New release.
Rubber Band Music
Flaming Pines (CD/digital)
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bright lines stretched thin,
spring back and creak,
little slingshot.
a temporary bundle.
these desk-bound daydreams,
of rubber trees and sap.
let's snap and break.
Experiments with building and playing rubber-band noise boxes.
Upcoming gigs
On a break until May as travelling to Australia. More updates in April.
New release.
Organelles - with Matt Atkins - Out Jan 24, 2025
Flaming Pines (CD/digital)
New release with Matt Atkins.
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What goes on inside a cell? What might it sound like?
Inspired by tiny processes and interactions Organelles presents a sonic imaginary of intracellular operations.
Cells are busy: folding proteins, exchanging gases, creating energy, growing, dividing, mutating and communicating. Likened to minute factories or warehouses, organelles are the entities which perform the specialised tasks which enable cellular life.
So often explored visually, this album offers one version of what the aural life of these tiny, fantastically-shaped organelles might sound like.
Their ongoing and sporadic processes, small rhythms and exchanges and the everyday and cataclysmic events and encounters that might unfold on this smallest of scales.
With both Atkins and Carr's practices rooted in the amplification and looping of small objects, instruments and gestures, the pair came to the idea of Organelles via the process of improvisation itself.
In the encounter between Atkins' and Carr's iterations and conglomerations of small vibrating objects, Organelles emerged as a collection of spluttering rhythms, creaks, rustles, strikes and chimes.
A miniature world of speculative microsound which lurches between spiky textures, wonky rhythms, static, and the occasional off kilter melody.
New release.
Fatbergs - Rubbish Music
Persistence of Sound (CD/digital)
My duo with Iain Chambers Rubbish Music has a new album out October 18!
As we go about our daily lives, malodorous monsters are constructing themselves from our discarded detritus beneath the streets of our cities.
Built from wet wipes, nappies, food waste, fats and oils, fatbergs haunt us as a nightmarish return of the soiled, rejected and rotten.
Once these behemoths get a foothold in our sewers, they silently grow and spread, alerting us to their malignant presence via sewage overflows and blockages.
On Fatbergs, Rubbish Music take the stinking and roiling matter of fatbergs as their starting point. Across five compositions the duo turns to sound to examine the complex and unpredictable encounters which generate these gigantic conglomerations.
In this contemporary anti-fairytale fatbergs exist as trolls of our pipelines, amplifying a version of waste itself as an active presence. In this story flushing things away is not an ending, but a new beginning
New release.
Midsummer, London
Persistence of Sound (CD/digital)
“artful and disorienting” — Mojo
“abstract, unpredictable and weirdly beautiful” — The Quietus.
“moving and meditative… plays around with notions of nostalgia, hauntology, the strangeness of place” — Klof Magazine
Midsummer, London was composed with recordings taken on the Summer Solstice June 21, 2023, as I attempted to journey from one side of the city to the other along the Thames on this longest of days. The journey began in Loughborough Junction with stops at Clapham Junction, Staines, Shepperton, Hampton, Twickenham, Ravenscourt Park, Blackfriars, Deptford, Woolwich Dockyard and Slade Green.”
Kate Carr, 2024
This work is one continuous piece, with named sections.
New release.
A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds
Room 40 (CD/digital)
All the birds I never recorded, and some I did.
Re-imagined. Stretched and stuttering, glitching and morphing, swirling and sputtering.
Artifact and performance, digital bits all.
I imagine them swooping and calling in these scaffolds of sound I have made for them.
Gleaming amid technicolour jungles. Alive, unassailable; in a world we haven't ruined.
In a field recording I never made.
Usually concealed in dense foliage.
From A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds out Nov 17 via the wonderful Room 40.