How to be a forest

for improviser, field recordings, and electronics

ecollage_03

for mixed ensemble, field recordings, and electronics

Paperback book of text scores for improvisers. Available now.

Performance and research in kinesonic improvisation.

Album release of Henry performing Chilli and Bonbon (Catherin, 2019) - solo work for improviser and live electronics.

Premiere of ecollage_03 (part of ecollages series) + Henry premieres Lauren Redhead's FishFossilFake, with Alastair Zaldue, Pete Furniss, Amy Jolly, Ellen Sargen, and Lauren Redhead at Levenshulme Old Library (May 2025)

Publication in Liminalities Journal: McPherson, D.H.J., Sappho, M., Catherin, B. (2025). Making mycorrhizal noise: hypermedia, digitality, and interpreting the paraficional universes of the noisebringers. Liminalities, 20(3).

Publication in Dementia Journal: McPherson et al. (2025). Music in Mind Training: Producing a theory of change model to evaluate the implementation of an improvisation-based music-making training programme for care home staff working with people with dementia https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14713012251319589

Noisebringers Resurrection Multiverse Tour in Cork (IE) with performances at Maureen's and The Roundy (April 2025)

3-part podcast interview with Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble's The Sound of Curiosity Podcast

How to be a forest (2024) premieres at New Xpectations Audio Camp (Aberystwyth, Welsh Experimental Music Alliance) + audiovisual version installed at Fox Yard Studios (Lowestoft) Vision Exhibition

Environmental Reciprocity in Improvising Practice - essay published in Cultures of Sound (Book) with Huddersfield University Press

How to play Mariana (2021) premieres in Eugene, Oregon, by Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble

Four star review of Maud (2023) (revised version) performed by Scottish Opera Young Company (Opera Now/Gramophone)

Publication in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Dowlen, R., McPherson, D. H. J., Swarbrick, C., Hoskin, L., Thompson, J., & Keady, J. (2024). Creating and Reliving the Moment: Using Musical Improvisation and Care Aesthetics as a Lens of Connection and Self-Expression for Younger People Living with Dementia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(8), 972. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21080972

Interlunar (2022), released on Gateless Garden (Shan Goril LA Records - Brain Bromberg)