Composite Mashworks: Temporary Art Habitat at Summer Bummer, Antwerp!

It’s happening…Composite Mashworks are heading to Summer Bummer Festival in Antwerp this weekend, 28/29 August! This will be the first iteration of our Temporary Art Habitat installation, where Tullis and I will mash together improvised music and sound with lo-fi neon cardboard artwork and contributions (visual and sonic) from festival-goers. Cannot WAIT! There will be a comprehensive write-up to be done when we get back, as this project combines pretty much every area of my practice in a new and totally brain-melting way…

To mark the occasion we’ve also created some new music in the studio, which you can listen to here, and buy on limited-edition cassette – only available at Summer Bummer and XMTR festivals!

The whole thing promises to be a total blast. I will report back on the other side – and/or see you out there!(Above is a new t-shirt design I’m pretty happy with…shirts also available in a VERY limited edition way, basically only at Summer Bummer, most likely…tbc…)

Guesting with Last Dream Of The Morning

Quick post just to share this great photo by John Trice, of the gig on Tuesday 7th July at Cafe Oto. I was so happy to be invited back to guest with Last Dream Of The Morning – John Butcher, John Edwards, and Mark Sanders – for the second night of their 2026 Cafe Oto residency. It was an absolute blast playing with the trio again! What an honour to be invited for the second time too.

For this gig I decided to try a completely new setup, pairing a Korg Volca Bass with the Fieldtone Weaver. This worked great! A super fun, super agile and flexible combination.

New video: Composite Mashworks in the shed


After a great set at Two Ship Festival in June, work continues behind the scenes with Composite Mashworks – including a push to document our practice with videos! Above is the latest finished offering on our new Vimeo page: an aerial view of a studio session in Tullis’ shed studio, Hastings, in May.

Mashworks is active later in the summer, heading to Summer Bummer festival in Antwerp for our first Temporary Art Habitat installation plus a live set. We then head straight to XMTR Festival in St Leonard’s to do the same again! More on this soon, plus another video in the pipeline…

Also under development is our new online home compositemashworks.org.

Composite Mashworks at Two Ship Festival

Coming up on Saturday 6th June is the fourth annual edition of Two Ship Festival in my new home town of Hastings! Last year I had a brilliant day attending the festival as a punter, but this year I’m looking forward to being there as an artist, playing a Composite Mashworks set with Tullis Rennie. Fresh from our trip to Belfast, we’ll be heading further down the mashworks rabbit hole and seeing where our huge table of soundmaking stuff takes us…

Check out the poster below for the rest of the excellent lineup. It will be a super nice day, and Londoners, you can even get home at the end of the night (speaking from experience)!

Tickets are on sale over here.

Composite Mashworks at Sonorities Festival, Belfast

Tullis Rennie and I have been working behind the scenes on our duo project Composite Mashworks, which has a few outings coming up this year. First up is Sonorities Festival in Belfast! We’re excited to be a part of their Handmade Music programme, happening on Friday 17th April at Accidental Theatre. The night is packed full of sets by all sorts of brilliant artists so it promises to be a super fun one.

In preparation for this I’m creating a whole new set of the cardboard structures that form part of our improvisation. Initially taking the form of repurposed fragments (see image above) from my 2021 hcmf// piece And then the next thing you know, these are starting to morph into their own thing as the Composite Mashworks project develops. Can’t wait to take them out next month!

 

Duo set with Dee Byrne

Very happy to be part of this bill at the Horse Hospital, London on 7th April for Taupe’s album launch! Dee Byrne and I will be exploring new electronic territories with our ongoing duo project. Tickets and info over on the venue website.

The next night, Dee will perform with the City St George’s Experimental Ensemble at our end-of-year concert! This will be a free event in the Performance Space at the university – I’ll add more details here soon…

Earconnector label launch

I’m very happy to be a part of the launch this Friday 30th January of Alex Bonney’s new label, Earconnector! The label is an outlet for Alex’s collaborations with all sorts of artists from the improvised music and jazz worlds, including me; our duo recording Owl Party Submersible is part of this first batch of releases.


Alex and I will play a duo set at the launch, which is happening at Hundred Years Gallery in Hoxton. Also on the bill are sets from Tom Challenger with Will Glaser, and Alex with Tom Challenger. Join us! Info on the HYG website.

As well as appearing on one of the releases I’m doing the graphic design for the label, working with some great photographs by Alex and original artwork by Tom Challenger, as well as doing the artwork for Owl Party Submersible. There are two cassettes as part of the first batch, so I’ve  designed and printed sleeves for those as part of my work at London Centre for Book Arts. Alongside the covers, I’ve produced inlays, cassette shell labels, the Bandcamp header, a logo variant and the launch gig poster (above). I’m really pleased with how everything looks and have enjoyed the process a lot! More releases coming soon…

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….