John Biddulph is a composer, performer, and sound artist working across electro-acoustic music, modular synthesis, and acoustic instrumentation. His practice explores timbre, resonance, microtonality, and deep listening through works that combine electronics with bass clarinet, saxophone, field recordings, voice, and found sound. Drawing on traditions of experimental music, free improvisation, and sonic art, his performances move between fragile near-silence and dense electronic textures, often unfolding through slow transformation and close attention to sonic detail.
His compositions and live works have been presented in festivals, galleries, theatres, and experimental music contexts across the UK and internationally, including projects connected to the Darwin Festival, Exile Festival, and performances linked to electro-acoustic and site-responsive practice. Recent works include Hibakusha (performed at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka), Threnody for Tehran, The Sonic Microscope, and Voyage of the Beagle, all of which foreground listening as both a musical and perceptual act.
Alongside his compositional work, Biddulph is an active live performer, creating immersive solo performances using modular synthesiser systems, live processing, and acoustic instruments. His work frequently engages with architecture, memory, environmental sound, and the unstable behaviour of electronic systems.
In 2026/27 he was awarded a prestigious Britten Pears Arts Award in recognition of his developing project The Sonic Microscope, an exploration of microscopic sonic change, timbral perception, and immersive listening practices.
Website – https://www.handmadesound.co.uk
Bandcamp – https://handmadesound.bandcamp.com
Instagram - @handmadesound
Performance
For A Tribute to Éliane Radigue at Cafe OTO, John will present a performance informed by Radigue’s L'Île re-sonante with its patient approach to duration, harmonic drift, and the physical presence of sound, using modular synthesis and other electronics to recreate and inhabit slowly evolving sonic states inspired by this specific electronic work.
