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
Category: Music
Pieces of music for you to listen to…
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 …
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 …
Concert and Workshop in Mexico
I’ll be presenting a concert of my work, and a workshop on SuperCollider with a focus on live coding and network music, at the Centro Mexicano para la MĂşsica y Artes Sonoras (CMMAS) in Morelia, Mexico. The concert is August 16th at 20:00. The workshop runs August 12-16.
Music for Manic Machines / SONUS ex MACHINA in Poznań
The fabulous Mari Fukumoto will premiere my new Music for Manic Machines for organ and electronics  on October 28th. This is the first installment of the ongoing Sonus ex Machina project, so stay tuned for other performances (including at BEAST FEaST in April). Presented by Poznań Spring (in the Autumn).
New Kelp Road Webpage…
…over on the BEAST site. Check it out!
Darragh Morgan: For Violin and Electronics
Really delighted that Darragh Morgan‘s For Violin and Electronics is now out on Diatribe Records, which includes a recording of my work Flame, which I wrote for him some years ago. This is alongside fantastic pieces by Simon Emmerson, Ricardo Climent, Paul Wilson, Jonathan Nangle and Jonty Harrison.
Kelp Road Concert and Installation
My collaboration with Anne Parouty is on show until early May in the Bramall Music Building Foyer at the University of Birmingham. This is an audiovisual installation consisting of Anne’s beautiful cyanotype prints of kelps, and sounds derived from numerous recording trips to Wales. This is the culmination of two years of work, so we’re …
Video and Audio of head-neck-chest-four-five-six-thing
Video and audio is now up of the premiere of head-neck-chest-four-five-six-thing by the wonderful Fidelio Trio. The piece is sort of around and about the pelog scale that’s found in gamelan music. It was a wonderful experience to work with them, and a great performance as you can see and hear!