Welcome to a new look website. Please glance around and get in touch or leave a comment if you see anything that looks broken. I am still tinkering with things, so things might change, and there should be sections with audio and video up at some point in the future. Any other feedback is also […]
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Tagged design, website
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“If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.” I’ve just got round to finishing Tony Judt’s excellent essay on the importance of the state printed in the Guardian Review the weekend […]
I am currently working on a new work for clarinet, cello, piano and handheld percussion to be premiered on Friday 30th April at 17:30 by players from Psappha new music ensemble. Mikrokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling, written last year, will be performed by new music ensemble Vaganza on 16th May at the […]
This is Water!, for ensemble and tape, takes its name from the book of the same title by David Foster Wallace, subtitled ‘Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life’ (Little, Brown & co., New York, 2009). Here is the passage, which gives that book its name: There are these two young […]
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Tagged 2010, audio, cello, clarinet, electro, electronics, flute, percussion, string quartet, viola, violin
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Over the last few months, along with friends Rob Guy and Steve Pycroft, I’ve been involved in setting up new music ensemble and composers’ collective Raise Your Voice. I’m really pleased to be able to announce our launch night will be on 28 February 2010 in Centro Bar, doors opening around 19:30. The night will feature […]