2026

Performing with Mariam Rezaei inside Konrad Smolenski’s installation ‘Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More’ at Sacrum Profanum festival, Kraków, 2025. (Photo: Adrianna Kochańska)

Happy new year all!
Having just relocated from London, where I lived for twenty years, to Hastings, it really feels like a new beginning this year. I’m looking forward to getting stuck into projects and collaborations, coming at things from a slightly different (seaside) angle. Among projects active in 2026 will be:

Composite Mashworks
Tullis Rennie and I are putting a lot of energy into developing this duo project, bringing together all sorts of improvised sounds, both acoustic and electronic, with some lo-fi cardboard activated structures following the (neon) thread of And then the next thing you know…

Quartz Sand
Kate Carr and I will be working on the next chapter of our project exploring shifting textures and ‘fossiliferous drift’ with electronics and objects.


Solo practice
My collage/sampler solo project was originally intended to be a pure ‘studio’ project that I worked on behind closed doors, but after three festival performances it’s definitely not that any more! In 2026 I’m planning to knuckle down and make the album, plus continue to develop it live.

Also at Sacrum Profanum 2025 (Photo: Adrianna Kochańska)

Ink-Paper-Sound
I have plans for my micro-press this year, continuing explorations into publishing practices and riso print at London Centre for Book Arts, thinking about how paper experiments interface with improvised music and sound.

Of course, there are many other things potentially going on this year including exciting new projects in the works with collaborators ‘old’ and new. So let’s see what happens….

Arboreal by Sloth Racket pre-orders up! And December gigs…

The new Sloth Racket studio album ARBOREAL is coming out on 1st December and available to pre-order today!


The album was recorded in 2023 at Lightship 95 in London by Giles Barrett then mixed and mastered by Alex Bonney this year. It will be released on the Luminous label as a CD and digital album, along with a limited edition A6 booklet containing the scores from the album with new some riso collage artwork.

For some reason this album took me a while to get finished, so I’m really happy to get it (almost) out the door today. Have a listen to the pre-order track ‘Canopy Riot (At Home In The Leaf Light) and pre-order your physical copies over on the Sloth Racket Bandcamp.

To celebrate the release we’re doing two live dates in December. One south, one north:

  • 5th December in HASTINGS, at the Beacon presented by Two Ship! [buy tickets]
  • 17th December in SHEFFIELD, at The Lescar!

This will round off our very slow, year-long tour celebrating our tenth birthday as a band. Info about the gigs below

Creatures of Tooth live in November

Matthew Grigg has invited Creatures of Tooth to play a set at an afternoon of music he’s organising at Hundred Years Gallery next month. This will be our de facto tape launch event, after our debut recording came out this summer. Join us on 16th November!

Quartz Sand album announced!

I’m super happy to post that the Quartz Sand album Stratigraphy is now available to pre-order from Flaming Pines! Quartz Sand is Kate Carr on electronics and objects, and me on the Lyra-8 synthesiser. Have a listen to some tracks and pre-order your copy over on the label Bandcamp site:

New A7 print project: Raw Materials


New A7 booklets! Following on from the 2023/24 Setlist zine series, Raw Materials is my next project for Ink-Paper-Sound. At London Centre for Book Arts this year I’ve been learning how to use the risograph machine to print my own publications, experimenting with one, two and three-colour print. For Raw Materials I wanted to create something new out of discarded, unfinished things that I found at home and in my studio, and ended up bringing together words from the back of scrap paper, elements from backburner graphic scores that I didn’t finish or use for anything, and offcuts from linocut printmaking that I then scanned to make digital artwork. As with the Setlist zines, when making these I was imagining them as starting points for improvisation, hoping that they could be some kind of raw kernels for other future live work as well as standing alone.

Raw Materials 1 and 2 are on sale now from the Ink-Paper-Sound webshop; read on for info on each one.

Raw Materials 1: Deep-Sea Hunting
Fragments of text extracted from the scrap paper pile, lino-print offcuts dragged into the digital realm, and elements from an unfinished graphic score are mashed together in this three-colour booklet, with new cover artwork (blue variant) created especially for Raw Materials.

Raw Materials 2: Boxes
Another unfinished, parked graphic score is deconstructed into its component parts and presented as a series of unevenly-sized boxes. With unifying new cover artwork (yellow variant) created for the Raw Materials series.

Guesting with Last Dream of the Morning at Cafe Oto

It was an absolute pleasure to be invited to join Last Dream of the Morning for the second night of their residency at Cafe Oto! The gig was totally amazing – what a trio. I took the Lyra-8 and it was a fantastic workout for the synth. Working with it in an improvising ensemble setting is a lot of fun as it pushes my playing to the limit; each time I do it I think the machine comes out with sounds I’ve never heard before. So that’s nice! Here’s hoping this formation plays again…

New video: Composite Mashworks!

Tullis Rennie and I have been working on documentation for our duo project, starting with this video. This improvisation is from a studio session at SET Lewisham in March,when we were trying out the performance mode of the duo before our set at INTRASPECT, University of Surrey. The project now has a name too: Composite Mashworks! More on this coming soon…