The tuba player and composer Robin Hayward, born in Brighton, England in 1969, has been based in Berlin since 1998.
He has introduced revolutionary playing techniques to brass instruments, initially through the discovery of the ‘noise-valve’, and later through the development of the first fully microtonal tuba in 2009. In 2012 he invented the Hayward Tuning Vine, originally as a visualisation of the harmonic space implicit within the microtonal tuba. His approach to the tuba has been documented in the solo albums Valve Division and Nouveau Saxhorn Nouveau Bass and in this case States of Rushing.