I received a commission in the autumn of 2025 to provide a soundscape for Mark Pozlep’s ‘Leviathan’.

Mark was the international artist for the SPILL 2025 festival, and Leviathan was the culmination of Mark’s research into the changing face of the Suffolk coast.

The completed composition was nearly forty minutes long, and contained almost one hundred individual sounds that float in and around both Mark’s vivid narration and the touching interviews of two fishermen reflecting on their lives at sea.

My work sensitively drew upon the recollections of the fishermen and the other people that Mark met on his journey. It also included sonic responses to my extensive research into the towns, villages and communities that call the Suffolk coast home: from sonifying historic fishing data from Lowestoft to recreating radar beeps at Bawdsey and to family arcade fun at Felixstowe.

Leviathan was presented as a conversation with a sea-monster as a dual screen video and sound installation at St Mary’s Church in Ipswich for the duration of the SPILL festival.

The work was also presented as a guided soundwalk along the bank of the river Stour on the Shotley Peninsula. The extremely high tide flooding the coastal path, along with a blustery wind whipping salty water into participant's faces, certainly added to the experience.