Taylor Nuttall
Dumfries & Galloway
Since relocating to Dumfries & Galloway, Taylor has concentrated on improvisation, using software‑based modular systems and iPad performance tools alongside Ableton Live. This focus typically yields ambient, generative soundscapes. He also performs with Sonic Labs, an improvisational collective based at The Stove in Dumfries.
Taylor Nuttall is a composer, artist, and sound designer who deliberately avoids confining himself to any single genre. His work blends a wide array of influences, incorporating found sounds and other personal material. Underlying all of his creations are recurring themes of environment, sustainability, and climate change.
‘Is This Just One Day’, a 30 minute evocative soundscape was produced after winning a commission for the Sounds of Silence program by Aerial Festival, launched in September 2020. Taylor has been involved in a number of collaborative projects most recently working with artist and curator Dominic Smith to produce ‘Triangulation’ an EP released by Etched Traumas in August 2021.
After working extensively in the arts for many years leading multimedia arts organisation Folly and as a founding director of Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Taylor is currently a board member for Full of Noises, a sound art and new music organisation based in a public park on Cumbria’s Furness Peninsula.
Having recently moved from the Lake District to Dumfries and Galloway Taylor Nuttall lives on a small holding near Castle Douglas with a small flock of sheep.
Taylor Nuttall trained as a visual artist and has an early exhibition career with artworks featuring painting, print, sculpture, photography and installation. In the late 80’s and early 90’s he began to explore the potential of creativity using computer technologies. As well as exhibiting these works in traditional gallery spaces this led to a number of pieces being designed to be experienced online as virtual artworks. These virtual artworks also began to explore the use of sound. Taylor is now working with sound, drawing upon composition and musical skills he learned from playing piano and classical guitar as well as re-learning more robustly about sound design, composition and music theory.
'Is this just One Day?' released September 2020, a new commision for Aerial Festival. https://aerialfestival.com/
Without Visual - April 2021 - https://www.instagram.com/surmise_collective/
EP - ‘Triangulation’ released by Etched Traumas -August 2021 - https://archive.org/details/et132_tn_and_ds_triangulation
The Stove Inprovisation showcase, Market of Possibilities, Dumfries 2023
Hidden Gems Festival, Dumfries 2024
FON 15th Anniversary Concert, Piel House, Barrow in Furness 2024
Sound Lab Showcase, The Stove, Dumfries 2024
Dark Space Planetarium, Kirkudbright 2025
Cryptic Nights, CCA, Glasgow 2025
Tracks played on:
BBC Radio Introducing - BBC Radio Cumbria
Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cumbria
Space is the Place Radio Show - Cando FM - @SpaceisthePlace
The Magic Window - MadWaspRadio - https://madwaspradio.com/
Hello Goodbye Radio Show - Resonance FM - https://hellogoodbyeshow.com/
Star & Shadow Radio https://soundcloud.com/tynesidesounds
Eagle Nest Radio - @eaglesmusicnest
Profile image credit: Iona Wheeler
@digitaylor
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