Projects
New Opera based on the life and work of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, pioneering advocate of preventative medicine and inoculation in England. Part of a 3-year collaboration with Immunologist Professor Paul Klenerman, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
It's the Algorithm
A surrealist response to increasing anxieties about emerging technologies, with new realtime machine listening tool PRiSM Musical Audio Gesture Recogniser (AGR). In an imagined future, the runaway effects of AI combine with advances in nanotechnology and gene modification to produce a truly different generation of children. But whose responsibility is it? And what should be done?
Connected Health Cities (CHC)
#MusicSaysDataSavesLives brought together 5 composers with health researchers in the North of England, with works about new stroke classification tools for paramedics, data flow for family support workers, ambulatory care experiences, patient data readability across different software, and the hub itself.
Dawn, on the Morning After the Storm
Written for and performed by the doctors and researchers who led the pandemic consortium ISARIC4C during COVID-19. Following a series of interviews about their musical history and experience of being at the frontline of pandemic research, Dawn was recorded on smartphones and home recorders, and premiered online.
Thanks for the Memories
A 3-year collaborative project with Oxford University Professor in Immunology Paul Klenerman, involving a schools project, opera, and public programme. Participants and audiences explored the science and history of immunology through creativity, music and play.
Einstein in Oxford
An ongoing collaboration with author Andrew Robinson, Astrophysicist Roger Davies and Particle Physicist Brian Foster. Exploring the legacy of Einstein's research, current science, and his time in Oxford.