Bobby Williams

I TURNED AND LOOKED Conversations between Music & Photography by @musicandbeing Jess Dandy Debbie Green Alex Mills Clare Park Dylan Perez Bobby Williams Saturday 11th July-Monday 31st August 2026 @brantwoodconiston I TURNED AND LOOKED is a music & photography installation created by the interdisciplinary group, Music & Being, for the Severn Studio at Brantwood, Coniston – the home of 19th century polymath, #johnruskin Emerging over two and a half years of residencies, the work asks what it means to attend seriously, sensuously, and collectively to a place – and to be changed by it.   At its heart is a desire to create a space soft enough to feel into the deepest parts of our shared human existence. Brantwood is not scenery but solvent, source, provocation, and living environment — a place whose lifeforms and histories exert cumulative, visceral force. Running through this forest of symbols is the figure of Hengerdd — from Old Cumbric, carrying the sense of Old Song.  It is her world that we encounter in the Severn Studio. Hengerdd is not simply a character, but the ensouled Earth itself, an animating force, a visionary into the imaginal realm.   She is Ruskin’s ‘genius loci’ (spirit of place), shapeshifter, the Ancient of Days.  Masked and unmasked, it is this multiform Hengerdd we glimpse – like a wild animal – in the photographs.  We hear her voice in the music and spoken word, oracular, chthonic, invocatory. The music she leaves with her footsteps becomes a glistening trail, her spoor, a web of Old Song.   Part listening room, part secular chapel, I TURNED AND LOOKED invites visitors into an ecological matrix in which sound, image, history, and the more-than-human world are woven together in one charged and living space. Photograph ©️ Clare Park @clareparkphoto @perezalicious @bobbysaviour @alexjmills @jessicadandy #debbiegreen #cumbria #lakedistrictnationalpark #johnruskin

I T U R N E D A N D L O O K E D Conversations between Music & Photography from 11th July until 31st August 2026 The Severn Studio, Brantwood East of Lake, Coniston Cumbria …to perceive this world, you must remain very quiet, prone to whisperings… by Music and Being Jess Dandy Debbie Green Alex Mills Clare Park Dylan Perez Bobby Williams A secular chapel to our inherited Earth Iconography for an Ecological Age A temperate rainforest of sound Supported by @aceagrams @accharitablesettlement @brantwoodconiston @jessicadandy @alexjmills @clareparkphoto @perezalicious @bobbysaviour @musicandbeing #johnruskin #photography #music #ecologicalart Photograph copyright Clare Park

Composed 150 years ago today, here is Hamilton Clarke's (1840–1912) - Romanza for corno solo, Op. 149, a work "composed expressly for his friend William Handley, on 5th March 1876". Originally written for horn and orchestra, the Romanza is performed here by Anneke Scott (Marcel Auguste Raoux, cor d'orchestre) and @devinemusicman (Érard, grand piano) in a version by John Humphries. Humphries, in his British Horn Society article on Hamilton Clarke, William Handley and the rediscovery of this work highlights Clarke's "strong opinion that the hand-horn was a superior instrument to the valve horn" and suggests that "[w]hile the use of the hand-horn lingered in England longer than it did in many countries, it was pretty much obsolete in professional circles by 1876 and so the Romanza was probably the last piece ever composed for the traditional instrument in England before its 20th-century revival." (John Humphries, "Hamilton Clarke's Romanza for Corno and Orchestra: a survivor against the odds", "The Horn Player", Autumn 2024, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 24). The Romanza for Corno solo and Orchestra by Hamilton Clarke is now available from edition db (/hamiltonclarketext.htm). Full score and parts: edb 0502007; chamber version edb 0705014; piano reduction edb 0702029. Anneke Scott - natural horn (Marcel Auguste Raoux) Steven Devine - piano (Érard) @bobbysaviour - audio and video.

Amelia is growing. Here’s a snippet from my recording session in London in February ♥️ Thank you @florent.mourier.piano and @bobbysaviour from @london.recording.days for the great collab🙏🏼

@reenaesmail writes in dendrites as she charts the growth of the Aśvattha, the Hindu sacred fig tree, growing from Heaven to Earth, whose leaves are the Vedic mantras. Hear its European sister tree in the wood wide web of ‘Eternity in an Hour’, our reimagining of the Bhagavad Gita, this Saturday 21st February at @kingsplacelondon Premiered @oxfordsong October 2024 @kevalshahpiano @bobbysaviour @clareparkphoto @askonasholt @rowan.bidmead #hinduism #bhagavadgita #meditation #song #ritual #contralto #piano #spirituality

If you’ve ever wondered what *real* London foxes sound like when declaring love…this is probably not it 🦊 Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️ — Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen (2022) @hgopera @lada_valesova @eleanorjoyburke 🍄 Vixen Sharp-Ears @carolinetaylorsoprano 🍁 Gold-Stripe the Fox @milettezzo 🎥 @bobbysaviour #ClassicalMusic #TheCunningLittleVixen #UrbanFox #ValentinesDay #OperaSingersOfInstagram

Out today! My first single on @songathletics . Listen where you listen, or even better, buy on sarahnicolls.bandcamp! :) In ‘sun and moon’ the sounds come from my ‘Inside-Out Piano’ and a sampled version which will be soon released as a virtual software instrument with Song Athletics. I play a lot with the inside of the piano - muted strings, magnets, bow, plucks, gently hitting the bass strings with a timpani mallet (which sounds so full and lush) but this is the first ever track where I’ve used real and virtual pianos - the same thing recorded and played in two different ways - one direct, physical, acoustic and one through being recorded and then performed via software on a keyboard. One is present, reverberant, resonant in its wood right in front of the mic and the other is all through effects, delays, echoes, ephemeral, imagined to some extent. As one but in different reverbs. It seems to me like “spooky action at a distance” which I’ve held in my head for a while (I don’t pretend to understand quantum entanglement, so holding in my head is as close as I’ll get).  And it makes me think about things which are in conversation but don’t meet, things which commune but don’t touch.  The sun and moon alternate endlessly and sometimes I see them together in the sky.  I’ve also been listening to David Sylvian a lot for the past 18 months, loving his velvet voice and the sumptuous indulgence of the beds of sounds.  I try to make simple melodies shrouded in strange sounds and this time I tried to embody the soothing legato of his singing. The echoes of distant piano might be spooky. The ‘action’ is all of the moving parts of a piano. At a distance is sun and moon.   Will be appearing on Bandcamp during today and also an*exclusive* film with Bobby Williams. #sunandmoon #insideoutpiano

Jess Dandy, contralto James Orford, piano Bobby Williams, sound & video engineer recorded 11th August 2025 at St John the Divine, Kennington, London Rhapsodie für eine Altstimme, Männerchor und Orchester Op 53 by Johannes Brahms text from Harzreise im Winter by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dress @thefoldlondon Earrings @terihowesjewellery @askonasholt @rowan.bidmead @paul_f_mzs @grace.hewett #brahms #classical #classicalmusic #contralto #goethe

Jess Dandy, contralto James Orford, piano Bobby Williams, sound & video engineer recorded 11th August 2025 at St John the Divine, Kennington, London Have mercy, my God, for my tears! Look here, my heart and eyes weep bitterly before you. Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Zähren willen! Schaue hier, Herz und Auge weint vor dir bitterlich. from Part II of Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 by Johann Sebastian Bach Dress @talbotrunhof

Sunday morning feels the right time to share this. A new, born-in-the-moment track by me on piano and Inside-Out Piano. ‘Breathing’. I’ve been really getting into rocking pairs of chords, through davidsylvian258 and @laurelhalo and this just emerged during a day of filming recently, with @bobbysaviour at @rattleandbrash in Stroud. I really hope you all enjoy this one, it feels really special to me. Thanks for listening/watching. Audio/youtube versions coming.

Home to find a proof copy of "Letters from Scandinavia" 😍 #LettersFromScandinavia

I loved working with the inspirational @sarahpianolife and her unique #insideoutpiano on our film of her composition ‘Lavender’ for @pianodayofficial Here’s a short clip… the full film’s in my profile, and (recommended!) in 4K and hi-fidelity on youtube: sarah piano nicolls. Made @rattleandbrash Stroud, UK More to come soon!