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I have just returned from Linz, Austria, where I gave a concert of my own works, alongside those of my PhD students and my colleague Adrian Moore. I was the guest of Andreas Weixler, who has realised brilliant facilities for electroacoustic music at the Bruckner Private University and was extremely generous with his time and…
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Last week, Adrian Moore and I gave a talk and concert at DMU, Leicester. The talk – which was shared – included a discussion of our recent research into the performance of acousmatic music. The concert was a lot of fun – strangely, it is the first time that Adrian and I have shared a…
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Would be to Seek is to be performed in concert at DIFFRAZIONI 2019, Florence. It has been scheduled during the Multimedia Concert III on March 27, at 05.00pm. The venue of the event is the Concert Hall of Le Murate.Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Piazza delle Murate, Firenze. The Diffrazioni team were extremely kind and thoughtful in their…
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A lot of my time, this year, shall be invested in the participation of various jury duties – after recently sitting on the jury of the Metamorphoses competition of Musique et Recherches, I have just completed reviews for the ICMC, I am about to adjudicate for the Destellos Competition – Argentina – and the International…
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I am extremely proud to have been one of the three organising members for Electroacoustic Music in Great Britain: past/present/future. The event, which took place in London on 26th/27th Jan, had around 100 people registered, including many of the world’s leading eletroacoustic composers/thinkers – such as Trevor Wishart, Denis Smalley, Jonty Harrison, Leigh Landy, Simon…
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Yesterday, I received news that my paper proposal has been accepted for the Music and Philosophy Study Group run by the Royal Musical Association. The group, which have a biannual conference, are meeting at Kings College, London, on 11th and 12th July. My abstract – a play on Roman Ingarden’s well-known book – is: The…
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I’m delighted to discover that I’ve had quite a lot of pieces played on the radio, recently, in quite a few different countries: January 21, 2019 Metallurgic (2015) Acoustic Frontiers / CKCU 93.1 FM (Canada) January 7, 2019 Metallurgic (2015) Fantaasia / Klassikaraadio (Estonia) January 3, 2019 Metallurgic (2015) Amplitudes: Radio Campus Paris…
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Vishal Shah, my friend and colleague based in Berlin, has been in touch to tell me that his animation short – EPOH – shall be housed in a gallery space in Dubai, from 4th Feb until 5th March. I composed all of the sound for this animation, so it is really nice to hear that…
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On 4th Jan, my piece – Foundry Flux – will be performed at the San Francisco Tape Music festival. I’m delighted to be included in this long-standing festival for the first time, and only wish that I could be there…
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Yesterday, I received a copy of my certificate from SYNC2018 – a competition held in Russia, where I received a prize for my piece Circle of Fifths (part of a planned larger cycle of works under the title ‘Helix). It’s a very beautiful certificate, and I am honoured to receive it: