Dai Watts
Dai Watts is a composer, found-sound artist and Musical Director living in London.
He has created a range of instrumental works based around recordings of people and places that have been featured on the BBC, including The Ballad of Berwick Street Market, Fiesta!, Liminalondon and his new album Isolarion.
As a Musical Director and pianist, Dai has performed on stages from Edinburgh Castle to Café de Paris to Glastonbury, and conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s iconic Angel Studios for Rachel Fuller and Pete Townshend’s new musical Siddhartha.
Isolarion is a type of 15th Century map that describes areas in great detail, but not necessarily how they are related.
The work is comprised of captured conversations, sounds of the city and noises from the natural world, recorded in Rio de Janeiro, London, Dammam, Hvar, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Galicia, Somerset, Arcachon and Normandy.
The field recordings from across the globe form the basis for eleven disparate tracks that combine synths, voices and strings with pianos, guitars and drums, woven together to form one continuous soundtrack.
The album is available on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Dai has also composed music for shows on the BBC, ITV, Channels 4 and 5, Netflix and Amazon, and his works have appeared on TV, film and advertising worldwide.
In the last year he has written two choral works for the the Choir of the King’s Chapel of the Savoy in London- the motet Peace and the carol Angels Came From Heaven High.
