2. Deaf Inspector

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making music / cycle footage stills

Before I delve into my perceived connections between music and architecture, I’ll take a step back in time to my home city of Birmingham in 2013. It was here where me and my bandmates in ‘Deaf Inspector’ honed our musical craft on the local scene. We rehearsed each week in the post-industrial inner city and it was during this time that I began to sense the emotional and aesthetic impact of location on the music we were making, alongside the visual art I was creating to accompany our music. I captured footage from bicycle rides around the city at night, forming artwork with a symbiotic relationship to the music. At the time I didn’t have the tools or research framework to combine all of this in a live performance but the seeds of inspiration were sewn.

Alongside our band’s work I became involved in organising and programming a youth led music festival called Project SoundLounge. We worked with the Town Hall Symphony Hall organisation to bring together musicians from the varied spectrum of the city’s music culture. It was during this time that I began to think towards the value of performance in a wider social context and connect more widely with other musical communities in my home city.