Alien Wind
(2015 and ongoing)

An ongoing collaboration with Penny Klein. Our work began as a single improvisation between violin and cello and now spans composition, drawing, performance and video.

2015 - Alien Wind: Echoes
2016 - Alien Wind: Some Will Be Good, Some Will Be Bad
2017 - Residency at The Manorbier Reading Room
2018 - Performance lectures at The Falmouth Illustration Forum and Lighthouse, Brighton
2021 - Awarded the Jerwood 1:1 Fund
2022 - Alien Wind: Worm

‘In a mountain region where day in and day out one hears the wind relentlessly play the same invariable theme … [o]ne perhaps does not reflect that there was a time when the wind, which for many years has had its dwelling among these mountains, came as a stranger to this area, plunged wildly, absurdly through the canyons, down into the mountain caves, produced now a shriek almost startling to itself, then a hollow roar from which it it

self fled, then a moan, the source of which it itself did not know, … until, having learned to know its instrument, it worked all of this into the melody it renders unaltered day after day. (Kierkegaard 1843c, p. 155)

Alien Wind: Some Will Be Good, Some Will Be Bad, 2016

Alien Wind & Mike Rotch - Ambient DJ Set (Excerpt), 2018