Hot on the heels of a presentation at CrossCurrents, Tasawar Bashir and I are heading up to Electric Spring in Huddersfield with I will go with the Yogi (Qawwali Palimpsestic), our audiovisual work based on the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. This is a collective work with musical contributions also coming from Emma Margetson, Charlie Lockwood and Helene …
The closing event of the CrossCurrents Festival on February 20th will be a concert by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, including the premiere of a collaborative song cycle inspired by Berio’s Folk Songs and involving numerous composers: Michael Zev Gordon, Joe Cutler, Ed Bennett, Daria Kwiatkowska, Judith Weir, Richard Baker, Charlotte Bray, Howard Skempton, Federico Favali, Patrick Giguere, …
The amazing Fidelio Trio will give a concert on 17th February as part of the CrossCurrents Festival, which will include the premiere of my gamelan infused work head-neck-chest-four-five-six-thing for trio and electronics.
Some exciting BEAST events coming up, in the form of our latest ‘Pantry Sessions’ collaboration with SOUNDkitchen. We’re presenting two days of events as part of the CrossCurrents Festival. Includes Annie Mahtani/Iain Armstrong, Justin Wiggan, Jo Thomas, Eliot Bates, David Ogborn, Michael Edwards, Ellen Fallowfield and the first of two reappearances of our Qawwali Research …
Another book review for Introduction to Electronic Music, this one in Italian. My Italian student, Google translate, and my vague familiarity with Romance languages suggest there’s much that’s positive within it!
The latest BEAST event is Thursday December 10th in the Dome Room in the Bramall music building. Performances by John Richards and his Dirty Electronics wielding partners in crime (from a workshop earlier in the day), Manfredi Clemente and Ben Peers doing no-input mixing and live electronics, and BEER giving the Birmingham premiere of Switchblade in a …
The new BEAST website is finally live! Have a look. As well, the Call for Works and Talks for BEAST FEaST 2016 is also up. Do forward it and submit something.
I’ll be playing twice in September at radical dB in Zaragoza…
There’s a generally positive review of our Introduction to Electronic Music by the estimable Monty Adkins in the latest issue of Organised Sound (paywall or institutional access).
Sound and Music asked me to provide picks from the next two weeks for The Sampler.