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 …
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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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 …
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 …
The premiere of The Pleats of Matter is now just under two weeks away. Diego Castro and I have been meeting regularly — generally once a week or so — for the last few months, sometimes working through small practical details, sometimes working to focus and streamline the electronics, sometimes making decisions about gear (we’ve been through …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Read more “Summer 2013 performances and upcoming publications”
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 …