Raised in Adelaide, Australia, he now lives in London. He is Associate Professor in Composition at University of Southampton, and co-directs the new music ensemble Plus Minus with Joanna Bailie. He has composed works for groups such as asamisimasa, Calefax, Ensemble Offspring, EXAUDI, Ives Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Quatuor Diotima, Speak Percussion, and with percussionists Claire Edwardes and Håkon Stene, soprano Juliet Fraser, flautist Manuel Zurria and keyboardists Stephane Ginsburgh and Mark Knoop.