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This weekend, I’m part of a roundtable at KONTAKTE in Berlin. The event, which features an exciting range of talks and concerts, has a series of roundtable discussions on the Sat, and I’m sitting with Julia Mihály, DJ Sniff, and Beatriz Ferreyra to discuss performance in contemporary electronic music. Should be a lot of fun.
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I’m delighted to share some exciting news – I have been commissioned by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) to write a brand new piece of acousmatic music. The piece, which is to be around 20 minutes in duration, will be performed live in concert as part of the GRM’s festival series in May 2020.
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Metallurgic has been selected for Ai Maako festival in Chile, and shall be performed on 10th Oct 2019. I’m delighted to be selected as one of 9 for the festival, particularly since there were some 90 submissions in total. Once again, it looks like an amazing event…
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I’m very happy to share a new piece with you all – it is called Baltazar’s Adventure through the Great Machine. It was commissioned by Kelham Island Museum and Arts Enterprise, Sheffield, and responds to the various sounds recorded on location. Since those sounds were mainly of substantial engines and machines, my piece imagines the
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Get your headphones out – I have a new binaural mix of my monstrous 40-minute, 10-channel piece based on the number 10 Billion. It contains 10 billion sounds, but I’ve been unable to produce a meaningful stereo version… until the visit from the GRM last week, where they showed me an adapted spaces plug-in, which
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Last week, we were very happy to receive a visit from Philippe Dao and Emmanuel Richier from the GRM. In addition to being unbelivably lovely people, Philippe and Emmanuel presented on the history of the GRM, the interest in space, and the purpose-built space tools. They also presented some recent works in a small concert.
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Adam Stanovic was born in Leeds, now has residency at Sheffield. Here he is with Ténébrisme(IMED 18153) 1 showcasing very recent compositions 2015-17. He exhibits the now-commonplace concerns with transforming musical instruments, pieces of metal, audio travelogues and such like, but his feisty essays indicate he is trying to challenge the received wisdom of contemporary electro-acoustic music,
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I’m very happy to have been invited to perform my large-scale piece – 10 billion – at Sound IN Space (SINS) at The University of Derby. I shall be giving a talk about the piece in advance of the performance, focusing particularly on space and the approach to form. Should be a lot of fun.
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Last week, I had the pleasure of delivering a masterclass and concert on the beautiful island of Corfu. I was a great experience, and I am extremely grateful for the invitation, support and help of Dimitrios Savva, Andreas Mniestis, and Nikos Kanel. Hard to believe. but the white building in the center of this photos
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I’m very excited about next week, where I’ll be delivering a solo concert and masterclass in Corfu. I’ve pasted my abstract below… State Changes: composing with contrasting sound materials Over the past ten years, I have been developing a compositional method for work with contrasting sound materials. This started back in 2009 when I composed