I was recently working on an application that centred on the Huddersfield Contemporary Records (HCR) CD label as part of my new role as Director of the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) at Huddersfield, which I formally take on starting in August. One of the pages in the application was a list of …
Over the course of the last week or so I’ve made a fairly significant upgrade to the website to be able to better handle the purchase of scores. The new site structure streamlines purchases by integrating an e-commerce platform (the excellent and free WooCommerce WordPress plug-in, supplemented by several additional plug-ins and a bit of tweaking …
Last autumn, the filmmaker Angela Guyton approached me to make some videos about/around my work The wreck of former boundaries. In her initial proposal, she was interested in probing some of the issues around creativity, creative blockages, and some of the practicalities of ‘making’ that I’d been talking about in various settings over the last few years. We’ve …
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The wreck of former boundaries—ELISION at 30. Peter Evans and Tristram Williams, trumpets. ELISION (Carl Rosman, clarinet; Joshua Hyde, alto saxophone; Benjamin Marks, trombone; Daryl Buckley, electric lap steel guitar; Joan Wright, contrabass). Part of the 30th Anniversary celebrations of the ELISION Ensemble, supported through a generous grant to the Centre for Research in New …
Performances Sarah Saviet, violin. Spectrum NYC. January 8, 2017. The Crutch of Memory Viola Yip, voice. Instrumentality/Vocality Conference, University of Huddersfield. January 14, 2017. I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips Dejana Sekulic, violin. Art Base, Brussels, Belgium. March 5, 2017. The Crutch of Memory Ellen Fallowfield, cello. City University, London. March 7, 2017. The …
Caerulian. Carl Rosman, clarinet. HCR12, November 2016. Includes The wreck of former boundaries (B-flat clarinet). Recorded at Studio des Ensemble Musikfabrik, K̦ln, July РAugust 2016. Recording producer/mastering, Stephan Schmidt. Available here.
A very exciting autumn in store, with the premiere of The wreck of former boundaries, an ELISION European tour, a CD release, and a bit of performing as well. There are a few additional events that will be added as they are confirmed/un-embargoed. Performances ELISION. BIFEM (Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music), Australia, September 3, 2016. …
My current project—indeed the project that has been at the center of my compositional thinking for most of the last two years—is a piece entitled The wreck of former boundaries, a conglomerate of works—each sharing the same title—that includes a range of solo works, small chamber works, works for electronics, and a 35-minute ensemble work for …
I am on sabbatical leave this term, so mostly I am at home working feverishly to finish The wreck of former boundaries for its September premiere, though there are a few interesting, disparate events scattered through the winter and spring, including some work as a performer, as a conductor, as a CD producer, and miscellaneous other …
The final few months of 2015 are shaping up to be fairly busy. A few highlights: Performances Diego Castro, electric guitar. Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium, November 11, 2015. The Pleats of Matter Jason Hardink, piano. Spectrum NYC, New York, USA, December 14, 2015. ten monophonic miniatures for solo pianist Guest Lectures Conversation/interview with Daryl Buckley about …