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  • Adrian Moore and I recently hosted the Electronic Music Studies Network conference here in Sheffield. The conference coincided with Sound Junction and featured a keynote performance by Annette Vande Gorne and a keynote speech by Tatjana Mehner. Performances included works by Paul Fretwell, Dale Perkins, Neal Farwell, Alistair MacDonald, Robert Dow, Pete Stollery, alongside numerous…

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  • I’ve just found out that I’m due to perform in Arizona in early May. I’m currently looking for some funding to attend…

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  • I was very pleased to be included in a day about ‘authorship in music’ at the University of Oxford. My paper, called Upholding Authorship: rethinking the work-concept in light of contemporary compositional practice considered was in which we must rethink of conception of musical works rather than our understanding of authorship. The event was thoroughly…

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  • I recently gave a talk and presented a piece at IFIMPaC, Leeds. My paper abstract is pasted below. Corrective and Expressive Diffusion: interpreting acousmatic works in performance In recent years, the art of sound diffusion has received a great deal of critical and theoretical attention. Some of this attention has helped to rationalise the role…

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  • Some of you may be interested in taking part in the Leeds College of Music Summer School, which is dedicated to electroacoustic composition. Rob Bentall is running the 5-day event, which will focus upon the development of skills for composition. I shall be a guest composer on the final day, and look am looking forward…

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  • ICMC jury

    I am very honored to have been invited to judge musical works for the ICMC2015, which is taking place in Texas. Unfortunately, I am unable to attend the conference, but I’m looking forward to hearing the various pieces that have been submitted.

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  • REF results

    The Research Excellence Framework (REF) has recently released results in which 48% of The University of Sheffield’s music research was judged as ‘world-learning’ – this was the 4th highest of any music submission in the UK. I was particularly pleased that feedback referred to ‘outstanding electroacoustic compositions’.  

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  • Sound Junction – The University of Sheffield’s electronic music concert series – recently took place in Firth Hall. Concerts features works by staff and students, and attracted substantial audiences for all events. Andy Brown – a local photographer – took a series of excellent images of the event, including this one of us setting up:

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  • New CD release

    I’m pleased to announce that one times one has been released on Resonancias – a CD of prize-winning pieces from the Destellos Foundation, Argentina. The CD, which can be seen below, is available here: http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/cmmas_cd020/

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  • I am very pleased to announce that I’ve received a commission from The Electroacoustic Project, an organised run by Thomas Gorbach, in Vienna. The piece will be performed – in concert – on June 19th as part of Thomas’ festival of electronic music. By coincidence, the same piece will be published by the Destellos Foundation…

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