2026
Upcoming publication in the “Microtonal Studios Reader”:
“Novelty Cadences: Suspensions as Stepping Stones Toward Complex Microtonal Targets”.
April 10th
Workshop at Hyperchromatic Festival, Goldsmiths University, London.
“Excuses for not using septimal intervals”
Ongoing
Music for the “I Am Foundation” – a supportive environment for neurodiverse individuals and their families.
Ongoing
Music and sound design for the Lamplight Forest game “Pelican Empyrean”:
A roguelike cooking card game where food and magic combine into a fantastical adventure!.
Ongoing
“Þiccett” for recorder soloist and orchestra. 20 minutes.
2025
Participated in the masters program at Microtonal Music Studios, Helsinki.
March
Performance at Myymälä2 gallery Helsinki
“a form of mind control designed to keep people distracted and ambivalent” for flute, Bb clarinet and cello. 7 minutes.
Performance at Myymälä2 gallery Helsinki
“paranoid killer-bots dance the night away” for contrabass solo. 6 minutes.
June
Published music for the Lamplight Forest game “After Light Fades”
August
Performance at Burgh House, London.
“Songs You Don’t Hear” for voice, piano, violin and cello. 12 minutes.
Three settings of poetry and translations by James Greene.
2024
Music and sound design for the Lamplight Forest game
“After Light Fades”
2023
Published and won the Dreamhack “best music composition” prize for the “Joon Shining” soundtrack.
The music for Joon Shining features story-rich instruments such as shell horn, bone clap-sticks, blues-harmonica and dulcitone (an out-of-production tuning-fork piano), and diverse orchestrations to reflect the developing narrative and gameplay. In addition to expressive melodic and harmonic phrases conjured from pure ratio tuning on all instruments, the music evokes the unexpected reanimation of the dodos through the sounds of antique hunting whistles that may have been used to hunt fowl as early as the 17th century, when the dodos were still alive. The sounds of the hunting whistles and a variety of other acoustic but man-made noises are employed throughout the score to engage timbrally with the mythically immense significance of Joon’s un-extinction event.
2022
Music combining orchestral instrumentation and just intonation for the Lamplight Forest game “Joon Shining”.
Script writing in collaboration with Camilla Greene for the Lamplight Forest game “Joon Shining”.
2021
Covid was weird.
Study
2024-2025 microtonality research at Microtonal Studios in Helsinki
2014-2020 music composition PhD, Sydney Conservatorium. Research topic: Harnessing The Musicality of Noise: Formal Grammar in Music Composition.
2009-2010 Master of composition with distinction. Royal Conservatory in the Hague. Research topic: Practical and Conceptual Implementation of the Harmonic Series in Contemporary Music Practice.
2001-2004 Bachelor of Music Composition & Violin. Flinders Street School of Music.
2000-2001 Bachelor of Arts in English literature, drama, history and politics. Flinders University, South Australia.
