Work in Twenty Sixteen
Started 2016 in Australia, with New Years Eve at Lost Paradise and New Years Day at Let Them Eat Cake with Jon Hopkins, these are stills from new visuals created for Jon's Remix of Magnets by Disclosure
Performed with Blanck Mass for Record Store Day at Rough Trade East and also headline shows at Oslo, and Lexington continuing to develop the visceral live show. Stills from manipulated X-Rays found in a Glaswegian junk shop by my friend Miles Joseph.
I spent a long time working on the album sleeve for Gold Panda’s third record, laying out the text around Laura Lewis's photos she took on her trips to Japan with Gold Panda. I created a set of images photographing defective optical glass cubes, configured in a grid like the controls on the samplers Gold Panda uses to make the record. I photographed a range of imagery projected through the cubes, including the album cover photo and the original Japanese receipt from Gold Pandas first ever MPC sampler which make up the inner sleeve and centre labels of the record.
^ Above is the final spread of the LP inner & outer sleeve, and the actual cubes set up in the studio.
Old friend and long term collaborator Luke Abbott suggested working with the dancer Lucy Suggate to remake a Norman McLaren film Pas De Deux, this was supported by the East End Film Festival and we performed the piece to an audience at Oval Space in London.
These visuals were created for East India Youth and toured a few times, I made an edited version of these visuals which EIY and his management have given kind permission to share. Although EIY is on hiatus, expect something new from William Doyle in 2017.
^ Szun Waves at Village Underground 03/16 photo: Alex Kozobolis
Luke Abbott also invited me to join his collaboration with Laurence Pike and Jack Wylie, collectively known as Szun Waves, this is an excerpt of a performance in London captured from a single camera. The video is all synthesised in real time, so I start in a similar place to the musicians with nothing pre prepared and improvise with them.
Working closely with Gold Panda we went to Japan to make a video for his track Chiba Nights and to gather material for the new live show. We toured across Europe, the US and went back again to Japan, performing over 50 shows in five months.
^ Your Good Times Are Only Just Beginning recorded live at debut of live show at Norwich Arts Centre, with kind support from Hawthorn Hire
Hello Moon Can You Hear Me? a project instigated by Tim Burgess and O Genesis records is a piece of music created from the sounds of the telescope at Jodrell Bank, near Manchester. Jim Spencer and David Tolan sequenced the track from the recordings of the Big Bang and other extraordinary sounds. I used the same bank of audio recordings to create a video accompaniment using a range of synthesis techniques. The video was debuted at a Blue Dot Festival under the telescope itself.
Jon Hopkins re-released his album Opalescent to mark its 15 year anniversary. I made a video for the track Cold Out There utilising a flying drone cam over the Norfolk Coast assisted by my good friend Marcus Williams

^ Still from the experiments for James Holden’s new visuals
Following a residency at Metal in Liverpool and speaking at the Ableton Loop conference in Berlin in 2015 early shows with James Holden's new live band have been a good experiment with much more to come in support of the new record in 2017
Production of a new video for the Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans, and performed visuals for them at their Brixton show too - these guys know how to party and it's always a joy to work with them. Watch the video here
To surmise...
We suffered collapsing stages, falling screens, missed flights, had awful and amazing meals met so many new friends and caught up with old ones too. Pushed myself and the equipment harder than I ever have before and I'm grateful that I have a lot to be thankful for. An additional massive thanks to Norwich Arts Centre, to all the staff for continually supporting and working with me and letting me try out some daft ideas and bring enormous LED screens into the building.
In personal life, I consolidated some debt, got a tattoo and started learning Japanese