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Last week, my colleague and friend – Adrian Moore – presented a series of pieces in Montreal at the Akousma festival. Works by Adrian and myself were accompanied by some of our PhD students, including: Alejandro Albornoz, Dimitris Savva and Chris Bevan. Here is a nice photo of Adrian, playing with his balls: For more…
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Foundry Flux has been shortlisted among 42 entries for a concert at Relincha Festival, which will take place on Saturday 28 November in Valdivia, Chile. The festival has a very nice video to advertise itself, which you find on their website: http://relinchafestival.com/
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I have just found out that I received 2nd Prize for my piece Metallurgic at SYNC.2015 – a biannual composition competition based in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Metallurgic was composed specifically for this competition, and will be premiered during the SYNC.2015 festival. More details can be found on their website: http://yeams.org/en/node/290
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This Friday, a concert of music based on the notions of Mass and Motion will take place at the University of Bristol. Unfortunately, I cannot attend, but two of my piece – Twin Cities and Foundry Flux – will be performed. For more information, see: here
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Last night, Adrian Moore present a concert at Birmingham Conservatoire. It featured three of Adrian’s pieces, and my new piece – Foundry Flux. For more details, see: http://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/concert-diary/legacies-in-technology-xiv-iv-13-10-2015
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Thomas Gorbach performed Foundry Flux in concert last night, as part of the Acousmatic Transcendence II concerts run by The Electroacoustic Project. Sadly, I couldn’t attend. However, I have performed on Thomas’ acousmonium in the past, and I’m sure that he programmed some great music and performers. For more details: http://www.theelectroacousticproject.at/
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My paper, titled The Imaginary Museum of Electroacoustic Works has been selected for the CIME ICEM conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Here is the abstract: In many respects, the term ‘work’ seems entirely inappropriate for any discussion that focuses on electroacoustic music; originally applied to scored, instrumental music, the term ‘work’ developed in an entirely different…
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Tomorrow night, Foundry Flux will be performed at INTER #3 in Glasgow. Details of the concert can be found here: INTER#3 The event looks great and I wish that I could be there to listen. This is how the INTER series is described: “These nights are about creating a focused, public listening context for deep…
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I was recently commissioned to produce a new piece of acousmatic music for a sheffield-based project focussing on Furnace Park. The small patch of land, once home to an 18th Century foundry, was the subject of a sonic investigation and a sound-bank was created, involving recordings from in and around the park. My piece, Foundry Flux,…
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I recently presented a paper and piece at MuSA (Music and Sound Art) in Karlsruhe. Once again, the conference was a lot of fun, and included an interesting selection of papers on varied topics. My own paper considered the compositional methods employed in the creation of acousmatic, electroacoustic music, and questioned whether our discussion of…