felix taylor is an artist and composer from south london working with music, objects and speech


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Projects

Live, solo (2024) Performance installation - Cafe Oto, London

‘British Library x Touching Bass’ (2024) Live performance and film rescoring - British Library, Touching Bass

‘UMI’ (2024) Exhibition Soundtrack - British Library, Beyond the Bassline exhibition

‘dusza / la alma’ (2024)’ solo installation - Museum of London, Docklands

'i can hear you between signals' (2024) installation - Gentle / Radical

‘Undercurrents’ (2024) score - Libita Sibungu collaboration for Bristol Beacon

'Earthly Accomplice' (2023) performance - w/ Imani Mason Jordan for Three Rivers Bexley and MACBA

'three + a silence for croydon' (2023) solo show - Talawa Theatre Company / Our Croydon

‘Spoons (After Carolyn Lazard)’ (2023) score - Jamila Prowse for Sussex University's Full Stack Feminism

‘Crip Quilt’ (2023) score - Jamila Prowse for UAL and TULCA Festival of Visual Arts

‘Holdings’ (2023) score - Hope Strickland for Open City festival

‘Listening and Mapping’ (2023) soundscape - Henry Moore Studios

‘Get into it’ (2023) score - Pip and Lib for Lulu Lemon

‘Blueprint for the Deep’ (2023) score collaboration - Samra Mayanja for CCA Glasgow

‘shiosia’ (2023) music release - w/ Philip Glass, Orange Mountain Music, PRS

‘the ghost is alive, so to speak’ (2022) - independent music release

live performance (2022) - support for Slauson Malone 1 at FOC, Barcelona

‘Queen and the Black Eyed Squint’ 3 film collection (2022) score - Barby Asante for Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

‘I’ll Be Back!’ film (2022) score - Hope Strickland for FACT liverpool, BFI LFF official selection

‘Ghosts, machines, etc.’ (2022) installation / publication - DIVFUSE Gallery

‘a black mass in instance no. 5’ (2021) cassette release - Chisenhale Gallery and The ICA.

‘float!’ (2021) composition - Musicity, Thames Festival and Uber Boat by Thames Clipper

‘Treadmill’ (2021) performance score - Imani Mason Jordan for Somerset House

‘Frieze live’ (2021) live sound tech and installation support - Frieze London

‘a black mass in instance no. 4’ (2020) sound work - The ICA, The BBC and Chisenhale Gallery. Release on BBC sounds and on show at ICA ‘Current Transmissions’ (2022)

‘Black Togetherness’ (2020) sound design - by Barby Asante for South London Gallery

‘TOWARDS A BLACK TESTIMONY: PRAYER/PROTEST/PEACE’ (2019) sound design - Languid Hands for Jerwood Space

‘Cartography’ (2018) sound and visual research - 1020 Radio

Composition and sound design work for various commercial projects including; Audible, Reduced Listening, BBY productions, Warner Music, The Champion Agency, Young (record label), NTS, Guardian Podacsts


Awards and residencies

Somerset House Studios resident (Current, ongoing)

Cove Park composition residency (2023) - funded by help musicians and prs music

Bothy Project composition residency (2023) - funded by help musicians and prs music

2023 Artist Award - Henry Moore Foundation

Developing Your Creative Practice Grant (2021) - Arts Council England

‘LCN Mentorship and Artistic Support Scheme’ (2021) - London Creative Network

‘BCA Online Residency’ (2020) - The Black Cultural Archives

'AiRDrop at home Residency’ (2020) - Satellite Films

‘Tech, Learn, Play’ Programming Grant (2020) - Theatre In the Mill


Workshops / Lecuters

Score Making and Listening (ongoing) - Talawa, Bow Arts

Visiting Practitioner Lecture (2024) - UAL, CRiSAP

Making Sense Workshops (2021 - 2022) Co-lead artist facilitator (10 weeks) - South London Gallery, Harris Peckham and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

‘Now or Never Workshops’ (2018) Guest soundscape and sonic art classes - Arnolfini, Bristol