Understory: A collection of stories from West Cumbria to Newcastle on the East coast. Understory will map the contributions of local people and their environmental concerns such as urban development in rural areas, conservation locally – from road verges, farmland, parks, allotments, community nature reserves, to urban living; recording changes in the landscape and how a scale, a catalogue of changes, from small to large, affects us all. Supported by The Marchus Trust and The Hinrichsen Foundation.

Hack the Barbican: curated by School of Music and Fine Art Lecturers (University of Kent) Kate Halsall and Duncan MacLeod: a series of installations, cross disciplinary performances and exhibitions between 19th-23rd August 2013 as part of the Hack the Barbican, Barbican Centre, London (Hammerson Room). 

Sound and Vision: Improvised music for films relating to themes of landscape and change, also using text sources from Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes (Letter XII from The Borough), Graham Greene, D H Lawrence (living in the chinks; The Rainbow) and Cumbrian poet Meg Peacocke. January 2014 – 100 Years Gallery, E9. The films were created for Galvanize through a Sound and Music open call.

Happenstance: (supported by Arts Council England) which began at Dean Clough Gallery Halifax (July 2014) and has travelled to LV21 (Gillingham, Kent), Limewharf (London, E2), and Bluecoat (Liverpool). Happenstance part 1 created a series of inter and un-connected performances based around the cadavre exquis surrealist parlour game, and chance interactions. It featured improvised music by Galvanize, and works by Tansy Davies, LSO Soundhub composers’ Helen Papaioannou and Robert Szymanek, Paul Fretwell, Phil Maguire, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, and John Cage. Two commissions were by sound/visual artist Angie Atmadjaja (Life and death is wearing me out) and composer Edward Jessen (MAIDEN NAME), with a live performance on Resonance fm.

Happenstance also commissioned for Joanna Ward, Duncan MacLeod and Carmel Smickersgill, with performances at Lit & Phil Library Newcastle Upon Tyne, City University London, Cafe Oto London, with guest ensemble Fretwork viols.