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Hello Into the ninth month of the year already and my what a busy one this has been. August is typically the month for much of Europe to slow down…

So I am writing this newsletter on a train journey, which is often some of the finest times to sit and contemplate, write and think, as the countryside slips past…

Hello It is strange times indeed here in the UK. I rarely comment on political matters in a public fashion but this recent turn of events in the elections has…

Hello Another year older now and perhaps just a little wiser, but I’ll leave that for others to decide. I’m just freshly returned from Music Tech Fest Berlin where I…

Hello So May is upon us and we are one step closer to summer here, though as present it feels as if we are experiencing all four seasons in just…

Hello April is here, a month that the poet T.S. Eliot called the ‘cruellest month,’ but hopefully won’t be a painful as that. I spent some valuable time over in…

Hello Now February may be the shortest month of the year but that doesn’t seem to have made it any less packed with joyful explorations. Scanni, my official release with…

Hello Into the shortest month of the year but one that seems set to be already extraordinarily busy and exciting so let’s dig in immediately. The highlight for February is…

Hello Welcome to another new beginning, 2016, and many more adventures, surprises and naturally a few challenges ahead. December closed the year in a much busier fashion than usual, with…

Hello The last month has been spent largely in the company of builders, roofers, plumbers, electricians, scaffolders and others.  The very idea of silence has long since been erased, at…

Hello The nights are most certainly darker here now and scaffolding embraces the Scanner Factory as a new roof is installed to replace the 125-year-old one that currently covers us…

Hello Sunny greetings from the Scanner Factory, where pipes are being soldered and solar systems investigated towards a self-sustaining building. The joys of creative domesticity. Life often feels rather like…

Hello Still settling into the Scanner Factory at present and still busily engaged in the process of trying to find everything, whilst digitising my archive each day, and fresh discoveries…

Hello So I’m now writing this in the new Scanner World Headquarters. So many levels of compromise always accompany living in a city in terms of light and space, so…

Hello Bonjour Whilst the city of Paris basks in temperatures approaching 40 degrees, that’s over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, I am sitting in the theatre of the Pompidou Centre in Paris,…

Hello So my birthday passed with a gentle visit down the Thames River in London to visit Strawberry Hill House, the incredible gothic fantasy house disguised as a castle, built…

Hello So I’m just setting off to Amsterdam in The Netherlands to make last minute adjustments to the score for Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe which premieres…

Hello Back to health here and now battling with deadlines rather than flu, so that’s much preferable. It’s astonishing these days too how few hours we seem to have in…

Hello Nursing a rather unpleasant head cold at the moment that led to losing my voice and now resembling a prehistoric Tom Waits, but a short holiday in Andalusia was…

Hello Welcome to February, the shortest month and typically one when it seems that most things need to be done! January began with the world premiere of two new works…

Hello Snow has arrived in full splendour here in many areas of Europe and the glorious white landscape is something to behold. Apparently 2015 has been designated the International Year…

Hello Still waiting for the festive spirit to arrive at Scanner HQ so here’s a little update on recent activities to catch you up on what’s been going on. We…

Hello So the good news is that if you are reading this you made it safely through Halloween and as I was saying to the devil just last night, it’s…

Hello So Bridging the World finally opened to the world at the Museum of London Docklands in September and proved to be a great success for visitors, despite the obligatory…

Hello Seemingly as quickly as it arrived, summer slipped away and it’s almost autumnal already, and I have just returned from the chilly Nykøbing Mors on the Danish island of…

Hello Summer finally arrived and with it an extraordinary amount of projects and adventures so it’s directly into the news. My new sound installation Bridging the World will launch on…

CALL OUT FOR YOUR HELP Scanner Sound Installation at The Museum of London Docklands What For? I intend to create an immersive sound installation where the spectator walks through a…

Hello So May began in Bellaria in Italy for the film festival, in a location famed for its golden sandy beaches and resplendent coast line but unfortunately the storms arrived…

Hello As the rains fall and we all grow increasingly bewildered as to which season it might even be anymore it’s time to catch up on a month past and…