Lockdown Experiment by DLMDD

A group of distinguished musicians and artists from around the world have collaborated in a unique music experiment to compose their soundtrack to isolation.

The second installment of the experiment, which is unveiled today, was initiated during the COVID-19 lockdown by music producers Max De Lucia, Greg Moore and Sascha Darroch-Davies, co-founders of music and sound agency DLMDD. It sees the creation of one continuous piece of music by a host of prominent musicians and producers, each contributing 15 seconds of original music to the score each day, expressing their feelings towards isolation.

Chapter 2 of the Lockdown Experiment has amassed contributions from leading names internationally across the music industry, including:

Manu Delago - world's number one and Grammy-nominated Hang drum player + Bjork & Cinematic Orchestra, collaborator

Ayanna Witter Johnson - Mobo winning cellist, composer and singer

Alex Baranowski - Tony award-winning film composer - collaborations include Wes Anderson

Anna Phoebe - British violinist and composer who has worked with artists including Bob Dylan, Roxy Music and Nitin Sawhney

Vonda7 - German electro artist

Anil Sebastian – Singer, producer and co-founder of London Contemporary Voices

Olly Shelton - British producer, composer and pianist

Chris Green - musician and composer, one-half of modern-day balladeers GreenMatthews and a regular musician for Shakespeare's Globe

Shervin Shaeri - producer, composer and leader of music collective Mutant Jukebox