PRESS!

Read this lovely feature by Brad Rose for the fantastic Foxy Digitalis, and have a listen to a chat I had with Tina Edwards here - her last show on Soho Radio!

Esperando a Florian out now!

SWIMS presents the disruptive dream-team of Kit Records founder Richard Greenan, Buenos Aires based cello experimentalist Violeta Garcia, and South African violinist and composer Galina Juritz.

"Esperando a Florian" is the result of Violeta's London residency in 2022. Recorded in one take, and with a simple setup of violin, cello, bass guitar and analogue synths; the music is a tender conversation between three voices, pushing and pulling at the edges of dialogue, hesitance and reflection.

Bowscapes Project 2

If you haven’t yet listened to the Bowscapes Project 2 compilation in memory of Jürgen Bräuninger find it here. My piece in tandem explores how the bow can be manipulated into disparate threads which travel alongside each other, moving in and out of context to their surroundings. I use various recordings made by Cara Stacey in 2014 and 2017 on the umrhubhe and umqangi bows.

'Strength'

Check out my latest sound job for the lovely animator Helena Kampen
Funded by Adobe Creative residency.

Watch Strength here


LIKE THE GRASS ATELIER NOW LIVE

Like the Grass Atelier is a collaborative online ‘open studio’ shared by a quartet from South Africa, Switzerland and Germany. The Like the Grass ensemble consists of guitarist Beat Keller, violinist Galina Juritz, harpist Antonia Ravens, and pianist and musical bow player Cara Stacey. As Covid-19 has prevented the group from meeting up and performing together in the past year, Like the Grass Atelier serves as a digital tour through which these improviser-producer-composers create music together and for each other, from their respective cities. Each week (for four weeks in May and June 2021), a new piece of music and accompanying film will be released continuing their exploration of place, musical process, chance, and structure. 'Part One: Process (with a tip of the hat to Brian Eno)' explores the interior world of making: How do ideas germinate? How do we make decisions about sound? How do these sounds find a home in broader structures? For improvisers and composers, the process of collaboration is often unpredictable, humorous and vulnerable, as we step together into the unknown.