I am an established composer, musician and sound artist with both story-telling and exploration at the heart of my practice. I have extensive performance experience and a great passion to inspire others in projects that have ranged from avant-garde jazz cabaret to indie-rock, whimsical psych-folk to Kalevala-inspired prog-rock.
Consistently, I have collaborated with extra-musical art forms, encompassing video, dance, theatre and circus. Stylistically too, I have always revelled in working in a wide range of influences: from acoustic to electronic.
My experience working in therapeutic music (with people with learning disabilities, looked after children and the elderly) as well as my study in counselling and psychotherapy, mean I am well suited to expressing the emotional depth and sensitivity needed for a pantheon of moods and characters. My wide experience with the highly theatrical Giffords Circus means I am well attuned to writing and performing music to tell stories for (and with) children.
In my own vox-popera, The Other Place, I thrived in outsourcing the libretti to members of the public where interviewees formed the basis of the work and their differing voices were honoured in a range of different styles and treatments from cyberpunk to Samuel Beckett.
Currently, I lead The Temple of Shibboleth, a 5-piece musical ensemble of women. Having released and toured our eponymous debut album last year, we are currently working on our second show. Our shows include elements of circus, theatre and multimedia with quirk and humour to explore climate collapse, feminism and magick to honour the planets and their deities and in turn the appliances of housekeeping to bless the sanctity of Home.
In this sense I am adept at defining a conceptual realm and then seeing it through distinctly in all aspects of my work.
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Instrumentalist and collaborator on various avant-garde jazz projects including A Bigger Show , Paintbox Jane and Granite.
Venues included King’s Place, Ronnie Scott’s and the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro, Italy.
Musician, composer, musical direction and sound engineer on various shows 2004-2019.
Despite being just 20 years old, Richard Chappell is already making waves in the dance world, with The Guardian describing him as ‘a choreographer to watch’. This April his dance company will present three works at Exeter Phoenix.
The program of work – IRIS, Burnt Norton, and The Vast Rocks – marks the starting point of Richard’s creative development and choreographic journey. Drawing heavily on the environments and geographical locations that have influenced him, these shows explore aspects of the South West’s landscape, as well as contrasting this with other places that have provided geographical influence.
A comedy spoken word show about gender, the media and not fitting any of the boxes, full of explosive movement, original songs and kickass video projection. Edalia Day is a banjo wielding, poetry slam winning, trans warrior, taking on the world one troll at a time.
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