Will is a composer, recording artist & arranger based in London. Known for operating freely between the worlds of contemporary classical and electronic music, Will specialises in avant-garde, experimental soundscapes, unusual textures, and intimate, distorted sound sculptures - often using an orchestra, a choir, or a piano as his source material.
As a composer, Will’s debut album, Remains(out on Castles in Space Nov. 23)is a personal story about memory & care-work told through disfigured soundscapes & half-remembered idylls of haunting, impressionist piano.
At the heart of the album are the diaries of his late father. Fragments of the text were used to derive the rhythms and melodies on which the album is built before the text was then removed so only the music remained.
Will grew up singing choral music in the Fens, studied classical music and piano at university, before moving to Berlin to work for experimental musician / composer Jonathan Bepler on Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament. This operatic film was built on performances by a vast range of musicians from different genres - Milford Graves, Joan La Barbara, Dr Lonnie Smith, Elaine Stritch, Debbie Harry.
It is this eclectic range of influences that inform his work today.