My Kelp Road will be played on April 6th as part of this series of concerts in Mexico City. Thanks to Gonzalo T. Alonso, Carole Chargueron and the Centro Nacional de las Artes for putting this together (looks like an amazing series!) and for the offer to include something!
New Scirk Album Out
Check out our new album, recorded live in Bangkok last December with the every amazing Dirk Stromberg. Thanks to A Sad Lemon for the amazing artwork!
Visiting Professorship in Bangkok, Memory Project in Bogotá, and Premiere at the IntAct Festival
Apologies for the irregular updates but it’s been a very busy Autumn. Starting with a 6 week visiting Professorship at PGVIM in Bangkok, and a wonderful gig at GalileOasis as part of PGVIS 2024. This included the outcomes of a field recording workshop with wonderful young Thai composers, and an improvised performance with the amazing …
Keynote at ICLC 2024
I’ll present a keynote at the International Conference on Live Coding at NYU-Shanghai on June 1st, called Live Coding in the Wild: On-the-fly Programming in a Broader Musical Ecosystem: 20 Years after the founding of TOPLAP, with hundreds of algoraves presented, (now!) eight international conferences, articles in the most significant journals in the field, coverage …
Something for Everyone. Nothing for Anybody.
Just in time to be too late for Valentine’s Day, new EP drop!!! Fun franken-instrument electronic improv with the amazing Dirk Stromberg. https://scirk.bandcamp.com/album/something-for-everyone-nothing-for-anybody
Visiones Sonoras in Mexico and Wild in Birmingham
I’m delighted to be returning to Morelia, Mexico for the wonderful Visiones Sonoras 19 Festival, which runs March 6-10. I’ll give a performance of the latest iteration of my What if there’s nothing you can do? series, this time sonifying climate data, and give a workshop and talk on sonification techniques. Immediately on returning to …
Autumn 2022 Activities
I’ve got a lot of international gigs coming up this Autumn. On September 30th and October 1st I’ll be at the Voltaje Festival in Bogotá, Colombia, for two concerts: The first involving work by myself and members of BEAST, and the second a performance with Colombian duo Efimero (Jorge Garcia and Santiago Lozano), all over …
BEER@10 and What if there’s nothing you can do? at BEAST FEaST 2021
A special online reunion performance of Pea Stew by current and past members of the Birmingham Ensemble for Electroacoustic Research (10 years old this year!) and my piece What if there’s nothing you can do? (28/1/21) will be part of BEAST FEaST 2021: Recalibration. In Concert 2 and Concert 3 on Thursday April 22nd.
Resilience, Distance, Connection in Isolation, Space from Afar
Super happy to have been involved in this British Council funded project with partners in Thailand led by Piyawat Louilarpprasert, along with Annie Mahtani, Nikki Sheth, Jean-David CaillouĂ«t, Heather Roche, Anothai Nitibhon, Simon Barry Smith, Thanakarn Schofield, Pongthorn Techaboonakho and the amazing and fierce Tacet(i) Ensemble! Check out the video streams at the Thailand New …
Headphone Workflows for Multichannel Composition
To all of my multichannel sound and electroacoustic music composer and/or educator friends out there, I know a lot of us will be struggling to continue this kind of work (or support our students) while studios are closed. To this end, I’ve knocked together some REAPER templates showing how one might do this on headphones …