Will is a composer, artist and arranger based in London. His debut album, Remains(out on Castles in Space)is a personal story about loss, memory, and 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.
“A reflective journey, where the very essence of life is translated into powerful, emotive soundscapes.” Last Day Deaf
“moments of unbridled sublimity.“ Jay Honeycomb – No Transmission
Will is also active as an arranger / orchestrator for other musicians. He has written and conducted arrangements for bands and artists, including alt-J, Daughter, hmltd and David Gilmour’s forthcoming album Luck and Strange.
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.
