7pm to 8.15pm

Come and sample the work of composer, sound artist writer and published novelist John Kefala Kerr. John will present work-in-progress created as part of his recent Associate Artist residency at An Tobar and Mull Theatre on the Isle of Mull.

Fray is an audio-visual installation that is inspired by handweaving on Mull (and further afield). The work invites audiences to consider pattern, hue and texture, and the interwoven sights and sounds of coastlines, mountains, running water, living things, machinery, optical illusions…

John’s work is motivated in part by his British-Greek heritage; having grown up immersed in the language and culture of rural Greece, he is sensitive to the striking environmental and geographical parallels between the Inner Hebrides and the Pelion region.

As part of Dry Water’s Listening Room programme, John will share some of the fabric-inspired music and sound he has been developing. He will also be experimenting in situ: working with live weaving and reading extracts from his Fray poems

John is a prize-winning graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama  John has studied composition with Jonathan Harvey and Michael Finnissy. John has had work presented at festivals and venues in the UK, USA, Europe and Japan, including the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York; Wigmore Hall; St John’s Smith Square; South Bank Centre, London; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; Select 107 FM; Teatro Rossini, Pesaro; Atelier St Ann, Brussels and De Singel, Antwerp.