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Biography

Joseph Graydon is a composer from South Wales, based in London. His work explores experiential ambiguity, formlessness, fragile temporality, and perceptual instability through detailed acoustic writing. Drawing on processes of erosion and resonance, his work sustains material without predetermined direction, allowing form to emerge through time as continuity weakens, shifts, and reorients.

Influenced by visual art and phenomenological approaches to listening, his music creates immersive sonic environments that foreground shifts in perception and attention. His output spans solo, chamber, vocal, ensemble, and orchestral contexts.

His work has been performed and recorded by ensembles and musicians including ICTUS Ensemble Brussels, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, the Bozzini Quartet, UPROAR New Music Wales, Darragh Morgan, and Plus-Minus Ensemble. It has been presented at festivals such as Musiikin Aika, the Presteigne Festival, and Zutphen Cello Werken, and has been twice nominated for the ISCM World Music Days.

He is currently undertaking doctoral research in composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.