Selected Projects

2010: Conducted John Cale's first live performance in Wales of the album Paris 1919. Commissioned by Soundtrack Film Festival. Performed in The Coal Exchange, Cardiff.

2012: Original score and sound design for theatre production 'To Live, To Love, To Be' – Sherman Theatre. Director: Phillip MacKenzie.

2012: 'Jerry The Troublesome Tyke: Composed and conducted live performances of original orchestral scores to picture for this 1920's animated film series by Cardiff animator Sid Griffiths. Swansea Festival of Arts.

2012-13: Creative Wales Award research grant to develop the multi-disciplinary work Atgyfodi. The Arts Council of Wales.

2013: Crowds & Power: Sherman Theatre – Original Music and Sound Design. Director: Phillip Mackenzie.

2013: Maudie's Rooms - Original music and sound design for site-specific theatre work in Cardiff’s Exchange building. Director: Louise Osborn.

2014: Bedazzled – A Welshman In New York – Composition, and sound desing based on field recordings for an installation & performance work. Co-devised with David Drake, Ben Gwalchmai, and Ffotogallery. A Dylan Thomas 100 commission.

2014: Song Cycle Commission Bore Oes:  A collaboration with poet Mererid Hopwood. Commissioned by Pontio, and premiered by Elin Manahan Thomas and Jeffrey Howard. A Dylan Thomas 100 commission.

2014: Music and sound design for The Institute, a performance/physical theatre feature film by choreographer  Sean Tuan John.

2015: Original music for BAFTA nominated documentary feature film Fog Of Sex, a film investigation into sex workers in Education. Directed by Chris Morris.

2015: Musical Director, and composer for Ar Waith, Ar Daith in collaboration with The Wales Millennium Centre, and theatre/events producyion company Walk The Plank.

2016: 'The Phoenix In The Stone': Original music for projection mapping event for Leeds Light Night, commissioned by Rob & Matt Vale of Illuminos.

2017: Concrète – An immersive sound installation and performance work celebrating the introduction of noise into music by Luigi Russolo and the Futurists. A collaboration with Ffotogallery, as part of Diffusion Festival, 2017.

2018: Atgyfodi - Creation of a large scale installation and multi-media performance piece, in collaboration with the St Fagans National Museum of History’s sound and photographic archives, and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Performed site-specific in the Museum in October, 2018. Production grant from the Arts Council of Wales, The PRS Foundation, and Ty Cerdd.

2018: Chapter Readings: Ambient surround-sound design and music for Chapter Readings, featuring authors reading original work. Chapter Arts Centre Peilot Scheme. Directed by Phillip MacKenzie.

2018-2019: My Grandfather, The Spy: Original score for drama documentary feature film. Shoot From The Hip Films. Directors: Dave Evans, and Martin Scanlan.

2018-2019: PARADE: A multi-disciplinary installation, and digital work, commissioned by Maindee Library’s Finding Maindee, part of the Arts Council of Wales’ Ideas, People, Places community based initiative.

2019: Y Brain/Kalgalar - Original music and sound design for theatre production based on the writings of Meltem Arikan for Be Aware Productions. Director: Memet Ali Alabora.

2019: Y Tywysog a'r Bomiwr/The Prince and the Bomber - Original score for documentary, commissioned by BBC/S4C. Director: Marc Evans.

2019: Atgyfodi screened as part of the Green Man Festival.

2020: 'The Matthew Purnell Show': Original score for short film featuring a cast of 31 learning-disabled and/or autistic actors. Commissioned by inclusive theatre company Hijinx. Directed by Dan MacGowan.

2020: Creation of original soundscapes for a series of observational audio journals in collaboration with writer Sarah Featherstone for online streaming, a response to the Coronavirus crisis. Self Published & streamed as part of The Wales Arts Review 'Digithon' online festival.

2020: Beyond The Label: Creation of soundscapes/musical responses to poetry and prose recorded by people with lived experience of mental health conditions. Breathe Creative & Ty Canna.

2020-2021: | təʊl |: Research and development of an immersive soundscape and performance project in collabroation with percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. The Arts Council of Wales.

2021: Creation of original sound and music for Influence; a film by Supercharger-Blown Collective & Nástio Mosquito. Shown as part of the Spielart 2021 in Munich. Directed by Ric Bower.

2021-2022: Parc Gwyllt: research and development for an immersive audio visual work in collaboration with Parc Prison, Bridgend.

2021-2022: Stones and Dust and Glitch: original music for two short films. Directed by Daniel McGowan for Hijinx.

2021-2022: Creation of Installation work HOSPES in collaboration with the Arts for Health and Wellbeing Programme at Cardiff & Vale Health Charity, part of the Cardiff Royal Infirmary: People, Place, Future project, funded by the Arts Council of Wales through the Arts, Health and Wellbeing Lottery Fund.

2022-2023: Amleddau: a radio-art and film work based on the archives of BBC Radio Cymru, broadcast in February, and screened in The National Museum, Cardiff, in June 2023. A BBC commission to celebrate the Centenary of the first Welsh language broadcast in Cardiff in 1923.

2023-2024: John is currently working on an R&D project funded by The Arts Council of Wales for a new installation project; an investigation of the Cymraeg and the history of incarceration.