DISCOGRAPHY_AS PRODUCER/ENGINEER

Among the many hats I wear as a musician, one of my favourites is working in the recording studio. Over the last 20+ years I’ve produced, edited, and mixed recordings for releases on many of the leading labels in contemporary music, including NMC, Kairos, NEOS, mode, aeon, Winter & Winter, and Huddersfield Contemporary Records, along the way working with amazing performers such as ELISION, the Bozzini Quartet, Wet Ink, and a particularly fruitful, longstanding relationship with EXAUDI that goes back to the group’s first recording in 2004 and has since included seven discs across five labels.

One of my favourite things about the work is that it often puts me in contact with repertoire that I might not otherwise have a chance to know intimately. I get to play a creative role in constructing a kind of idealised, hyper-real version of pieces that, in many cases, have never been recorded previously, so the decisions made throughout the recording and editing process contribute in key ways to the construction of a work’s performance practice. Working as a record producer brings together many of the things I love about the other areas of my activity—it is part composer, part conductor, and, at its best, is very much a creative act, a collaborative exchange with singers and instrumentalists to create a version of a piece that finds the right balance between the energy and vibrance of a live performance and the precision and rigour of a rehearsal. It is work I very much enjoy.

A Way of Making Ghosts (Kairos 0015073KAI)

Aaron Cassidy:  A Way of Making Ghosts
ELISION, Ensemble Musikfabrik, JACK Quartet, and Line Upon Line

Producer, Mixing, and Editing
Recorded March 2020 (Cologne), August 2022 (Melbourne), March 2009 (Huddersfield), November 2019 (Huddersfield), July 2008 (Brisbane), and April 2018 (Melbourne)

Kairos 0015073KAI, December 2022

Fox Trostlieder EXAUDI Kairos

Christopher Fox:  Trostlieder
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble

Producer, Mixing, and Editing
Recorded July 2018 and November 2021 (London)

Kairos 0022005KAI, October 2022

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Smoke, Airs
Wet Ink Ensemble

Producer, Mixing, and Editing
works by Bryn Harrison and Kristina Wolfe
Recorded November 2019 (hcmf//, Huddersfield)

HCR24, September 2020

Print

Bozzini+
Quotuor Bozzini & Philip Thomas

Producer, Mixing, and Editing, works by Mary Bellamy & Bryn Harrison
Recorded November 2017 (hcmf// Huddersfield)

HCR19, November 2018

Finnissy EXAUDI Winter & Winter

Michael Finnissy, Vocal Works 1974–2015
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble

Producer, Mixing, and Editing
Recorded February 2015 (London), May 2015 (London), and March 2016 (London)

Winter & Winter 910 246-2, June 2018

The wreck of former boundaries HCR13

The wreck of former boundaries—ELISION Ensemble at 30
ELISION Ensemble, with Peter Evans & Tristram Williams, trumpet soloists

Mixing and Editing, The wreck of former boundaries
Recorded November 2016 (hcmf// Huddersfield)

HCR13, May 2017

Caerulean HCR12

Caerulean
Carl Rosman, clarinet

Producer and Editing, The wreck of former boundaries (solo clarinet) 
Recorded July 2016 (Cologne)

HCR12, November 2016

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Rihm/Nono: Passion Texts
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble

Producer, Mixing, and Editing
Recorded October 2006, November 2009, and February 2012 (London)

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HCR06 EXAUDI EXPOSURE

EXPOSURE
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble

Producer, Mixing and Editing, works by Aaron Cassidy, Bryn Harrison, Joanna Bailie
Recorded August 2012 (Tonbridge)

HCR06, May 2013

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The Crutch of Memory
ELISION Ensemble

Producer and Editing
Recorded at Radio Bremen (September 2010) and ABC Ferry Road Studios, Brisbane (July 2008)

NEOS 11201, January 2012

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Howard Skempton: bolt from the blue
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble

Producer
Recorded September 2007 (London)

mode 226, December 2010

HCR03 strange forces

strange forces
ELISION Ensemble

Recording Engineer, Because they mark the zone where the force is in the process of striking and What then renders these forces visible is a strange smile 
Recorded live at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November 2009

HCR03, September 2010

HCR02 transference

transference
ELISION Ensemble

Producer, 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) and surface forms (repeating)
Recorded at Radio Bremen, March 2010

HCR02, September 2010

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Brian Ferneyhough: Terrain
ELISION Ensemble, Jean Deroyer, cond., Carl Rosman, clarinet

Producer, La Chûte d’Icare
Recorded at Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank, May 2007

Kairos 0013072KAI, June 2010

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Howard Skempton:  Ben Somewhen
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble

Producer, tracks 8, 9, 16-20
Recorded January 2007 (London)

NMC D135, September 2007

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Christopher Fox:  A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble

Producer
Recorded July 2005 (London)

NMC D114, November 2005

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Michael Finnissy:  Maldon & other choral works
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, with Michael Finnissy, Howard Skempton, Philip Howard, Julian Warburton

Co-Producer
Recorded January 2004 (London)

NMC D110, March 2005

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Augenmusik (Promotional CD)

Co-Producer and Editing
Works by Cardew, Rinker, Brown, Wolff, Cage, and Logothetis.

Recored May/June 2003 (Buffalo, NY)

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