• 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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  • Radio plays

    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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  • EPOH in Dubai

    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:

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  • I am delighted to announce that my chapter ‘Beyond the Fixity Fallacy’ has been published in Sonic Art: Theories and Practices – a book Edited by Mine Dogantan-Dack and John Dack (published by CSP). The chapter started out life as a conference paper at MuSA in Karlsruhe, back in 2014, and was written up as…

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  • I am delighted to announce that I have received another prize at SYNC, Russia, as Winner of Degree II (Electroacoustic Music) in Category B (professionals) SYNC2018. The prize is for my latest piece – Helix: Circle of Fifths – which was finished but a few months ago. I shall post an excerpt on here soon.…

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  • I am delighted to have received my certificate from Beijing, following my Honourable Mention for Would be to Seek:

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