hARVEY cAUSON
Artist / Composer / Producer / Remixer
www.harveycauson.co.uk
Harvey Causon is a songwriter, vocalist, producer and composer based in East London. His restless curiosity has long been the force behind his deft and infectious sound. Since he was a child, music has been a way for him to explore and untangle the world around him, a raw form of communication to distil complex theories into mesmerising tracks.
Harvey’s albums, Square Breath, released November 2024, and Collective Body (Original Virtual Reality Experience Score) released in October 2025 are inspired as much by dance as they are music. While they sit in two different worlds sonically, both are graceful, atmospheric albums, with shifting ambient textures underscored by skittering grooves. As a listener, the walls of Causon’s mind close in around you, as his anxieties on everything from the worsening climate crisis to our increasing tech-dependency to a slowly-ending long term-relationship are laid bare.
COLLECTIVE BODY
Harvey created the score for the Collective Body experience which was designed to be generative, interactive and spacialised based on objects and movements in 360 - he then released this project as a 7 track album Collective Body (Original Virtual Reality Experience Score)
Collective Body is an interactive, virtual reality experience that encourages us to reconnect to ourselves and each other through movement.
Designed for 4 to 12 participants, this collective experience invites us to discover our movement identity - our signature ways of moving through the world - as a way to return to our embodied selves and to meet each other in a new way. After each session, participants’ movement avatars populate a large screen outside the headset, creating a participatory dancing landscape. Creating a link between the virtual and the real, the individual and the group, the installation illustrates a growing archive of a collective body in constant evolution. A decentralised dance installation is formed by and for the public.
The soundscape of Collective Body blends layers of harmony and dissonance using electronic and instrumental music, with evolving rhythms to accompany participants in their movement discovery.
“Music and dance are so intertwined for me” says Harvey Causon, the London-based composer who created the interactive music for Collective Body. His background as a dancer and curiosity in how we embody music informs his intuitive approach to composing danceable soundscapes.
At the same time, his research in quantum physics influences a generative music that is complex yet cohesive. Music both guides and interprets participants’ movements during the experience. While everyone hears the same base, as they move, each participant generates a unique musical theme, which describes them and accompanies their dancing. Interactive music and sound encourage a fully present experience that frees us from inhibition.
A VR experience written and directed by Sarah Silverblatt-Buser
Produced by Atlas V
In collaboration with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (NYC)
With the support of the CNC (France),
Ville de Paris and Columbia University (Barnard College)
Artistic Direction: Pierre Zandrowicz
Composer: Harvey Causon
VR Studio: Small Creative
UX Designer: Samuel Lecoeur
BROTHERS
In autobiographical film BROTHERS, commissioned by Flux Projects, Max Cookward translates the intimate and unconventionally beautiful bond him and his brother Lyall share, exploring through movement the nuanced emotions that arise from his role as Lyall’s carer. Overcoming the limitations of verbal communication by engaging through movement, body language, and touch, Max and Lyall have found a new means of connection that transcends language. Shot in rural Yorkshire, close to Max and Lyall’s hometown Leeds, BROTHERS considers what it is to love unconditionally, touching on themes of brotherhood, joy, and the feelings that accompany caring for someone vulnerable. Working with cinematographer Genevieve Reeves, whose own experience as a carer directs her approach behind the camera.
Harvey: I set out to express the notion that care comes with softness but also hardship, and that loving someone so much can be both brutal and beautiful. The second section of music evokes a sense of vastness and reverberance which adds to the spectacle of watching Max perform something so vulnerable to a live audience in the void of a dark stage.
Words taken from: https://www.nowness.com/series/diaries/brothers-max-cookward
On The Cut Of Three
A Short Film by Folu Odimayo
Filmmaker and Dancer Folu Odimayo’s dreamlike dance short On The Cut of Three is a fascinating exploration of myth and archetype, using movement as a means of exploring an individual’s fate and the threads of control that surround it. The story follows a lone figure known as the Stag who comes into contact with three Birds who control his growth and sense of discovery.
Composition and Sound Design by Harvey Causon
"Working with Composer and Musician Harvey Causon, we wanted to create a score that teetered between horror, nature, melancholy and nostalgia."
Premiered on Directors Notes and Shiny Awards
Directed, choreographed and produced by Folu Odimayo
Production Company Mount Foom
DOP and produced by Dominic Compton
Words taken from: https://directorsnotes.com/2024/09/05/folu-odimayo-on-the-cut-of-three/
THE LIONS ARE COMING
Set in a decaying nightclub, The Lions are Coming follows three individuals trapped in the aftermath of an invasion by a group of land-hungry dogs. Once a central place for their community, they find their home reduced to a wasteland and on the verge of redevelopment.
Inspired by the ideas of rebirth in the classic dance piece The Rite of Spring, Director Folu Odimayo uses the setting of a queer club to look at wider themes of gentrification and colonialism. The film explores the resilience of marginalised and oppressed communities in their fight for reclaiming their spaces and lands, and the power of dance as an engine for change, togetherness and joy.
Released on Sadlers Wells digital stage
Director and Choreographer: Folu Odimayo
Writer and Narrator: Folu Odimayo
Producer: Jahmarley Bachelor
DOP and Colourist: Anibal Castaño
Set and Costume Designer: Fanette Perrineau
Costume Designer and Wardrobe Assistant: Holly Holburn
Composer: Harvey Causon
Rehearsal Director: Maya Milet
1st AD: Genevieve Reeves
Gaffer: Sam Moss
1st AC: Will Brown
Production Assistant: Luigi Nardone
BTS Photography: Camilla Greenwell
Catering: Emily Perry
Editors: Sarah Vaughan-Jones and Genevieve Reeves
DIFFERENCE
Difference is an exploration of fragmentation. Just like the movements of a dancers body carve through space, this film experiments with how this differentiation can be pushed further with collage inspired cut up techniques. Working closely with the incredible Paleta we played with which movements would work best with each effect, through much testing we developed new ideas, which again changed once we entered the cutting room.
(Words by Balan Evans)
Director: Balan Evans
DOP: Lami Okrekson
Composer: Harvey Causon
Editor / Visual Effects: Balan Evans
Custom Look: Liquid Editions
Stylist: Kornelia Lukaszewicz
Stylist: Ewa Burak
Runner: Mischa Gatti
Colourist: Michael Pearce