• Something rather different, here… My wife (Inja Stanovic) and I have just published a journal article based on her Leverhulme-funded research project into historic recordings. As part of this project, we made a series of recordings using original Edison phonographs and wax cylinders, in order to understand how a series of historic recordings (made by

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  • Baltazar’s Adventure through the Great Machine shall be performed at NoiseFloor, Staffordshire University, this year. The whole event is being moved online, with the full list of performers to be announced on the festival website soon: https://noisefloor.org.uk/2021-agenda/

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  • Last night, Ralph Hopper presented a special edition of his radio show – Acoustic Frontiers – in which all of the pieces were composed in the University of Sheffield Sound Studios (USSS). The full programme (pasted below) featured works by undergraduate, MA and PhD students (past and present), alongside a piece by me and my

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  • I have just found out that my journal article – Composing the North: a musical study of identity, transformation and reflection – has been published by Nordlit and is now available on their website (with a print version due in the new year): https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit My paper considers the compositional context surrounding Foundry Flux (a piece

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  • Baltazar’s Adventure through the Great Machine has been named as a finalist at Prix Russolo – an international competition for electroacoustic music. It’s a great set of finalists, and I’m very happy to join my friends and colleagues, particularly Louise Rossiter, Dimitrios Saava and Joao Pedro Olivera. The finals involve some 10 concerts between now

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  • New book…

    …come VERY soon… co-edited by John Dack, Tansy Spinks and myself…

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  • 2020 hasn’t been a great year for concerts – most of mine were cancelled or moved online, leaving just a few performances this year. I was very happy to see that France re-opened following lock-down, and was delighted that Would be to Seek could be performed at Festival Futura, Crest, on 22nd August. Sadly, I

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  • Congratulations to Mario Cáceres, a current MA Student at Sheffield, for his successful funding application to Becas Chile Doctorado en el Extranjero – the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile (ANID). Mario shall be starting his PhD with me in Oct 2020, working on the integration of electroacoustic and popular music, exploring forms,

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  • GRM Commission

    AMAZING NEWS! My GRM commission (scheduled for a residency in April 2020, followed by the premiere in May 2020) was cancelled due to the Covid virus. I have just received news that the commission shall be repeated in 2021… I CAN’T WAIT!!!

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  • A couple of weeks ago, BBC radio 3 broadcast my piece, Metallugic, on the ‘new music show’. I was happy to listen, particularly since Kate Molleson (the host of the show) understood the intended musical ‘joke’ that the piece represents… For anyone based the UK, the show can be heard here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jg8c 

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