WORK
UN/BOUND Installation
2025
Commissioned by Barbican Immersive for Feel The Sound, ILĀ collaborated with TRANS VOICES and MONOM to create a holographic choral experience and connect to a vivid soundscape by listening or using their own voice. UN/BOUND reveals the voice as a means of true expression, illuminating new spaces of belonging and collective resonance, where deep listening acts as a catalyst for change.
Supported by Neutone, MOTH & 4DSOUND.
SECURESCUE 360
2025
Spatial sound installation composed by ILĀ and Coda Nicolaeff commissioned for Stroud Sacred Music Festival in collaboration with Loss Gain and D&B Audio.
RECURSE [Infinite mix]
2025
Commissioned by and in collaboration with MOTH: a generative Quantum Music Experience
Infinite-mix is a new sonic format – a continuously generating real-time stream of music; an infinitely extended remix generated using Quantum AI. Trained on original music composed by ILĀ, RECURSE [infinite mix] represents an artist-first approach to generative AI creativity, contrasting autonomous music gen AI platforms on the market today.
MOVEMENTS FROM THE MARGINS
2024
Resident Artist in collaboration with Ray Felix Carter for Movements from the Margins. Residency at PRAH recordings and performance at Turner Contemporary, powered by Black-led, Margate-based community organisation People Dem Collective and performance platform Diasporas Now.
Movements from the Margins is a coming together—an embodiment of improvisation, intuition and experimentation in community organising as a collective spiritual practice.
CONCURRENT REALITIES
2024
Commissioned by Marina Landia to create soundtrack to Concurrent Realities, a futuristic art video about synergy between quantum computing and AI. It was inspired by the mysterious nature of quantum qubits and the very real promise of solving humanity’s problems with their help.
Film received an Audience Award at the Pebbles Underground festival
JESSE DARLING - MISERERE
2022
Commissioned by Didier Rochard, ILĀ led TRANS VOICES in working with 2023 Turner Prize Winner Jesse Darling’s MISERERE at St James’ Piccadilly to create improvised immersive textures with Cherif Hashizume.
SWAN SONGS
2021
Commissioned by Submerge Festival, Quays Culture and Goethe Institute to create a feature length electronic soundtrack for Cygnus - a ballet of robot swans made by Loomaland for Lightwaves Festival , Salford Quays.
10 songs for a lar
2021
Commissioned by The Kent Medway Museums NPO Partnership to compose DCIII - a song translating physical matter into audio waves by exploring the resonant properties of a 2000 year old Roman ‘Lar’ figurine.
WALK WITH AMAL
2021
Music for 9ft Syrian refugee puppet, Little Amal's welcome to the UK. Little Amal was created by Handspring Puppet Company (the makers of Warhorse) and the music was created in collaboration with young refugees from Kent Refugee Action Network. The project shines a light on the refugee crisis and has garnered critical acclaim internationally and across all major British newspapers and media.
transition
2020
Arts Council England’s prestigious Developing Your Creative Practice fund. A vocal app exploring of identity/gender in real-time using AI in reference to consciousness and the creative relationship with technology.
daffodil
2017 - 2020
PRS Momentum Funded Debut music film Daffodil released on NOWNESS in 2020. The film is a surreal examination of the moral implications of artificial intelligence through the lens of ILĀ’s imagination.
BRINGING THE INSIDE OUT - LIVING WORDS
2020
"Bringing The Inside Out" is a publication which includes the powerful words of people with a dementia, staff in care homes, and relatives. Voices featured are from across the whole of the UK, and the book focusses on the experience of the Covid pandemic in 2020. All of the pieces have been created through our Listen Out Loud method.
ILĀ, KELLY LEE OWENS & MANU DELAGO with LCV CHOIR LIVE AT EARTH, HACKNEY
2019
ACE funded collaboration with Kelly Lee Owens and Manu Delago at EartH Theatre Hackney with London Contemporary Voices and a double bass ensemble.
LIVING WARRORS
2019
The Living Warriors project was commissioned as part of an innovation funding initiative by NHS authorities in Kent and Medway, to explore why people had not taken their own lives, when they had thought that they would. Following its success, and the whole project winning The National Positive Practice in Mental Health Awards, Living Words was awarded further funding to make a series films launched on BBC ideas.
SEA FOLK SING
2019
Commissioned by Ideas Teset to create two songs collaboratively with marginalised communities in North Kent to improve wellbeing.
Sea Folk Sing is an Ideas Test + SparkedEcho production that toured Gravesend, Gillingham and Sheerness during 2-23 November 2019. It was commissioned by Ideas Test, the Creative People and Places organisation covering Swale and Medway.
ASH TO ASH
2018
Commissioned by The Ash Project to create a composition in response to Ash to Ash by Ackroyd and Harvey. The piece begins and ends with the sound of sap rising through an ash tree recorded by Alex Metcalf. One by one, the choir members sing melodic fragments from ‘O Frondens Virga’ , a chant by composer, philosopher and polymath Hildegard von Bingen written in the 11th Century; a time when ash trees were plentiful.