Sun

The full title of the album is Interior Realms Vol. I – Music for being alone, together. It comes from an experience I had as a young school child, on my first trip to London with my theatre class. We arrived early, and in our spare time my best friend and I walked along the South Bank to Tate Modern. Neither of us knew what was waiting there. Walking into the Turbine Hall, we entered Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, a huge sun suspended at the end of the hall, radiating orange light through haze. I remember the warmth of it. Lots of people all having a collective experience, but at the same time enjoying the moment alone. Small groups with their own narratives, children playing, all of it existing together.

Sun is my reflection on this moment and the impression it left on me. Multiple violin motifs loop and phase against each other, providing constant gentle movement, while we bathe in clouds of string chords and let the solo melodies wash over us.

For me, this is very much what music is. Something we get to share and at the same time have completely to ourselves. A way of respecting each other's experience and making space for it, whilst also valuing our own.

Mickael Le Goff and I discussed this sentiment and in response he has created this incredible video resonating with the idea and feeling of the music. You can watch the whole thing now on YouTube.

Video by Mickael Le Goff

Dream Sequence I

The first single from my upcoming album ‘Interior Realms - vol. I’ on Sonic Pieces. The album was recorded in the Großer Wasserspeicher and Grunewaldkirche in Berlin.

Video by Jubal Battisti

Assistant Editor Monica De Alwis

In Conversation with Studio Sodium

In support of the release of Sparks Like Living Mothers, Studio sodium came to Germany and filmed a series of release concerts I did in Art Galleries linked to the cover artwork by Ruth Marten. While they were in Berlin we sat down and this video came from our conversation.

A Process in the Weather of the Heart (EERA rework)

I filled my lungs with the necessary air, and yelled!

For the first single from Simon Goff’s album ‘Vale’, directors Andrew Mark & Ben Evans James created a film in which they adopted a filmic approach that mirrors the track’s composition of classical strings and digital effects. The film brings together analogue 16mm film footage with digital processes and 3D animation.

Director Nic Kane plays with abstract storytelling and striking visuals, to explore Berlin based musician Simon Goff’s Yorkshire roots.

A Process in the Weather of the Heart maps out moments of connection between past and present, former and future self, and distant yet tethered lands.

Transport links, trails and traces etched into the environment, and the subtle influence of the wind, orientate a lone figure across the Yorkshire landscape of Goff’s youth. Their feet connect and lift from the earth beneath them.

A viaduct, a human-made structure embedded in the land to facilitate movement and journey, echoes their rhythm. Flashes of a concrete sound mirror, situated on the East Yorkshire coast, listen across the North Sea to whispers from Germany.

The project, through it's own shifting processes, evolved to focus on a simple yet evocative expression of journeying; a navigation of time, space and creative process.

Featuring Sophie Hutchinson
Director Nic Kane
Producer Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp
Director of Photography Matt Gentleman
First Assistant Camera Aidan Bryan
Movement Director Lizzie Klotz
Costume Grace Nicholas
Production Assistant Josh Doughty
Colourist Matt Gentleman

For the title track of the album Vale, Director Phil Barber created a video exploring the landscapes of Yorkshire which I grew up surrounded by. As part of the research for the album, I travelled back to Yorkshire where we found a World War 1 Sound Mirror embedded in the Yorkshire Countryside. Used as an early warning device to detect incoming aircraft from Germany in the First World War, it had a strange connection for me.

Wooden Islands was one of the first tracks I wrote for the album and marked my discovery of a sound I wanted to explore. This album has marked a process of discovery about making music with my primary instrument the violin. 

For many years my relationship to this instrument was a somewhat turbulent one. The violin is an exquisite instrument, one of precision and perfect balance on such a fine scale, that requires meticulous attention to detail from both the maker and the player alike. It has and continues to fascinate me. 

While I love it so much and have had so much joy from playing it, the pressure that surrounded my study of the instrument caused sometimes crippling stage fright that made me loose control of my bowing arm. No matter how much I practiced, sometimes my arm would shake and I would not be able to keep it on the string. My experience of this at college made for a very isolating experience, studying for hours a day in a room on your own, to then stand on stage in a masterclass and be judged on a performance where you would sometimes not have control. 

In the string class we worked in the pursuit of learning to master this beautiful instrument. We were all together, but simultaneously alone. We were all on our Wooden Islands. 

After moving to Berlin I started to work at Vox-ton studio where I learnt to engineer and was welcomed in to an amazing community of musicians and composers who all work in and around the studio. It has been an eye opening and affirming experience that has contributed to this journey that Vale is a landmark in. I have found that the studio, like the violin is another fascinating instrument that you can loose yourself in.

In support of the single, photographer and film maker Jubal Battisti made a film of me performing and recording the track at the studio. 

Gait

Second video in support of ‘The Bit’ released on Gizeh in 2020.

HUE

(Audio Visual Album)

To accompany the release of my 2016 album HUE, I worked with Sebastian Kite to create a set of videos inspired by the material we made in the installation from which the music was taken.