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, Liminalondon and his latest album Isolarion.
Dai has also composed music for shows on the BBC, ITV, Channels 4 and 5, Netflix and Disney, and his works have appeared on TV, film and advertising worldwide. He has also written two choral works for the Choir of the King’s Chapel of the Savoy in London- the motet Peace and the carol Angels Came From Heaven High.
As a Musical Director and pianist, Dai has performed on stages from The Royal Festival Hall to Edinburgh Castle to Glastonbury, and conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for the cast recording of Rachel Fuller and Pete Townshend’s new musical The Seeker, featuring Elton John and Emeli Sandé.
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.
