C o l l a b o r a t i o n s

When I made my website, including this page, in 1999, a year after moving to France, it seemed that artistic collaborations were the core of my work. As it turned out my work has developed in a much less collaborative way since then, and this section now reads like an account of some of my work during the last few years before I left England.

Radio plays with writer Steve May

REMPLISSON. An imaginary island where a composer and his teenage daughter are on holiday. For the music Will creates both the composer's own music and the indigenous music of the island. BBC radio 3.

Travelling Light Young People's Theatre

THE MELON BOAT . For 5-8 year olds. A young girl and her grandfather go on an adventure on a melon boat in search of a musical tea set. Gentle music played quiet, culminating in a piece for violin, soprano sax and genuine musical tea set. Over 100 performances in England.

Forge with Miranda Tufnell

"In a woody glade,as darkness fell, a dazzling flare marked the site of an ancient forge. Spectators gathered, the distant sound of Will's soprano sax came into focus as he approached. Carefully placed lights revealed a man slipping down the trunk of a tree,and in the distance a woman feeling her way around another tree's base. Lights swung on long pendulums, projecting moving shadows of bodies and foliage. From high in the trees came the gentle sounds of a hanging cluster of wooden marimba keys. From the ground, the slate marimba responded. . . . .Then, towards the end, cascades of bamboo and steel strips oozled their way earthwards down wires in a fascinating merging of sound and movement." Jason Thomas

Pomme Clayton, storyteller

AMAZING MAIDENS In live performance, Pomme reworks traditional stories from around the old world. Will makes music with ordinary and extraordinary instruments. Together they create their own new world.

Medea Mahdavi - Doves