Author Archives: Leonard Maassen

I am very pleased to announce that my project Heart of a Glacier was chosen as one of 20 awardees to be supported by LOM Audio in 2023, from 170 proposals from more than 50 countries around the world. LOM+you is an initiative supporting individuals or organizations in projects addressing climate change, environmental protection andContinue reading ““Heart of a Glacier” / LOM+you Award”

Leonard Maassen has received the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Dissertation prize The Rose Lawrence Horner’s Award for the installation project ‘we change’. The installation was realised in 2022 as part of artistic research focusing on environmental change in creative practice. The awarding body wrote: “Leonard Maassen […] produced a really interesting piece ofContinue reading “The Rose Lawrence Horner’s Award”

I’m delighted to announce I have been producing a new EP with singer-songwriter Gigi Williams, which will be released over the coming months as a series of four singles. Gigi sang on the Neo Arc track ‘Liquid Sunlight’ in 2022, so I’m very excited to have been working with her again. In the meanwhile, youContinue reading “2023 EP with Gigi Williams”

Since the release of the first Neo Arc single in February 2022, the tracks have been streamed over 800,000 times! In Spotify’s 2022 roundup, we were placed on the playlists ‘Jazz UK Class of 2022’ and ‘Fresh Finds Jazz 2022’.

Footsteps is out now!! I had a lot of fun producing this track. We recorded the rhythm section (drums, bass, piano) live, before running separate sessions for guitar, vocals, backing vocals, strings and horns. The string and horn session was especially interesting – I ran the recording session in the Silk Street Music Hall, whichContinue reading “Neo Arc – Footsteps”

Check out Austin Turner’s animation for the last track from the Lillies EP, Nooks! The video consists of night time long exposure shots he took on his Olympus OM-4Ti in Delamere Forest: “The animation was created by reusing a sequence of 36 frames shot on Ilford HP5+. Each exposure lasted roughly 3 minutes, giving meContinue reading “nooks – animation by austin turner”