Felix Taylor does things his own way. As a self-taught musician who originally wanted to be a filmmaker, he thinks of his compositions as “a series of connecting images and colours,” often incorporating field recordings and snippets of spoken word to conjure up a sense of place. “I’ve ended up in a world between music and visual fine arts because quite often I’m thinking about the context and the reason why I’m doing something as much as the music.”
For his latest piece, he didn’t just explore context — he waded right into it. Created to accompany the mudlarking exhibition currently showing at London Museum Docklands, Hydraulis saw Taylor donning wellies and accompanying a seasoned mudlarker on nightly excursions to riverbanks at Rotherhithe and Deptford.