"Occasionally, I'll get lost for a morning. Thinking about sounds that fascinate me, and their quality. If you take a leaf from a tree, any tree will do, and look at it, I mean really look at it, over 10-15 minutes. Perhaps this is the type of quality which really gets to me in sound."

Ell Kendall is a UK sound artist and one of BBC3's 'unclassified' composers. His influences range from avant-garde composers and performance artists to early religious music, and ritual.

The London Ambient Orchestra is a collaboration of alternative classical artists, joined together through a mutual goal of exploration, expression, and experimentation.

The Sacred Nature collection being performed, is a body of secular composition, in spiritual reflection and reverence of the Earth.

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Pedal steel guitarist, composer and sound artist Joe Harvey-Whyte began making immersive soundscapes to help ease his insomnia and tinnitus. His debut solo release Flatland / Spaceland was released on None More Records.

Joe is also an in-demand session player and has worked with a range of artists including The Magic Numbers, Susanne Sundfør , Billy Bragg , Tony Visconti & The Hanging Stars.

“This guy is outer space” - Tony Visconti