Latest writings
Here you’ll find links to my latest musings, media posts, musical adventures and so on. Recent pieces have been for EM Guide, Kaput Magazine and the Monheim Triennale festival.

All hail the musical bohemians
Link to my full round-up of 2025’s Monheim Triennale – just published on Kaput-Mag.com

Radio show: what went down at Monheim Triennale 2025
Self and Vivian Host co-helmed a Radio Rakete show at Monheim Triennale 2025…

Behind, around and somehow before the notes
Germany’s eclectic and inspiring Monheim Triennale 2025 is underway, bringing together a wide range of contemporary musicians to a little bend in the river Rhine…

YouMeBumBumTrain: six months in the world’s biggest doll’s house
What exactly is it like to be part of a show that everyone wants to experience but no one can talk about? 🧐

Library music: soundtracks to a strange if familiar world
What it’s like to make music whose exact purposes remain to be determined… yes, library music! 🎶

Too slow to disco… the tempo of seduction?*
Latest volume in the Too Slow to Disco series - Sunset Manifesto Vol 2 – drops summer 2025! I’ve been writing the sleeve notes for the series for the last decade…

Darius Jones - interview for Monheim Triennale ’25
I interviewed US composer and saxophonist Darius Jones for Monheim Triennale’s ‘Papers’ publication. A fascinating insight into his development as a musician and both his process and inspiration.

Meet generation ‘generative’
Are the robots really coming for your job? Is the economy really becoming a push-button affair? An investigation of the state of generative AI hype and hope, summer 2024.

Surprise, then a sense of liberation - Monheim Festival 2024
Reflections on Monheim Festival 2024 - The Prequel. A wild week of musical experimentation and collaboration in a kink in the Rhine…

Everything is, as it turns out, romantic
In a world where pop stars increasingly seem to want safety, aristocracy or status, here comes BRAT.

If the champagne could speak
Back in 2022, I had to endure the unfathomable horror of writing a poem about champagne for the Savoy’s Christmas campaign…