Jon's recently developed a series of collaborations with leading writers, creating live performance pieces for voice and sound score: 'Wig' with Patrick Gale, 'Come Me Pickney' with Valerie Bloom and 'Wish I Was Here' with acclaimed poet and novelist Jackie Kay. He was also a recent guest artist on Apples and Snakes' 'Incubate' project working with emerging spoken word performance artists.

Jon's also recently begun working with the audiobooks division of Ladbroke Radio and audiobooks producers Beautiful Sounds , creating bespoke soundtracks for projects ranging from the complete works of Shakespeare to classic stories by cult horror writer H P Lovecraft.

 

'..Working with these stories was like a fabulous cross between theatre, film, and reading - a new kind of form. I love the way that Jon runs with an idea, immersing himself in the words so much that he brings the story to life. It's all very subtle, like a book's pages opening on their own. There is something magical and mysterious about the whole process, the world of sound...Strangely too, I find reading them with the soundtrack a very different experience to reading them on my own. It's as if the sound allows me to lose myself and become my character. the sound is company, so I feel bolder, cheekier...' (poet and performer Jackie Kay, on the experience of collaborating with Jon on 'Wish I Was Here')