I am a artist, writer and editor, coder and composer living in Berlin. I produce work in a wide variety of styles, disciplines and genres.
I hold a PhD in music composition from the University of Huddersfield. I also hold a Masters and Bachelor degree in Music Composition from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and another Bachelor degree in Music from the University of Huddersfield.
My music has been performed by a host of ensembles, and at festivals and concert series throughout the UK, Europe and US.
In 2012, I founded the independent research organization, The Institute of Applied Cultural Economics and Sociology and its subsidiary, The New Fordist Organization, a collective of composers, visual artists and performance artists, set up to apply the principles of mass-production, industrialization and mechanized creation, pioneered by the American industrialist Henry Ford, to the visual and performing arts. The New Fordist Organization has exhibited works in group shows throughout the Netherlands, as well as their own two-month "New Fordist Manifesto" residency and exhibition at GEMAK, The Hague, NL (2013) and its follow-up exhibition at Stroom, The Hague ("Selections from The New Fordist Manifesto", 2015).
In 2016, I was artist-in-residence with iii (instrument inventors initiative). This residency was used to create a site-specific installation with the artists Ana Smaragda Lemnaru, Gregorz Marciniak, Maya Verlaak and Adam Basanta, for the experimental Zandmotor sea defence outside of The Hague. This work, "Digging Piece", was exhibited at night at the "Sand Songs" event on the Zandmotor beach in June 2016.
Between 2010-2012, as a member of the experimental music and performance art collective Acid Police Noise Ensemble, I devised and performed in a number of exhibitions and concerts.
Over the last few years, technical interests have moved to the forefront of my practice. As a coder, I have designed a wide variety of websites and some software and plug-ins. In 2017, I publically released a music composition software tool called "Dodecafinder", which uses a genetic algorithm to speedily find optimal twelve-tone rows that fit a given set of user-selected criteria. In 2018, I completed the Northcoder's software development course. In 2019, I released an javascript library called historical-permutations which collects together historical permutation algorithms from 1956 to the present day.
The rest of my life is shrouded in mystery.