Without Barlines
Taking a non-partitioned look at musical life
Audiences and Openness
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Now here’s a contentious topic: the relationship between music and audiences. Cue all kinds of stereotyping, wild generalisations, radical ...
Opening-up to Openness in Music
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Since putting the word ‘openness’ in my Twitter bio I’ve been asked on numerous occasions, online and in person, what I mean by this. In f...
Notation and Scoring Ideas (or: Dealing with One-‘Note’ Music)
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My compositional approach has shifted in recent years. I use increasing amounts of open notation, open instrumentation and other such thing...
Some thoughts on open notation and late-stage collaboration
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Anyone who’s followed this blog (or anyone in the wake of my tirade of shameless self-promotion over the last couple of weeks) will probab...
Review: Workers Union Ensemble at LSO St Lukes and Michael Bonaventure's Automatronic Concert at St Laurence's, Catford
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I had the chance this last weekend to see two very stimulating concerts of new music. Being closer to London these days certainly has its ...
Space for Music
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The ever-decreasing space I’ve had for music Lately I’ve been both fortunate and unfortunate in equal measure. I’ve taken up a new job –...
Review: 'A Whispered Shout' (or Beer, Sandwiches & Experimental Music)
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Last weekend (3 August) I had the pleasure of experiencing A Whispered Shout , described by its organiser as ‘an afternoon of contemporary ...
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