Designed and made by Henry Dagg, the gliss anglais is a de/reconstruction of the cor anglais. This injects instability and precarity into the new instrument’s response to gesture, breath and touch. It  frees me from the oboe’s restrictive keywork and extends the sonic landscape available to me.

I played the gliss anglais with Khabat Abas other improvisers in  Sulaymaniah, Iraq in 2022 as part of Space 21 Festival. We responded to the spaces we occupied and the vestigial sediment they held. In The Red Prison we played together for over three hours without pause in and around the women's cell. My film,  Carceral Scrivings is a powerful homage to that experience and a testament to the torture endured by women held in The Red Prison when Saddam Hussein was in power. 

We performed The Lost Place, an improvsed homage to those women and spaces, in the abandoned cultural centre in Sulaymaniah and again at Free Range Canterbury in 2023.

My writing on the thinking behind and development of this instrument is published by The Orpheus Instituut. Read it  here; Instrument de/reconstruction as a feminist practice.​