhoods. for ML training.

Cyborg Soloists is a UKRI-funded Future Leaders Fellowship project led by Director and Principal Investigator Dr Zubin Kanga. Hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London, it explores interdisciplinary interactions between music, the other arts and new digital technologies.

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My research will culminate in a live AV performance this September at Testcard.

I’m thrilled to be one of the artists in the Sound Obsessed Sonic Innovation Archive, in collaboration with Refraction Festival and New Art City. We are an international collective of artists, musicians, scientists and creative technologists, and this evolving archive celebrates the journey, milestones, and challenges of sonic innovation.

SLEEPSTATES.NET is showcased as part of this curated online space exhibiting AV works by artists working across generative, creative AI and mixed media. Exploring web3.0 with amazing sonic innovators, coders and scientists. Head over to https://www.soundobsessed.com/ to view works.

The exhibition is touring to the ‘worlds first art’ NFT Biennial in January and February 2023.

Special thanks to PortraitXO for inviting me to be involved ❤️💙❤️💙

On Friday 2nd December 2022, I was thrilled to feature on Afrodeutsche’s The People’s Party show on BBC 6 Music showcasing my debut album SLEEPSTATES and taking on the unmixable challenge (Foals & Daniel Avery.) The feature included a first radio play of album track, Sync Whole and a behind the scenes chat, big thanks to Afrodeutsche for giving my work this platform.

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Delighted to have an article published for the PRiSM blog at RNCM. The piece charts my research and process so far exploring machine learning and musique concrete on my NOVARS residency, University of Manchester in collaboration with PRiSM. Leading up to my first experiment in neural synthesis AURA MACHINE which premiered online as part o f FutureMusic3 in June 2020 Read the article here

Very excited to premiere AURA MACHINE my first sound work using neural synthesis at Future Music 3, Royal Northern College of Music. Taking place online the event will showcase new works from artists in UNSUPERVISED our brand new machine learning for music group between NOVARS and PRiSM.

FUTURE MUSIC 3: Watch back the event and talks here

UNSUPERVISED: Check out our machine learning for music working group page here.

I am beyond thrilled to have been awarded the Oram Award for 2020! The awards are from PRS Foundation and the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop and celebrate innovation in music, sound and related technologies by the next generation of forward thinking women.

Named after Daphne Oram, one of the founding members of the original BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the awards hope to build on her legacy. Daphne worked at the workshop with others including Delia Derbyshire, Glynis Jones, Jenyth Worsley, Maddalena Fagandini and Elizabeth Parker, creating music for the distant future, the distant past and inside the mind. She played a vital role in establishing women at the forefront of innovation, in newly emerging audio technologies, in the UK and around the world.

This really is a such a huge honour for me, as i’m in awe of the female pioneers of the radiophonic workshop, Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire are inspirations for me so it feels amazing to be recognised. Joining the Oram community is wonderful alongside my amazing fellow recipients Loula York, NikNak, Poulomi Desai, Yifeat Ziv and Una Lee I will receive mentoring from tutors and artists at the Radiophonic workshop and the award fund will support me in mixing and mastering my first album … which is in progress!! It really has given me a huge motivational boost in what has been such a difficult year, to keep doing what i’m doing and continue to support and amplify other women in audio. Thanks so much x

Read about the awards further on the Oram Awards website and PRS Foundation

Due to Covid19 restrictions there was no ceremony this year so the winners performed at a special livestream hosted by SonitusLive, just launched for 2021 is an Oram Award youtube channel where you can watch the performances.

AUGUST 2020

First gig since lockdown with my favourite music people at Manchester’s TESTCARD, I collaborated with digital artist Izzy Bolt on our first live performance together at Niamos in Hulme. Also on the socially distanced bill was the fantastic Danny Ruane, with amazing visuals and live stream controlled by Sean Clarke, CHEX and Dede. It felt great to be in a venue again, enjoying the ritual of setting equipment up and down and playing through a system. Was great to finally work with Izzy as we’d been talking about collaborating for what seems like ages, more to come i’m sure. Thanks to Johnny James and Creative Tourist for the event write up too!