Keir Vine

Keir Vine is a London based musician and composer for Film and Theatre.


Instance is an 8 track LP conceived by Keir whilst in residency in the bucolic surroundings of Suffolk and completed in his London based studio. Using unlocked village churches, Keir took the opportunity to make a series of recordings that established the overall feeling for the compositions. It is this sense of crystalised moments and chance that directed the continuing ethos of the work.




‘I wanted to document things that had happened in real time that weren’t overly constructed so you could see the linear process that had occurred. To explore the way improvisation was like meditation in that you do nothing but follow the path your mind takes you down. In that sense improvisations were meditations and I spent time meditating each day before going straight into a solo improvisation. Some of which became the tracks you hear on Instance.


The initial intention of the LP was to have an electronic record that managed to convey a sense of the personal and tell a story as this can often be overwhelmed by aesthetics and function. While the record is now only partly ‘electronic’ in it‘s sound this intention is still the same. The EP vaguely charts the rise out of a depression of sorts and how those around you and your own humility are the strongest things you can rely on’.