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 …
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 …
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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.
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 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 …
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, …
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 …
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.