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Tomashi Jackson Collaboration
30.04.24
Artist Tomashi Jackson's new exhibition, entitled 'Silent Alarm', responds to histories of police violence in London and LA. I created a new piece of music to accompany the exhibition, which is featured on a behind-the-scenes video hosted by the Pilar Corrias Gallery.
Introducing: The None
14.12.23
My new noise-rock project featuring Kaila Whyte (Blue Ruth), Jim Beck (Cassels) and Chris Francombe (Frauds)
Film Review: 'Isabel' (1968)
26.04.23

Repeatedly bewitched by Geneviève Bujold's performance in Paul Almond's 'Isabel', I was moved to write about it. "I don’t know if Isabel can climb out of the frame and save herself, but I’ll want to watch her try, over and again."

Review: Trail of Dead in Oxford, 2000
30.03.21

My vintage review of ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead at the Zodiac, Oxford, 2000. "Some six songs in you realise that not only is the ship going to hold together, it's going to plough triumphantly intact into the docks and split the city in half."

Young Legionnaire | Lockdown Session #117.08.20


The Noise of Justice
31.07.20

"It’s easy for music executives to reach for the platitudes of the moment without any genuine attempt to reckon with bias and racism. Less easy for such gatekeepers to acknowledge they’ve pioneered the self-same technologies of the surveillance state."

Blade Runner 2049 & the Afterlife of Culture24.07.20

"The past must scream at the audience from the screen, expecting us to whoop along in a performative re-experiencing of what came before. We are dreaming ourselves, and our memories of the great stories and cinematic moments of the bygone are just implants."

Jigsaw Youth
27.04.20

A fundraising effort for shuttered music venues during lockdown. "These spaces have provided opportunities, communities and platforms for all kinds of expression. All of them deserve the chance to survive."

An Anatomy of the Corporate Body
10.04.20

"The ‘corporate body’ is a way to describe so much of how our lives are organised in 2020: our fingertips constantly hovering over the logos of big brands, our choices governed by corporate logic, an increasing sense of the futility of the individual voice."

Drug Life | The Corporate Body
04.11.19
Debut album release by Drug Life
What the Narrative on Tech 'Backlash' Gets Wrong10.10.19

"As long as we are swept along in a vision of technology as a compulsory control on our lifestyle choices - an opt in without a realistic opt-out — then backlash remains the tokenistic moralising that some already see it as."

Panoptica installation
18.05.19
A speculative installation space exploring the future of data and surveillance capitalism
MFA Degree Show - Work for Progress12.04.19

"A musician, an interaction designer, a bike advocate, and a museum lover walk into a design programme: two years later, our work in progress is all work for progress..."

Stopify
15.12.18
An interface intervening in Spotify's passive modes of listening
Drug Life | Upmanship Down
30.11.18
Second single release by Drug Life
Obstructions
23.11.18
A graphic series on the nature of algorithmic control in music streaming
I Am the Product
12.10.18
Exploring the limits of trading intimate information for goods and services
Full Terms
10.09.18
Imagining objects transformed by making explicit the terms and conditions of their use
How Change was Replaced by a Designed Illusion30.06.18

"The great triumph of handheld technology is the lie it conceals. Ever-present and portable, it draws our attention downwards, off-wards, at right-angles to the march of life before us. As long as our heads are bent, we’re captive, placing faith in an impermanent, implied plane of living..."

Drug Life | Paper Tie
17.05.18
First single release by Drug Life
Rules of the Future
30.04.18
A limited edition risographed booklet exploring technology, consent and the future
The Automation of Listening20.02.18

"It’s the hegemony of the algorithm that counterculture should be taking aim at. What is an algorithm if not an updated version of the faceless, unaccountable cultural power that punk took on?"

Escape from Stepford
11.11.17
A speculative escape kit for the wives of Stepford
Can You Top Trump? Card game18.10.17
A card game based on reactionary politicians and personalities
Terror Capitalism
20.03.17

"Terror-capitalism has a gun trained on you, a foot suspended above the accelerator pedal of a truck as you walk by. It’s here to let you know that you’re a target, a potential victim — that you’re unwitting collateral in the combat of ideas going on around you."