Recent Projects

(C) Neil Jarvie 2022

Unusual Ingredients

2018 - ongoing

“The effect is as invigorating as it is absorbing” The Times

Unusual ingredients is a multisensory collective exploring connections between flavour and sound. This is a collaboration with producer Adam Martin (Nightports) and food artist Caroline Hobkinson. We released our first multisensory album in March 2020, packaged as a box set combining selected food with our original music composed to modulate flavour perception. Our live multisensory show invites audiences to eat as we perform . Recent shows include Sonica Festival, Glasgow (March 2022) and KiKK Festival, Namur (October 2022). Commercial collaborations include Pink Lady® and Magnum UK. unusualingredients.co

(C) Angus McDonald 2019

(C) Neil Jarvie 2022

Launch series of events produced by Third Ear. Design by Split. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, with funding from Help Musicians UK Fusion Fund and Leeds Conservatoire.

Holding Space

2020 - ongoing

movement by Julie Havelund and Rob Keates
video by Belinda Ackermann
music by Jacob Thompson-Bell

A collaboration with dancers Julie Havelund and Rob Keates, and artist Belinda Ackermann. The project began life under lockdown in 2020. All visuals are created using only the dancers’ hands, captured remotely.

ONE

Concert series, September 2017
Recording, October 2018

performed by Ben Gaunt
visuals by SHARP (except broken pirouette)
engineering by Paul Baily
photography by Adam Martin
music by Jacob Thompson-Bell

Performances in London (Iklectik), Brighton (The Rose Hill), Manchester (IABF) and Leeds (Seven Arts). Featuring music for ONE, my collection of piano studies, alongside compositions by Shiva Feshareki, Frank Laws and Ben Gaunt, together with a newly commissioned graphic score improvisation book by Claudia Molitor. The book was created by collaging together photographs from each venue and musical sketches commissioned from Michael Betteridge (Manchester), Daniel Kidane (London), Ben Gaunt (Leeds), me, and Claudia (Brighton).

Supported using public funding by the national lottery through Arts Council England. Part of the Composer-Curator programme 2017 from Sound and Music, the national charity for new music.

Postcards from Eyemouth

April - May 2017

An exhibition and performance of graphic scores created with students at Leeds Conservatoire, inspired by postcard reflections from residents of the harbour town of Eyemouth, Scotland. Reflections were collected throughout 2016-17 by post, in meetings with community groups and through workshops in local schools. Produced and directed in collaboration with drummer Nick Katuszonek and Eyemouth Hippodrome.

Supported by funding from Creative Scotland Open Project Fund and Leeds Conservatoire. Film produced by Shadowcat Films.

Fresh Yorkshire Aires

Concerts and exhibitions, June 2016

New graphic scores from Katie English, Nigel Morgan, Jacob Thompson-Bell and Jez Riley French, exhibitions in Leeds and Sheffield, piano duo performances by Matthew Bourne and Philip Thomas.

Fresh Yorkshire Aires also showcases work online by artists based across Yorkshire. I produced and directed the project.

The project was supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, Sound and Music, Leeds College of Music, Leeds Gallery and Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.

Photography: Matthew Moorhouse. The Gallery at Munro House, Leeds.