• Stuart has experimented in various forms of art since he was a young boy. Even at the age of 6 he was carrying around a camera all the time and taking pictures. He has had no formal training since, except to take GCSE art at school, resulting in a B grade.
• Since 1991 he has put pen to paper and written words, which found their way into the form of poems. To this day there are now over 700 poems in 13 volumes, available to read on stuartbowditch.co.uk. Sometimes he has been compelled to perform them live, to varying responses. One day he will compile them into an old fashioned book.
• In his teens he taught himself to play the drums and over the course of 10 years, he played in 3 bands of varying styles (Death Metal, Glam Rock and Punk), recorded a few cd’s and played numerous legendary gigs around London and the South East. But the time came to hang up his sticks and turning his hand to things more electronic.
• Using a laptop and USB keyboard, a world of rhythms unplayable by two human hands found themselves at his fingertips. But he quickly got bored of synthesized drum beats so he started making field recordings to capture sounds that he found around him every day. Taking sounds from around the house, industrial work places and remote outdoor locations, to name a few, make the core basis for works for songs he creates under the name Hybernation, as most of his programming work is done in the winter as he stays inside to keep warm. He has his first release out this November on Rednetic Records. Hybernation has played at many live events since 2005 including Arctic Circle, MultiVitamins, Sundown and Telephasic Workshop.
• This year Hybernation was asked to write the soundtrack to the film “The Duellists” commissioned by Futuresonic Festival, which explores the use of Parkour in Urban areas. It was filmed using only the in-house CCTV network in the Manchester Arndale shopping centre and the soundtrack was constructed entirely out of foundsounds recorded during the filming process in the shopping centre.
• Borrowing time on friend’s turntables he began to dj, and has been playing out since 2001, playing anything from ambient to electro, classical to electronica, grindcore to breakcore, what ever the occasion might call for. He’s had a regular show on local station Rise One 98.3FM since 2005 playing minimal and tech house to techno. Occasionally he is more experimental and creates a live alternative soundtrack to films or vj sets. He has recently also taught pupils how to VJ and DJ at Priory Special School in Southend-on-Sea and has CRB clearance.
• In 2003 he and poet Jamie Spraklen, gave birth to the Sundown Multimedia night in Southend-on-Sea, which runs bi-monthly to promote all forms of art including poetry, live music, sketch comedy, stand-up, improv, short films, dj sets, and new-media. To date it has played host to the crème of local talent alongside National favourites like John Hegley, Rachel Pantechnicon, Josie Long, Nathan Penlington, Liz Bentley, Polar Bear and many, many more.
• Telephasic Workshop is also an event started by Stuart with Paul Malone, in April 2006. Running monthly events it is a relaxed evening of quality electronics with a variety of entertainment from ambient, dub and electronica to electro and techno, alongside some of the best visuals east of London. It also plays host to lots of national and local talent including Dumi, Kristallo, Weirdgear, [relation], Rocket Number 9, Reason or Romanza, Sunosis, Zainetica, Jacen Solo and Robin Saville from Isan.
• Recently his efforts have been put into AWSoM (Ambient Weather Sound Machine) a project that uses the weather to play foundsounds in remote places. This project was funded by Arts Council England and is in collaboration with Damien Robinson and the Mediashed and has been installed at Two Tree Island, in the Thames Estuary, Sutton with Shopland Music Festival and part of "Interactive Screen 0.7 - User Friendly is Not Enough" at the BNMI in Banff, Alberta, Canada. 12-17th August 2007.

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