We all know you as an outstanding composer, I would like to ask you about your art, personally I have noticed it through your Instagram feed, can you tell me how and when did you start?
I’m not sure I can trace it back to one moment. I find photography, especially landscape and architectural photography, elicits very similar underlying expressiveness to music and sound for me. The collecting of field recordings and photographs are naturally complimentary endeavours. There is something fundamentally intoxicating about how both media meddle with your perception of time. They both disconnect you from “real time”. Photography, of course, is more about brief moments when the shutter is open and sound recording is more about longer passages or recording but neither one feels like the “real time” that we experience day-to-day which is a big part of their meditative allure to me.
Is there a connection in your sound and vision?
Absolutely. For the past 5 or 6 years my live performances have been audio-visual. I am kind of fascinated with the history of “visual music” – artists like Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, John/James Whitney, Stan Brakhage, etc. I think there is something incredibly pleasing about the treatment of visuals as an extension of music. At times in counterpoint, at times in sync but ultimately, acting as another dimension to the experience. I approach both sound and image in a very similar fashion and seek a kind of synergy. Naturally, I bring the same “musical eye” to my photography.