Jonathan Mustard has been placing the performer at the centre of electronic music since 1991, bringing a heart and liveliness to a medium often accused of lacking these very qualities.
Whether he is using dancers, or musical instruments to manipulate sound and video in ‘real-time’, there is a strong commitment to the things we value in live performance and a unique approach to his often-quirky sonic and visual materials.

His ‘mother tongue’ is flute, but he uses a wide array of wind instruments and other acoustic devices with computer-interactive and reactive systems. These systems are often completely empty vessels in the sense that there are no pre-recorded or pre-synthesised sounds being used and rely entirely on input from a performer for its material.

Since collaborating with choreographer Chrissie Parrot, ongoing from 2003, Jonathan has extended his crossover into visual arts, making video and animation for and about dance. This, now rich partnership, continues to explore new territory in the collision between sound, dance, technology and visual media.

Mustard’s growing repertoire of solo audiovisual works break new ground in the relationship between sight and sound, where the different elements of sound and music are entangled with way in which we see the moving images. The result traverses a broad emotional and aesthetic range.

check out www.jambird.com for info on performances and past projects