Tim Parkinson (b.1973) has consistently pursued an independent path, seeking to engage with whatever it means today to be a functioning composer in the world. His work has been described as "reconstructing music from the ground up", a prefigurative music living in the present environment of data blizzard, discarded consumption, recycled packaging, disused signage, and the hybrid forms and deserted spaces left in the wake of the technological rampage and information deluge. He has been associated with other British-based independent voices of the same generation, such as Bailie, Harrison, Kontz, Lely, Miller, Newland, Saunders, Shlomowitz, Whitty, and is a long-standing figure on the London scene.