NEWS: Interview with Kathy Hinde

Last year I was extremely lucky to interview sound-artist (and fellow Bristolian) Kathy Hinde for the journal Stage Screen Sound. Kathy makes extraordinarily beautiful work that ranges over installations, participatory events, happenings, and live performances. You can read the interview online here (starting p.164).

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NEWS: Co-Authored Journal Article

Myself and James Saunders have had an article published in the new music journal MusikTexte. The article is entitled What do composers do all day? and contains additional contributions from Joanna Bailie, Freeman Edwards, Larry Goves, Bryn Harrison, Hanna Hartman, Evan Johnson, Michael Maierhof, Cassandra Miller, Caitlin Rowley, Elena Rykova, Charlie Sdraulig, Laura Steenberge, Ming Tsao, and Amnon Wolman.

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ARTICLE: Revisiting, Revising, Remembering, Forgetting (On some of my older music)

As you may be aware from a previous post, recently revised an orchestral piece for a recording project with the London Symphony Orchestra. The piece - but today we collect ads - is over ten years old. I was twenty-three when I wrote it and less than a year out of studies. had to revise the piece as if I was a 23-year-old again, but with the wider practical experience that 10 years of professional work brings. It was certainly not my intention to aesthetically upgrade the work in any sense. To work out what I was trying to do originally and then try and do that better.

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NEWS: LSO Recording Release

In a time of international emergency, this feels like small news - but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was absolutely thrilled and excited to have been included on a new release from the London Symphony Orchestra.

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NEWS: 2019 Ivors Academy Award Nomination

Still a bit stunned, I am delighted to be able to announced that my recent piece Meeting the Universe Halfway (2018) has been nominated for an Ivors Academy Award, formerly the British Composer Awards. The final results will be announced at the awards ceremony in London on December 4th.

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UPDATE: Summer 2018

It has been a rather busy summer so far, even on top of the usual frantic entanglement of marking and assessment that a university position demands. This is a little update as to my various research activities over the last two or three months, with some previews of upcoming projects.

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