Obviously it’s been a very strange time, with many events and projects cancelled, postponed, and often still hovering in some sort of suspended animation, with uncertain but somehow still hopeful futures. This was supposed to have been one of the busiest spring schedules I’ve had in a few years, with lots of globetrotting and some …
Performances Karin Nakayama, violin. Half Moon Hall, Shimokitazawa, Japan. September 2, 2019. The Crutch of Memory Line Upon Line. Open Circuit, Leggate Theatre, University of Liverpool, UK. November 1, 2019. A republic of spaces (premiere of revised version) Line Upon Line. City University, London, UK. November 5, 2019. A republic of spaces Line Upon Line. Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany. November …
Performances University of York, Rymer Auditorium, HISS@10. February 15, 2019. I, for example, … Kathryn Schulmeister, double bass. University of California, San Diego. February 23, 2019. The wreck of former boundaries (contrabass) ELISION. Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, Center for 21st Century Music, University at Buffalo, New York, April 23-24, 2019. The wreck of former boundaries (B-flat clarinet) …
Performances Dejana Sekulic, violin. Darmstadt Summer Courses ‘Open Space’, Germany. July 18, 2018. “the green is where” Daryl Buckley, electric lap steel guitar. City Recital Hall, Sydney, Australia. August 25, 2018. The wreck of former boundaries (lap steel & electronics) Line Upon Line. First Street Studio. Austin, Texas. September 28, 29, & 30, 2018. A …
Phantom Images. Includes I, for example, … (2017), along with works by Katherine Young, Chris Mercer, Sam Pluta, and Charmaine Lee. Produced as part of the CeReNeM Speculations in Sound international research network, in partnership with the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University and the CHIME studios at the University of Chicago. HCR17, April 2018. …
A number of exciting performances and projects coming up in the first few months of 2018 … In February I’ll be one of the featured composers (with Robert Normandeau) at the Florida Contemporary Music Festival in Gainesville, Florida. I’ll be giving some lectures and masterclasses, and the residency will conclude with a concert of six …
Austin residency ELISION ensemble. Big Medium Gallery, Austin, Texas, October 20, 2017. Ben Marks, trombone: Because they mark the zone where the force is in the process of striking and songs only as sad as their listener (my first performances in Texas since I was a high school student near Dallas, 25 years earlier). And performer (live …
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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 …