• Ten Billion

    I have just finished a 40-minute work in 10 channels of audio… It is called ‘Ten Billion’. A short stereo excerpt can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/adam-stansbie/ten-billion-excerpt The programme note is: Ten Billion The United Nations recently predicted that the world population will exceed ten billion by the year 2050. If this prediction is correct, a staggering population boom…

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  • For the past two weeks, I have been resident composer at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, after winning the Klingler ElectroAcoustic Residency. I am delighted to announce that tomorrow evening, I shall be delivering my KEAR lecture, during which I shall discuss and perform a new, large-scale for 10 channels. I shall post excerpts on…

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  • I have just found out that my new journal article – on the digitization of music – has been published by the Swedish Journal of Musical Research. My paper starts off by considering the philosophical ramifications of digitization. It goes on to reconsider our understanding of recordings, and their relationship to performances/works. The complete article…

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  • Last week, I finished a short residency in New York. The residency, hosted by Mise En – a contemporary music ensemble – enabled me to start a large-scale work for piano and fragmented tape which will, hopefully, be completed by the end of the summer.

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  • And… I’m not sure how long the link will be active… but for the moment, you can listen to the full programme: Here

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  • Ctrl c will be performed at Sonic Waves, Milan, on 17th March. The three concerts look excellent, and the acousmonium very interesting… For more details, see: here

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  • Foundry Flux has been selected for SoundMIGRATIONS and will be presented online alongside various performances throughout 2018. More details to follow: here

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  • I am delighted to announce that the international jury for the Klingler ElectroAcoustic Residency selected me as their resident composer for 2018. I shall be traveling to Ohio at some point between Jan and May to compose a new multi-channel work using the studio shown below. Previous composers on the programme have included Robert Normandeau,…

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  • Another composer event taking place at Sheffield University: The Centre for New Music at Sheffield (CeNMaS) is pleased to announce the call for the Sound Agendas Composers’ Conference 27th-29th April 2018 open to composers in and outside academia. Presentations are invited in the form of: • a 20-minute Paper with or without slides/audio/video/handouts (submit a 300-word abstract) • a 5-minute…

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  • On Nov 7th, I shall be talking at an event in Leeds called: Aesthetics of Computer Music: Changes in the Nature and Reception of Music. The event, which looks at some of the various ways in which computer music has challenged established notions of creativity, composition, performance, and authorship, is sponsored by the Centre for Aesthetics at…

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