Jason Singh, Earth Unwrapped Artist in Residence

A sound artist, nature beatboxer, producer, DJ, performer and facilitator, Jason Singh’s areas of work all stem from a multi-sensory approach to sound and music and at the very heart of it, active listening. Jason’s ongoing exploration of nature, interspecies interactions, voice, technology, and cross-art form collaborations with musicians, wildlife experts, textiles, ceramicists, visual artists and choreographers feed into a wide range of multi-faceted projects in the UK and internationally. Work encompasses live performances, gallery installations, sound walks, podcasts, DJ sets, and music for film and theatre, with commissions from national museums and galleries, the BBC and major festivals.

Throughout is career, Jason has been an in-demand beatboxer bringing his unique vocal talents to the stage with artists such as Nitin Sawhney, Yazz Ahmed, The Comet is Coming, Shabaka Hutchings, The Breath, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Talvin Singh, Cerys Matthews and Natacha Atlas.  His own live performances with regular collaborators Giuliano Modarelli and Tamar Osborn will see a new project coming later in 2025.

Featured in the ‘Top of the World’ chart and nominated for ‘Album of the the Year’ in Songlines Magazine 2023, his most recent album Travellers with The Banwasi Collective, features an ensemble of master instrumentalists and vocalists from the Manganiyar community of Rajasthan as well as UK jazz instrumentalists.

For Jason’s Earth Unwrapped residency, he will be further exploring his long-running connection with the natural world through a series of events. Beginning with a live soundtrack to the 1929 silent documentary Drifters, about Britain’s North Sea herring fishery; continuing with Moon Scales, an immersive large-scale multichannel sound installation consisting of eight spatialised soundscapes set around a suspended replica of the moon; and concluding with a new audio visual project that tells the story of the extraordinary polymath Jagadish Bose, whose work as a physicist, biophysicist, biologist and botanist changed the world.