…or, at least, to Melbourne. James Aylward will be giving Arcanabula (2020) its Australian premiere at the Hanson Dyer Hall, Melbourne University Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, at 7:30pm on Wednesday 26 April 2023. The concert is an all-bassoon…

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…

I haven’t added a new blog in almost a year. Actually that’s not true: I’ve written over a dozen, just not posted them. Why? Well, the last year or so has seen an upswell of a strange phenomenon, that of…

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…