Throughout 2023, I collaborated with UK sound artists Isolated Community on 'We Are The Wreckage Of Our Former Selves'. A project that explored how nature and the ravages of time are transforming World War Two coastal defences.

The project began with us making field recordings near to our respective homes at Alnmouth, Northumberland and Bawdsey, Suffolk in 2023. These audio recordings were sent back and forth, manipulated, mangled and improvised over.

I visited Bawdsey a number of times to record the dawn chorus, and the echoing sounds from inside the structure of the abandoned gun-battery. I interacted with the concrete by scraping and bouncing stones on its surface. I attached contact microphones onto its steel innards. I observed the swallows coming and going. I recorded images and video for a promotional film. I spoke with other visitors to the site about their connection to the location, and how it had become a haven for both native and migratory birds.

The structure and I struggled to understand each other.

An album of the finished compositions was released on Inverted Grim-Mill Recordings in January 2025.

I wrote this description for the release:
"Cold, grey remnants pock mark the coastal landscape of the East Coast. Thrown up, unused, abandoned and forgotten to the ravages of time, they now offer sanctuary to migratory birds and to occasional illicit soirées. Memorials to fallen dreams and a wrecked reminder of another time, these concrete carcasses condemn a nation unable to confront its past."