Summer 2013 performances and upcoming publications

A few upcoming performances on the docket: The London Contemporary Music Festival features performances of What then renders these forces visible is a strange smile (2007-08) and songs only as sad as their listener (2006), 2 August, 7.30pm, in performances by Peter Yarde Martin (trumpet) and David Roode (trombone). On 7 September, Jeffrey Gavett performs I, purples, spat …

EXPOSURE_EXAUDI

EXAUDI. James Weeks, conductor. Includes:  A painter of figures in rooms Recorded at Tonbridge School Chapel, August 2012. Supported by Huddersfield University Research Fund and CeReNeM.  HCR06, May 2013.

Upcoming Performances – Spring 2013

There are four upcoming performances of I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips in April.  Jeffrey Gavett performs the work at Southern Illinois University (5 April), OpenSound, Boston (27 April), and Framingham State University (29 April). Carl Rosman performs the work at University of Huddersfield (15 April). EXAUDI performs A painter of figures in rooms at Only Connect Theatre, Cubitt Street, London …

I am an experimental composer

I presented the following paper at the COMPOSITION‐EXPERIMENT‐TRADITION conference at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent in February 2012. Because the text is largely speculative, informal, and anecdotal, it isn’t particularly appropriate for a more scholarly publication, but it is one that I nevertheless wanted to make publicly available, so I am posting it here. The middle …

Upcoming Performances – winter 2013

Jeffrey Gavett, voice. Ekmeles. Roulette, Brooklyn, New York.  January 24, 2013.  I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips ELISION (Ben Marks, trombone).  University of Huddersfield.  February 4, 2013.  songs only as sad as their listener szene instrumental. Radio Ljubljana, Slovenia. February 6, 2013. songs only as sad as their listener Ryan Muncy, saxophone.  University of Huddersfield.  March 11, …

Current Activities – December 2012

A brief update on my activities this month … I am currently working on two articles, one on my two string quartets for an upcoming Contemporary Music Review issue edited by Dan Albertson and Richard Toop, and the second outlining the approach to geographical constraint schemata and multi-dimensional gestural modeling in my Second String Quartet and A painter of figures …

A painter of figures in rooms (NMC)

New Music 20×12.  Compilation of the twenty works commissioned by the PRSF New Music 20×12 project as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.  Includes live recording of A Painter of Figures in Rooms, EXAUDI. Recorded by BBC Radio 3. NMC, digital download only. August 2012. Available here.

The Crutch of Memory (NEOS 11201)

A portrait CD of my work from 1999–2009, performed by ELISION Ensemble. Predominately solo works (and one duo), and outlining the development of my work with tablature. Liner notes by Evan Johnson. Includes:  The Crutch of Memory; Being itself a catastrophe, the diagram must not create a catastrophe; Because they mark the zone where the force is …

transference (HCR02)

ELISION / Manuel Nawri, conductor.  Includes:  memento/memorial (Peter Veale, oboe & musette (two versions)); And the scream, Bacon’s scream, is the operation through which the entire body escapes through the mouth (or, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion). Recorded at Radio Bremen Sendesaal. HCR02, November 2010.  Available online here.