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Musicon presented a "pre-premiere" of
Acts 1 and 2
of the new 8-channel piece
Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
(based on recordings of speech collected in the North East of England)
at a lunchtime Concert at the
Durham University Concert Hall
on
June 3, 2010.
Part of the same piece was also played at the
Cosmopoetics Conference in
Durham
on
September 10th, 2010.
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Globalalia and
Vocalise,
were performed by the composer in Mexico
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Fabulous Paris was played as part of the
Action Field Kodra Festival in
Thessaloniki, Greece starting on
September 3rd, 2010.
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Globalalia and the live Vocal Improvisation
Vocalise
were performed at the
Fondazione Cini in
Venice on
October 10th, 2010.
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Lecture presentation at the
University of Middlesex,in
London
on
Wednesday, May 5th.
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The
Institute for Living Voice
at the
Fondazione Cini in
Venice Between
7th and 10th of October, 2010,
featured 4 workshops by the composer, and a panel discussions at the
Fondazione Buziol
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COMPLETED PROJECTS 2011
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2011 North East Tour: presenting extracts from
Encounters in the Republic of Heaven on an 8-channel sound-system.
- Feb 11 Bradbury Centre of Age UK, Sunderland.
- Mar 1 Ryton Comprehensive School, Ryton, Tyne and Wear.
- Mar 28 Our Lady Primary School, Esh Winning, County Durham.
- Mar 28 St Joseph's Primary School, Ushaw Moor, County Durham.
- Mar 29 Wearhead Primary School, Wearhead, County Durham.
- Mar 30 Greenfield School, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.
- Apr 3 Witham Hall, Barnard Castle, County Durham.
- Apr 30 Morpeth Gathering, Morpeth, Northumberland.
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Participant in the project
Reclaiming our Futures: Science, Citizens and Environmental Change
at
Durham University, which held its first public session on
Monday,
November 14, 2011
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COMPLETED PROJECTS 2012
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Performance of Imago and
Globalalia
as part of the
Borderline Festival at the
Onassis Cultural Centre in
Athens
on the weekend of,
April 7-8, 2012.
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Seminar on sound composition
at the Music Dept, York St John's University,
February 15 2012.
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Two weeks in Toronto,
at
Artscape Wychwood Barns, including
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Performance of Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
at the
Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello in
Venice on Friday,
December 21st, 2012.
preceded by 2 days of workshops on electro-acoustic music and new vocal techniques.
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OTHER ACTIVITIES
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The independent Russian film-maker, Dima Venkov,
begins the soundtrack of his
new film with the opening stanza of
Fabulous Paris
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Two Women (Mvt 1) performed as part of a mixage by Berangere Maximin
on
La radio de Val du Drome and on the internet site
RadioSaintFerreol on
October 1st, 2012
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COMPLETED PROJECTS 2013
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Premiere of Supernova
and live vocal improvisation
Vocalise
at
Mash Marathon concert at the
Jacqueline du Pres Concert Hall,
Oxfordon Saturday,
January 26th, 2013.
Composition master-class and performance of
Supernova,
at the
New Music Forum at the Music Faculty,
University of Oxford,
on
February 19th, 2013.
Composition Workshop presented at the Music Faculty,
University of Oxford on Tuesday
April 30, 2013.
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Performances of Imago and
Globalalia
in the
NU Sounds Contemporary Music Concert Series
at the
Fenway Center, North Eastern University,
Boston, USA, on
April 13th, 2013,
with a seminar on the preceding day (
April 12).
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Supernova was performed in the
Torre di Porta Nuova of the
The Venice Arsenal,
on
May 4th, 2013.
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Performance, of Supernova
as part of the
Spring Concert Audiorama Ars Acustica
at
Audiorama in
Stockholm, on
May 30th, 2013.
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Public seminar in the
TIMECODE series,
at the
National Media Museum, Bradford, on Wednesday
January 23, 2013.
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WOMR radio, Cape Cod, USA
broadcast
Two Women on
January 29th.
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Broadcast of Anticredos,
and
Angel (from the
Fabulous Paris trilogy)
in the
Les Territoires du Son series presented by Berangère Maximin
on
Radio du Val de Drôme on Monday,
April 22nd,
and Sunday,
April 28th, 2013.
Also on the new
Radio Saint Ferreol internet site.
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Presentation on the composition of
Encounters, at
the
University of York, on Thursday
May 7th, 2013.
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Four days of workshops on the
Soundloom, -
Composer's Desktop Project software
as part of
MUSIC VIVA 2013 at the
Sao Luiz Theatre in
Lisbon,
December 10th-13th, 2013.
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COMPLETED PROJECTS 2014
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Globalalia
was performed at
WireWool#5 at the
Woolpack Inn in
York,
on Monday
January 27th, 2014.
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Act 3 of
Encounters in the Republic of Heaven
was performed
in the
Unerhörte Musik series at the
BKA Theater in
Berlin,
as part of Folkmar Hein's presentation of works by composers associated with the TU Berlin studio.
on Tuesday
February 11th, 2014.
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Performance of
Vox 5 on the
Audior acousmonium
in the
Vox Humana concert, at the
Sala Ottocentesca, Castello Sforzesco
in
Galliate, Italy, on Saturday,
June 7th, 2014.
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Premiere of Supernova and
Signatures of Chaosfrom
The Secret Resonance of Things at a
Musicon event in
Durham Town Hall on
June 20th, 2014.
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Performance of Encounters in the Republic of Heaven.
and keynote speaker at the
INTIME symposium at the
University of Coventry, on
October 18th , 2014.
Workshop/Seminar on
computer composition, University of Coventry Music Dept
on Friday
October 17th, 2014.
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Performance of
Dithyramb - Kepler63e from
The Secret Resonance of Thingsat the
Jacqueline du Pres concert Hall, St Hilda's College,
Oxford on
November 8th, 2014.
Composition Workshops at the
Faculty of Music,
Oxford University
on Tuesday
February 25th, and
April 30th, 2014.
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Performance of
Tongues of Fire in the
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall at
Harvard Universityon Thursday
December 11th, 2014.
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Issue of MusikTexte on
Electronic Music included a feature on the work of Trevor Wishart.
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Performance of
Two Women at the
Auditorium de CRR de Perpignan-Mediterranee, as part of
Syntax 14.1
on Tuesday
January 20th, 2015.
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Installation of The Secret Resonance of Things with interactive lighting display.
at the
Memorial auditorium of the
Centro de Cultura Digital in
Mexico City,
from
June 19th to August 23rd, 2015.
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Performance of Supernova
in
MUSLAB 2015 Mexico
at the
Concierto Fonoteca Nacional de México in
Coyoacan, Mexico City,
on
October 23rd, 2015.
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Performance of Supernova
in
MUSLAB 2015 Argentina
at the
Centro Cultural Recoleta in
Buenos Aires, Argentina,
on
November 5th, 2015.
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Composition workshop at the
University of Oxford Music Department on Tuesday
February 24th, 2015.
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Talk and Master Class on sound composition at the
University of Manchester Music Department on
April 16th and
17th , 2015.
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Visiting Professor at the
Leeds College of Music during the 2015-16 academic year.
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Performance of American Triptych, plus
Vocalise (live vocal improvisation)
as part of the
Signale - Graz concert series at
Mumuth in
Graz on
March 18th, 2016.
Presentations on "The Voice in Sonic Art" at
Mumuth on
Mar 16thand on Computer Music, at
IEM, Graz on
Mar 17th.
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Performances of Imago,
Globalalia and
The Secret Resonance of Things at the
Arnold Schoenberg Zaal of the
Royal Conservatory in
Den Haag on
March 31st, 2016.
This marked the beginning of a two month residency as the
Konrad Boehmer Visiting Professor at the Conservatory.
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Performance of Supernova, at
De Koffie Fabriek in
Amsterdam on
May 10th, 2016.
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Performance of Dithyramb as part of the presentation of the work of the
NESS project
(University of Edinburgh) on Physical Modelling, at
IRCAM in
Parison
October 13-14, 2016.
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Performance of Tongues of Fire, with choreography by Rafal Dziemidok
for the dance ensemble
Koncentrat Artistic Group at the
SinusTon 2016 festival
in
Magdeburg on
October 29th, 2016.