Tim leads several bands and projects including
Tongues of Fire – an eight piece riot of reeds and brass making a ‘joyful noise’ for dreaming, dancing and celebration. www.tongues-of-fire.co.uk. www.myspace/tonguesfire
Rag and Bone, an outdoor performance group. www.rag-bone.org
Albion Horns – a community village band based in somerset. www.myspace/thealbionhorns
Twittering Machine –folkadelic improv and wasteland fairy tales with animations, automata, etc. The band includes hurdy gurdy player Cliff Stapleton and animater/device maker Dave Young. Go to www.myspace.com/machinetwittering
Worlds Unknown Trio – free folk, improv and new music trio with Steve Noble, drums, and Dom Lash on bass. You can see this band at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEW7YD9CPuo.
Leviathan Whispers - an ongoing project exploring the sound of landscape and the landscape of sound, with giant wind instruments, digital sound, installations and sound labyrinths. Funded by the PRS Foundation and Arts Council England to put on a sound event at Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire. Collaborators include acclaimed ‘dronecore’ digital sound manipulator Jonathan Coleclough and artist/maker/animator Dave Young. Go to www.leviathanwhispers.co.uk
These are the latest in a line of bands exploring the edge of grooves, noise, improv and composition including The Noise Eating Monsters, Mayhem Quartet and Pandaemonium. You can order CD,s from his website, www.tongues-of-fire.co.uk
Tim has been making a noise since working with guitarist Mike Cooper in the 1980’s and has since played with many great improvisers including; Paul Burwell, Derek Bailey, Max Eastly, Pat Thomas, Roger Turner, Geoff Hawkins and many more.
Tim plays, makes and researches period wind instruments and sings in the Mellstock Band, recreating English rural church, dance and folk music of the 18th and 19th century, particularly drawing on the work of Thomas Hardy. The band was recently heard on Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’, and appeared at this years Three Choirs Festival, and has featured in Radio, TV productions and film productions like ‘Pride and Prejudice’, and the ‘The Mayor Of Casterbridge’.Tim helped recreate outdoor band sounds for TV and film productions like 'Return of the Native', 'Far from the Madding Crowd' and 'Tess of the D'Urbyvilles'. He runs workshops and education projects, this year creating a thirty five piece street band for the Cowley Road Carnival in Oxford and working with Salford Youth Concert Band. He has been musical director on projects for Welfare State International, Walk the Plank and ONCE.For ten years Tim led Pandaemonium, a concert, street Band and theatre group in performances ranging from the landscape inspired suite ‘Flint’ and Sun Ra tributes to out door masques and celebrations. The masque, ‘Pandeamonium’ was inspired by the radical visionary and divine John Pordage indicted in the Interegnum for summoning dragons and bringing the New Jerusalem down in his front room.
