Staying with saxophones, last February the saxophonist Daniel Sclafani gave a second performance of the piece I wrote for him, silence, and the video of that outing is now on the webpage for the piece. Silence embraces the self-contradictoriness of…
(Well, you can’t be across everything…) My webmeister, Andrew Bernard, just discovered that anyone who has viewed this site previously on a mobile phone will have had a fairly unhelpful experience. This is because the menu navigation system on the…
I must confess to having spent the last few months in an agony of impatience. Last year I was one of the 67 composers invited to contribute pieces to the ANAM Set, which started life as a project to provide…
I’m a great believer in the creative potential of collisions. Whether it be Kurt Schwitters and spoken English (Ribble, Bobble, Pimlico) or Material recycling Weather Report’s Cucumber Slumber as the Fluxus Mix or Sciarrino’s hilarious Anamorfosi (…to give it any…
Those of you who keep a semi-regular eye on this site will have noticed that the Works List changes fairly drastically from time to time. Works appear to mutate, disappear, and even reappear. This is not entirely capricious. Being an…