On Sunday, I was at Resident Studios in north London with Tai and Becky Azeez, working on the video for their drum&bass track ‘Lead Me’.

You might be questioning why an electronic track would have a video with acoustic string quartet and grand piano … Tai (just visible at the piano above) is (of course, since he hired me … :-p) a more than usually discerning electronic producer, and refuses to compromise on using actual live string playing (and, as it turns out, acoustic piano) on his tracks, rather than building them out of patch banks and MIDI triggers.

The quartet – Vaiva Tamosiunaite and Virag Zsoldos violins, me on viola, Amber Heard cello – had in fact recorded the string loops (and, in Vaiva’s case, various violin lead licks, fills and solos) for this track a little while back, so it was rather a satisfying bookend to be able to come back and input into the visual representation too, after a lot of editing and production!

Watch this space for a release date …