CURRENT LIVE AND RECORDING PROJECTS - click artwork for links

[since 2001] - Collectress

Debut album, Mondegreen out on Peeler Records spring 2014

Glorious gigs in unlikely locations with the finest improvising ladies around.

Vimeo - Soundcloud - twitter - bandcamp

collectress

[2005 - 2011] - Mary Hampton Cotillion

[2011] Folly - Tea spoon records

'Folly is very English, very unusual and proof that if you want to make art, you just have to ignore debilitating forces and get on with it.' **** - Will Hodgekinson - The Times
*** Voted #7 in fRoots critics poll and #5 in MOJO folk albums 2011 ***

mary hampton

[2011] Honey in The Rock 7" - Rough Trade

The nice folk at Rough Trade really liked this song so did a 7" vinyl run. Check the breakneck video

mary hampton

[2008] My Mother's Children Navigator Records
'mesmerising' **** - The Guardian

listen Song of Wandering Aengus

I've had the pleasure of writing and playing for her first 4 records. I still love it.

mary hampton

[since 2002] - ViV

[2009] Sea Shells Listening

listen tv dinners are easier

'Rather good' - Ed Pinset - Resonance FM

Ongoing quiet improvisations with Al Strachan, Will Miles and Adam Bushell. New album in the offing ...

vole

[since 2011] - Caines and Eldridge

A documentation of wonderful afternoon soon after I first met Ron Caines (of East of Eden). Spirit of Gravity (2015).

birs

[since 2008] - BIRs

listen Live set from Stutter, Melbourne. Dec 2008

Finally did some gigs with Ollie Bown after years of writing about it together. More to follow I hope - when he next graces the northern hemisphere wth his presence.

birs

PAST LIVE PROJECTS AND RECORDING

[2008 - 2009] - The Vessel Project

listen Rod Walks

I was lucky enough to fall in with a great bunch of improvisers during my sojourn in Melbourne. The Vessel Project is a multi performer instrument which incorporates Film/Video into the instrument's structure.
[click image for more info].


[2005 - 2008] >alice and her self-karaoke machines

listenThe beetles ear view

Hands-free audio visual performance environments
Me, my cello and my laptop (and a projector)
[click image for more info and here for old myspace]

fond punctions

[2004] - BHC

listen storyteller

Storyteller single out now on (Malinki records 2004)
available from www.liannehall.com

Lianne wanted to go on tour. with an electric band. so i bought an electric bass.

pico

[2004] Lianne and alice y patatas bravas (Malinki records 2004)

listen five below

available from www.liannehall.com
A lo-fi ep lianne and i wrote and recorded one new year in barcelona (chez boo)

patatas bravas

[2000 - 2004] pthhh

listen Excerpt from a show at the Malborough, Brighton.



now sadly dismembered.

pthhh

[2000-2002] pico

listen all change

available from www.liannehall.com
Pico was many things in many places. I had the honour of playing 'cello in the Lianne-Boo-Justin incantation of Pico doing the full spectrum from filthy ketamin exodus parties under the M1 to the delights of the bbc Maidavale studios for the Great Sir John (rip).

pico

[2003-2004] tundra satellites (microclimate 2004)

listen extract

available from www.tomsrecords
Tundra is Tom de Grundwalds massive post-rock 'vision'. I had the pleasure of playing 'cello (and cornet badly) in the first year of gigs and this first ep.

tundra


SESSION WORK AND COLLABORATION

icarus I tweet the birdy electric (leaf 2003)

listen gnog

available from www.amazon.co.uk
I did a bit of scratchy cell'ing for ollie and sam.
icarus

they came from the stars i saw them
they came from the stars i saw them vs reality ( norman records 2007 )

listen n/a

I made a small drunken late night contribution to horton's master piece back in 2002. its finally made it off his hard drive

tcftsist

clearlake cedars (domino 2003)

listen the mind is evil

available from www.dominorecordco.com
a pthhh guest appearance on "the mind is evil".

cedars

INSTALLATION, VIDEO ETC.

Self Karaoke Pond

I got a bit frustrated with some 'interactive art' which didn't let you do very much. So this piece is an audio installation which makes the visitor create all the samples and then 'remixes' them using a generative system.

example using a harmonica and a comedy horn
selfkaraokepond

Metamorphosis signal from the noise

Collaboration with Heather Barnett during her Research Fellowship in Arts and Sciences. Working with Phillip Minns (Madonna over Yorkshire), composed and produced a multi-channel audio installation from interviews exploring role of creativity, collaboration and experimentation in scientific research.

cedars

Metamorphosis

a short film about

listen extract
Film sound tracks written and produced for same exhibition
Both pieces Exhibited at the Freise Greene Gallery, Brighton Media Centre Oct 2004.



cedars