something golden in the night represents a first attempt to transform the traditional concert hall context through an abstract scenography that begins to construct a new context within the framework of a classical concert. A saxophonist is accompanied in their performance by a play of shadows coming from a sculpture, the movement of which is […]
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
During the interval of BBC Radio 3’s live concert broadcast on Friday 2 March, you can hear me talking to King Edward Musical Society chairman Tim Ward about my orchestral work June Unfolding, which they premiered last summer as part of the celebrations for the 750th anniversary of the royal charter of Macclesfield. The piece was […]
Saturday, 21 January 2012, 20:00 — La leggerezza delle città, San Francisco Tape Music Festival, ODC Theatre, San Francisco CA, 94110, USA.
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Last year I put together a lengthy look at good stuff I’d seen, heard and read. To close this year, here are some much briefer notes on some of the best things I encountered in the last 12 months. Richard Craig, Inward — Without a doubt the best disc of new music I’ve heard this year, […]
soundinitiative perform Chris Swithinbank’s ‘Small Atlas’ at the Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre, CIUP, Paris 75014, France, 5 December 2011.