Tim Exile

Buddhist, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Musician, Performer, Single, Startup, Technologist, World traveler

Tim Exile is an electronic music improvisor, composer and producer alongside being an inventor and maker of electronic musical instruments. He has made critically acclaimed albums for Warp records, toured the stages of every continent and released his own software creations in collaboration with music tech giant Native Instruments to outstanding commercial success. He has also collaborated with TED alumni Imogen Heap and Thomas Dolby. With a deep motor-neurone relationship with sound from playing the violin from age 5, at 12 years old he discovered the enthralling sound world of bootleg rave tapes. A quick but frustrating flirtation with DJing germinated his vision of how sound could be touched and shaped into music live and in the moment. He taught himself to program in his spare time in between studying a Philosophy degree and writing his early drum & bass 12"s and went on to create his first performance software instrument in 2004. Determined to bring spontaneity, vulnerability and interactivity to a genre of music characterised by long-laboured, highly polished studio production, Tim set up live online venue timexile.tv for streaming live crowd-sourced performances, demoing this live on stage at TEDx London 2011.

Touching and arranging natural and unnatural sounds in a natural way; great code, workflow and design; connections beyond words; navigating this beautiful mess.