Man with Feathers

I like to make music under a variety of guises and false identities. This varies in style from bass heavy textural improv to glitchy techno and discopop. Some of it can be found on this website. Some of it can be bought in shops. Some can be downloaded from the players.

I like to write synths that run on iPhones, turning them into sensor instruments, which I use to improvise with other people (like Robin Hayward and Rhodri Davies), do solo stuff and play in a duo with Atau Tanaka.

I like to run workshops called ‘turn your ithing into a sensor instrument’ – get in touch (manwithfeathers at gmail dot com) if you want to host one.

I like to do collaborations with interesting people: I recently had a great time working with Caroline Bergvall on her Middling English exhibition at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. I’m currently working with Laura Harrington and Kaffe Matthews on ‘Where are the Wild Ones?’, using Max MSP to sonify data about salmon in the River North Tyne. I’m also creating an immersive soundworld for the theatre group Tender Buttons who are doing a production of Susan Sontag’s Alice in Bed.

I like to wander the moors and I like to ride my bike as fast as I possibly can. Except I bent the forks and snapped the front wheel in a misguided late night attempt at giving a friend a ‘backie’.

Releases

Jace Syntax – Jackin’ Around (Socco Chico Mix) (Download / Mutate Records)

Cakeboy – Swamp Thing (Socco Chico Mix) (Download / Mutate Records)

Dextro – Ring Cycle (Socco Chico’s Crushd By Your Love Mix) on the Zero Circle EP (12 Inch Vinyl / 16k Records)

RaM / Mike McHugh Live at Love’s Secret Domain – (Cassette / Entr’acte)

Si Begg vs Slabodovia 8 Bit Orchestra – Brain Activity (Socco Chico Iron Candyfloss Mix) and Brain Activity (Socco Chico Haedphace Mix) (Download / Noodles Recordings)

Ilton JN – Lucid Touch on Clinical Jazz (Download / Clinical Archives)

Ilton JN – The Rats Rain Down (Download / Clinical Archives)

manwithfeathers [at] gmail [dot] com