• I’m very happy to announce that I was, once again, a finalist in Musica Nova’s composition competition. My piece, Baltazar’s Adventure through the Great Machine, was finalist alongside Joao Pedro Olivera, with prizes and mentions going to Louise Rossiter, Giles Gobeil, and Alex Buck.

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  • Talk in Krakow

    A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of travelling to Krakow to attend the International Confederation of ElectroAcoustic Music (ICEM/CIME) annual general meeting – where I represented the British ElectroAcoustic Network (BEAN). During the event, I gave a talk with the following title: The Acousmatic Musical Performance: a compositional ‘telos’. Here is a nice photo…

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  • Last week, I had the great pleasure of joining Pete Stollery in Aberdeen, where we presented a concert of Francis Dhomont’s music, alongside pieces of our own. I played Baltazar’s Adventure. The original plan was for Dhomont to attend to present his own works. Following his 93rd birthday, however, he decided not to travel and…

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  • Round-table in Berlin

    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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  • A visit from the GRM

    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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  • A cool review

    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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