Hi, I'm George. I work in and around broadcasting, experimental music, the arts, and side-stream progressive culture, fascinated by the ways these interact and intersect. An artist first and foremost, I work to help carry out creative visions 🌊
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2021 highlights - click for links
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A couple of quick links if you're looking for listening – 2 Artist Focus programmes: on Suzanne Vega, and Joni Mitchell, both for Melodic Distraction Radio.
Below is a nexus of my recent public-facing engagements. Please find a scroll's worth of things I have been involved with, helped to facilitate, or otherwise partaken in (particularly 'online') over the past year plus, 2020-22.
For working life enquiries please email Central Services. Thanks again, and welcome..:
For working life enquiries please email Central Services. Thanks again, and welcome..:
Currently working on a podcast series for St Helens arts org Heart of Glass • MD Radio's weekday breakfast show, Mornings With • New collaborative late-evening talk show and music-sharing stream titled INNERMOST ⭕️ SANCTUM • Co-presenting and part-producing BBC Merseyside's longstanding alternative radio programme, the Popular Music Show.
Just finished producing the digital online part of a pair of hybrid COP26 events at Metal Edge Hill
• Working with artist Anna Macdonald on Ways of doing things, made in response to the work of the Human Cell Atlas
• Video edits of How to be Afraid?'s February 2021 and May 2021 performances with Mary Pearson, mayfield brooks and Seke Chimutengwende
• As the Technical Producer (Online Production Team) @ Abandon Normal Devices, delivering the digital programme as AND re-emerged on-line and in person. AND Festival 2021 highlights video here, trailer here, and full documentation on their Vimeo.
• Working with artist Anna Macdonald on Ways of doing things, made in response to the work of the Human Cell Atlas
• Video edits of How to be Afraid?'s February 2021 and May 2021 performances with Mary Pearson, mayfield brooks and Seke Chimutengwende
• As the Technical Producer (Online Production Team) @ Abandon Normal Devices, delivering the digital programme as AND re-emerged on-line and in person. AND Festival 2021 highlights video here, trailer here, and full documentation on their Vimeo.
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• A live-streamed video mix of Lake Turner & Sam Wiehl's hybrid performance at Future Yard (available to view on Kompakt's channel). I vision-mixed this live-streamed concert of Lake Turner and Sam Wiehl on 12 June 2021, featuring 3D sculptures by Ana Drucker – taking place predominantly in Wiehl's vast, spectacularly-imagined virtual hyper~world, as well as in Wirral venue Future Yard. Deep space states await. Enjoy a recap:
• A live-streamed video mix of Lake Turner & Sam Wiehl's hybrid performance at Future Yard (available to view on Kompakt's channel). I vision-mixed this live-streamed concert of Lake Turner and Sam Wiehl on 12 June 2021, featuring 3D sculptures by Ana Drucker – taking place predominantly in Wiehl's vast, spectacularly-imagined virtual hyper~world, as well as in Wirral venue Future Yard. Deep space states await. Enjoy a recap:
+ more from that night with Lo Five's live set here.
• Recently worked as Digital Producer on this performance by mayfield brooks, Mary Pearson and Seke Chimutengwende for Independent Dance. The artists were in 3 different cities, and it was ID's first ever live-streamed event. I mixed the video sources live while feeding a selection of their images into a projector, which was in turn filmed and streamed live simultaneously:
• Every alternate Monday I host Melodic Distraction radio's Mornings With programme from 10am-12pm.
• Formerly broadcasting from my home studio set-up, I'm now fortunate to use the MDR HQ in-the-flesh – often with a guest!
• Here's a recent stand-out you might've missed (guest = my mother):
• Formerly broadcasting from my home studio set-up, I'm now fortunate to use the MDR HQ in-the-flesh – often with a guest!
• Here's a recent stand-out you might've missed (guest = my mother):
• Loved producing and facilitating this live-streamed concert-from-home that featured Raft of Trash and co performing here at the Painted Oasis:
• Work-in-progress for Metal's Future Network Shorts, originally broadcast as an Instagram Live portrait-style video, this is #PsychCapital v2.0:
• Cartier 4 Everyone on Melodic Distraction Radio, a monthly show for the past three years:
• My most recent solo instrumental electronic guitar release on Bandcamp:
• My work-in-progress for Metal Culture; live performance piece filmed at Kazimier Stockroom, November 2019:
• Something a little heavier of mine on BC:
• My first 'Unicursal' release:
• My second record under the 'Unicursal' alias:
• A personal favourite solo guitar piece of mine, recorded as part of a live session for BBC Merseyside:
• Short film from a performance & conservation exercise at Tate Liverpool, April 2019. Part of LightNight and Reshaping the Collectible:
