Jonathan Emeruwa

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Jonathan Emeruwa is an experimental composer, music archivist, mental health counsellor and sound engineer for the Ambientscape Project. He is an avid record collector particularly of African, indigenous and world music, as well as British and European wax cylinders. As a composer he is influenced by sacred, shamanic and folkloric songs, and is a research fellow with the British Library where his area of interest is in 'Melodic arrangement and its affect on memory for the healing of past trauma, separation and loss.' He has studied at both The Tavistock Clinic and The University of East London and works with the Children’s Mental Health Charity, Place2Be.

Relevant Links

Angakut Recordings (Composer Website)

Therapy Lives

Place2Be

Published Articles

Carry me Home Reattaching to the Self: Melodic Arrangement in African American Spirituals and Early 20th Century Classical Compositions. (October 2024, British Library, Sound and Vision).

Transmogrifying the passage of time: A Minimalist Approach to Recording Bat Calls. (December 2024, Journal of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society).