Sound designer, recordist, and electronic and electroacoustic music composer and performer.

Recent/Current Projects

STEIM Orientation

I'm spending a week as a guest of STEIM in Amsterdam with Owen Green, Martin Parker and Lauren Hayes from Edinburgh, and Yolande Uriz and Thorbjørn Nyander Poulsen. I'm certainly in the right place for figuring out some ways of incorporating my research into interfaces and electronics into my performance practice! So far we've heard some really interesting stuff from Daniel Schorno, Robert van Heuman, Kristina Andersen, Frank Bald´e, and Takuro Mizuta Lippit amongst others.

Follow the project blog here: STEIM PROJECT BLOG

Dialogues 5 - Inspace, Edinburgh

This is the final piece we performed at Dialogues on 29th January 2010 in Edinburgh. Thanks to Martin Parker for inviting us to perform.
http://www.dialogues-festival.org/

Let's Get Out Of Here! from Sean Williams on Vimeo.

Electronic Skank from Sean Williams on Vimeo.

Friday 29th January, I'm performing with Lauren Hayes, Jules Rawlinson and Owen Green. Live electronics including "Mute Solo" by Jules Rawlinson, "Electronic Skank" - my piece based on the tools and techniques of King Tubby, and two improvised pieces.
Doors open at 8pm.

Here's a teaser. Find out more info on the Dialogues homepage

Hunterland

Here's a link to a contribution I made to a track with Lee Harris and River Styx for the 50th anniversary of William S Burroughs book, Naked Lunch.

Outside The Box

Electronic Skank from Sean Williams on Vimeo.

Voice On Record

Tune in to 104.4 Resonance FM (if you're in London) or resonancefm.com on Tuesdays at 5:30pm to hear my weekly radio show featuring spoken word records from a huge range of people and things.

There have been some problems with getting these updated but I have been assured that they will be soon.
Podcasts.
The Episode 4 show is not actually about Ireland, but is entitled "Thinkers Part 2".

Lee Harris and the Gonzo Collective

Encounters CD

After Mary Rose

Sound design and recording of original music by Dee Isaacs for Magnetic North's production of After Mary Rose, by D. Jones based on Mary Rose by J.M. Barrie. The show is touring from 23rd April to 23rd May.

Music At The Brewhouse - Cabaret Baby

A whistlestop tour of Scotland from April 15-18th DJing with Stephen Deazley's Music At The Brewhouse Band as DJ Chickenhed, doing warm up and interval sets as well as playing with the band.
Read a review.

Nigel Osborne - Rock Music

October 2008 saw the opening of London's newest concert venue: King's Place, new home of the London Sinfonietta. I was lucky enough to be asked by Nigel Osborne to provide the electronic parts to his Rock Music score. This piece was insprired by the Rock Gongs on the shores of Lake Victoria and involved members of the London Sinfonietta as well as Nigel and 5 Ugandan musicians.
Read a review.

Music At The Brewhouse - Rock'n'Roll Swindle

In June 2008 I DJed with Stephen Deazley's Brewhouse Band at the St. Magnus Festival in Orkney, providing a night's entertainment for festival goers and helping out with technical setup for the band.
I also stage managed the Rock'n'Roll Swindle - 5 local bands playing with the Brewhouse Band orchestrated by Stepehn Deazley and David Knotts - as well as performing Martin Parker's live electronics in his absence.

Differences In Demolitions

This project involved working with Nigel Osborne to design the sounds of heavy machinery gradually getting closer to the audience from behind a wall at the beginning of the opera, and then the sounds of the machinery breaking through the wall and the actors appearing. The premiere featured real drills, chainsaws and other machinery but this was impossible to tour with and the musicians found it very hard to incoporate any cues from the temperamental machines into the score.
click for YouTube video

The Lost Happy Endings

I have just finished an open air theatre production in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh, doing sound design for the final scene of a show written by Carol Anne Duffy with music by the wonderful Dee Isaacs. Read review.

We had to deal with gale force winds, horizontal rain and ice on the cables while running a 5.1 system with live input from a string quartet, synths, laptop and witch wuth radio mic, as well as having 80 schoolkids and 40 musicians in the cast! It was enormously ambitious but wonderful.

Monosynth Orchestra

The Monosynth Orchestra's performance of Morton Subotnik's Sidewinder as part of the Soundings Festival at the Reid Hall in Edinburgh was a resounding success. Many thanks to all those who turned up to show their support.

The concert also featured music by James Tenney recorded by Sonic Youth, music by Philippe Arthuys, Aphex Twin, Mike Cullen, Jules Rawlinson, and Morton Subotnik, diffused through the 22 speaker system.
Speakers are situated in front, near, far, above, around and behind the audience to provide an entirelt immersive sound experience. Tickets £5 for each concert, £16 for the whole weekend.

Click here for a pdf of the programme.

Click here to listen to recent performances at the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh at Grind Sight Open Eye.

I recently diffused a new composition at Soundings in Edinburgh, appearing in the same programme as Pete Stollery, Adrian Moore, Françoise Barrière and Robert Dow.

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