N.B. This website is currently being used as a portfolio.
This is something of a bio to try and pull everything together.
I have always made music. Or at least since I was 4. I started with the violin and when we moved to Oxford joined New College Choir. As choristers we sang five services a week, and I think if you start making music that young and that often it probably never leaves you. That’s where Palestrina and Bach and Howells and Poulenc and Handel and the rest got under my skin and stayed there. My teenage years introduced me to Shostakovich and when you’re an angsty teenager, Shostakovich is pretty much all you need. I thought I would become a violinist. By my late teens, however, I didn’t want music as a career. I went to university and studied English Literature and got my mind blown by Critical Theory, particularly Queer Theory, which is what I co-presented my thesis on (a friend and I were allowed to work on a sprawling Honor’s thesis together that explored Queer Affect in our hometown). The writers that spring to mind from that time are Sedgwick, White, Butler, D&G, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Berlant, Derrida, Foucault. Then I moved to Berlin and started making music again. A little at first and then much, much more. This is where my disparate fields of interest combined for the first time, and I made my first record, “Homotopia,” a snapshot of gay/queer life as I saw it lived around me. None of that would have been possible without the extraordinary musicians I got to work with on that and so many other projects. With their help the record was made and finished, and the record did well. And then the pandemic came and upended everything. I started my second record, “Goodbye,” but to make ends meet started working as a copy editor on the side. And I got lucky again. The work I was reading concerned the governance of emerging technologies, and I discovered in it more systemic approaches to systemic problems, a perfect complement I felt to the more personal work I felt I was doing in music. I released my second record and simultaneously became a researcher and writer and began co-authoring and publishing papers. And that brings us to now. To see the work in both fields, you can navigate to “Music” and “Research” at the top of this page. For the complete records, “Homotopia,” “Goodbye,” and the cover EP “NDW,” you can go to the “Home” page and you will find them there.