Friday Lates music

Alice Boyd and Rachel Kitchlew are South London-based artists whose collaboration brings together harp, field recordings, synth and voice to create immersive, environmentally themed performances.

To mark this week’s Earth Day, responding to several landscape paintings in our collection, their live set combines original songs from both artists with new compositions, weaving in layered textures of harp and electronics alongside Alice’s field recordings of nightingales, underwater soundscapes and more. The result moves between folk, ambient and experimental sound, inviting audiences to listen more deeply to the natural world.

Alice is a musician, sound artist and audio producer whose work has been featured on BBC Radio 3, 4 & 6 and presented at venues including Kings Place, the Barbican Conservatory and the Eden Project’s Rainforest Biome, with work for the BBC, RSPB and Kew’s Wakehurst.

Rachel is a harpist and composer whose debut album, Flirty Ghost, was Album of the Month on FIP, with performances spanning Glastonbury, the Royal Albert Hall, Montreux and Montreal, and collaborations including Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) and Vegyn. Together, their work includes a release via Sounds Rights in collaboration with EarthPercent, supporting environmental charities through music.

In 2025, they supported Yann Tiersen on his European tour.