Some upcoming events through the first few months of 2015 … Weston Olencki, trombone. permutations011415, Theatre of Yugen, San Francisco, California. January 14, 2015. Because they mark the zone where the force is in the process of striking Ekmeles. Dimenna Center, New York, 23 January 2015. A painter of figures in rooms Jeffrey Gavett. Dark Music Days festival, Iceland, …
Several miscellaneous autumn activities to report … 20 October 2014 Guest Lecture, Composers Forum, Magdalen College, University of Oxford 21 November 2014 Weston Olencki, trombone, Fonema Consort, Canvas Theater, Chicago. songs only as sad as their listener 28 November 2014 Guest Lecture, ‘Performing Voice‘ symposium, Hochschule de Künste Bern/Hochschule für Musik Basel, Switzerland.
Over the last several weeks, I’ve been working with the brilliant Chilean guitarist Diego Castro towards the premiere of my piece The Pleats of Matter, for electric guitar. The premiere is scheduled for mid-February 2015 at the Electric Spring Festival in Huddersfield, almost exactly 10 years to the day from the point at which I started …
The highlight of my summer activities was a research exchange and recruiting trip to Singapore and Malaysia in early September along with my University of Huddersfield colleague Liza Lim and Seth Woods, who is a final-year PhD student in Contemporary Music Performance. The trip included lectures, masterclasses, private lessons, concerts, and meetings with representatives from Yong …
Ryan Muncy, saxophone. Boston Conservatory. March 26, 2014. asphyxia Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass. Coup d’Oeil Art Consortium, New Orleans. April 12, 2014. The Crutch of Memory Ryan Muncy, saxophone. West Virginia University. April 16, 2014. asphyxia Argento Ensemble. Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY. May 2 & 4, 2014. the green is where (world premiere) Leo Birtwhistle, voice. Rymer Auditorium, …
Mabel Kwan plays ten monophonic miniatures for solo pianist at a concert curated by Ray Evanoff as part of the MATA Interval 7.1 programme. The concert is 20 December 2013 at Issue Project Room in New York. Ray has also produced an interesting blog that describes the thinking behind the concert: http://matafestival.org/2013/interval-7-1-blog-2/ The mam.manufaktur ensemble plays works TBC …
Very pleased that the ELISION ensemble, conducted by Carl Rosman, will give its second performance of And the scream, Bacon’s scream, is the operation through which the entire body escapes through the mouth on 18 March 2014 at Carriageworks, Sydney. The programme also includes works by my Huddersfield colleague Liza Lim and two former Huddersfield students, Timothy McCormack …
A little over 10 years ago, I wrote a piano piece in large part because I couldn’t fathom writing a piano piece. My work at the time—and I suppose this continues to be the case—was primarily about transitional states, about instability of pitch and timbre, about sliding between various unstable points (from one ambiguous state …
Ryan Muncy. Includes asphyxia. New Focus Recordings, September 2013.
I have just sent off the final proof for the book I have edited with my colleague Aaron Einbond, titled Noise In And As Music and published by Huddersfield University Press. The book will be formally launched at the Noise In And As Music Symposium at the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) at the University …