Biography

Ruby is a Violinist, Composer & Sound Artist. She creates instrumental soundscapes that are far beyond the realm of traditional playing, weaving in environmental sound & electronics. She draws upon many different styles such as contemporary classical, folk & electronic music. Ruby’s music is eclectic but strangely unique and her performances charged with emotional power and nuance.

Ruby’s debut album Murmurations, released in February 2010, presents a selection of pieces inspired by nature and natural forms. Her interests have developed into building a relationship between the audible world audible and her creative practice. This feeds into her performance, composition & audio-visual work.

Ruby’s film & directorial debut, ‘The Sea Wrote It’ was shown at the Manchester Lift Off Film Festival as well as the Altpitch festival & won their artist commssion award.

Her audio-visual work, Edgeland, was shown at the Alt PItch festival in 2021 & installed at the 1st Sono Electro festival, Electro Studios in 2023.

Her album ‘Overheard’, was released in April 2022, and draws upon field recordings and weaves in instrumentation & electronics. The album seeks to unravel the connections between human pressence & nature in response to the climate crisis.

Her EP ‘Underheard’ was released in February 2023, which continues the Human experience of the climate catastrophe, along with memory, loss and our place within nature itself. Both were produced & mixed by Ruby herself.

Ruby is currently working with Explore the Arch Theatre Company as a mentor, arts facilitator & associate director. Her most recent commission, May ‘22 is a soundtrack & sound design for Marie In The Margins, installed in Battle Abbey, Hastings. A film exploring the forgotten workforce of twelfth-century female scribes & illustrators. As part of their festival ‘Town Expliores a Book’, Ruby made an original sound piece ‘Hear My Tree’ April ‘21 and ‘Shoonaki’ in April ‘22.

She has written for Film, and collaborated with Theatre and Dance, and played with acts such as Sam Lee, Owen Pallette, The Unthanks, Cosmo Sheldrake, Zoe Keating and the late Sinead O’Connor & John Martyn. She was artist in residence for the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast, (2008) and also realeased the EP ‘Sussex Sessions’ with the esteemed Isobel Anderson in 2014. Her film collaboration with Dance United was accepted into the Fastnet Film Festival and Encounters Film Festival. Ruby’s track The Wait, used for the film “We all have a tree in us” by Turner nominated Project Artworks. It was scheduled to be shown at the British Film Institute (BFI) on 21 April 2020.