TO US.S..S… released on Cero Records

In 2023, several of my pieces were selected and performed at MUSLAB, in Ecuador and Argentina. From those, To US.S..S… was subsequently selected to be part of a collective release on Cero Records. The release had now been… well… released, and is available in both digital and physical formats. Here is an online link to…

Finalist at PRIX CIME

Baltazar’s Adventure through the Great Machine has just been named as a finalist at PRIX CIME 2023 – the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music’s biannual competition. With over 500 applications to the competition, I’m extremely proud to have made it to the final stages of selection… and BRAVO to Andrew Lewis for winning the main…

First Prize – Computer Space

I’m super happy to have received First Prize at the Computer Space Digital Arts Awards for my piece Hymn without Words. Computer Space is a non-commercial international computer art forum, which includes Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Web Design, Interactive Arts, and Computer and Electronic Music. With 33 past editions, and more than 20 000 participants (firms,…

Special Prize Certificate

Well, it’s a bad photo… but a beautiful certificate from the 3rd Ise-Shima International Composition Competition, where To US.S..S… received the Special Prize!

Special Prize in Japan

To US.S..S… is proving to be a very popular piece – it has just received a Special Prize in the 3rd Ise-Shima International Composition Competition, Japan. There were quite a few pieces that received a Special Prize this year – but from 411 submissions, I’m very proud to have been one of them. I’m equally…

ULJUS Prize Winner

Back in May, my piece, To US.S..S…, received a prize in the ULJUS Composition Competition 2023. The competition, based in Serbia, has four categories for compositions; I received the only prize in the ‘professionals’ category. There were over 300 submissions, so I’m really proud that this piece was chosen. I only wish that I could…

USA tour

Last week, I had the enormous pleasure of visiting the USA, where I gave various talks, concerts and workshops. I started with a talk/concert at Stanford University, followed by three days in Santa Barbara – where I delivered a masterclass, lecture and concert. To end the visit, I travelled to the East coast, where I…

Trust in Early Recordings…

I have just delivered an invited talk on my other research interest… early recordings. The talk considered some of reasons why the trustworthiness of early records are so regularly questions. Here is the abstract: Over the past few years, I have arrived at the conclusion that one should feel genuine sympathy for any researcher that…