It’s been a while since I had a chance to update this part of the Internet, but thus is the nature of our existence. Since late August, things have been incredibly busy around Birmingham Conservatoire, but as always it is a joy to have such fantastic students, colleagues and projects to be involved with. AugustContinue reading “This is the news”
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A festival of new music curated by the American composer David Lang has been announced
Originally posted on Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland:
The festival, presented by New Music Dublin, takes place at the National Concert Hall, Dublin from 6–7 March 2015 and will feature Bang on a Can All-Stars, Crash Ensemble, So Percussion, Trio Mediaeval, and RTÉ ConTempo Quartet performing a series of new music concerts over 2 days. The…
Forthcoming Performances
Below are some forthcoming performances I have just found out about. Maybe you can make it along! 23 August 2014 9:45pm – Greenbelt Festival, Big Top, Boughton House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK: Thumb perform Strange to See you Again by Seán Clancy (Click to Buy Tickets) 6 October 2014 8:00pm – Little Missenden Church, Little Missenden, UK:Continue reading “Forthcoming Performances”
If it doesn’t exist on the Internet, it never happened…
(Ensemble KROCK recording at Guerrilla Studios in Dublin) Much has happened since the last post on this hidden corner of the Internet that has been left undocumented and as Kenneth Goldsmith says: ‘If it doesn’t exist on the Internet, it doesn’t exist.’ This post then, aims to give life to recent events… Towards the end ofContinue reading “If it doesn’t exist on the Internet, it never happened…”
KROCK perform a work by Seán Clancy on 11 July at the Kevin Barry Room, Dublin
Originally posted on Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland:
Ensemble KROCK Swedish ensemble KROCK specialise in playing contemporary music for electric guitars and electronics and since forming in 2005 have commissioned and premiered more than 30 pieces from internationally renowned composers. Fresh from Birmingham’s recent Frontiers Downtown Festival, they present Three Objects in a Concert Hall featuring…
IICS & Future Performances
I’m just back from two weeks in Izmir in Turkey with my friend and colleague Ed Bennett where we were both teachers on the Interdisciplinary Involvement and Community Spaces project with Students from Birmingham City University. This project involves 30 students from across Europe coming together in a city that many of them will never haveContinue reading “IICS & Future Performances”
Well, Well, Well
So after our fantastic Frontiers Festival there was but a small respite in work before another group of performances of my music in the UK and Ireland as well as a current trip to Stockholm (where I am now writing this blog post) and a future trip to Izmir. This period of work began withContinue reading “Well, Well, Well”
Behind the Door by Giulia Berto
A number of weeks ago, I was invited to be photographed in my workspace for a project. Now, my workspace is not very exciting, it is the room in which I sleep with a desk in the corner. There are a few images around the place mostly from art exhibitions I have been to overContinue reading “Behind the Door by Giulia Berto”
Frontiers Festival Birmingham
(Andy Ingamells pictured with the remains of the day) So we’ve all just about recovered from two weeks of Frontiers at Birmingham Conservatoire, which has been the most ambitious and extensive festival to date and in the space of two weeks we had a host of events written and performed by our fantastic students, myContinue reading “Frontiers Festival Birmingham”
This is the News
(Chiharu Shiota: Dialogues, New Art Gallery Walsall) It has been an incredibly busy time over the past few months and I have neglected to post anything here in the past while. However, for those of you interested I’ve been extremely busy multitasking between teaching at Birmingham Conservatoire, writing new pieces, scoring films (The Inquiry), attendingContinue reading “This is the News”
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