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Two Poles - a relatively new song, recorded for my portfolio

Consequences Opera

Consequences Opera is a collaborative project by nine second-year composers at Birmingham…

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My new piece for mixed quintet - lots of fun!

I remember the bubbleman

Thanks to everyone who entered, but there can only be three winners, so congratulations to Georgina Biddle, Bryn Bowen and Andrew Scott!

There’ll be updates on what kind of piece they request shortly.

While I’m here, check out my new piece for trumpet and…

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As I’m preparing for tonight’s concert of A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, I thought it’d be good to remind you all that there’s still time to enter my website launch competitio. The deadline is tomorrow at 8pm, so get yourself in the draw!

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Thanks Tom for playing for us today!

it makes me cry that i couldn’t get tickets for the opera when it was like a 20 min walk from my house. also, i could hear the helicopters the whole time - that’s just rubbing it in!

(Source: no-tritones-for-you)

thediscord:

ickymusic:

A harrowing performance of Frederic Rzewski’s wild yet economical Les Mountons de Panurge.  The score presents performers—any number of trained as well as untrained musicians—with a sixty-five-note numbered melodic line, which they are instructed to execute in a simple increasing algorithm (1, 1-2, 1-2-3, 1-2-3-4, and so on) at an accelerating piece.  These strict parameters might lend the piece the character of an etude or exercise, but as the music unfolds, more voices enter, and the boundaries of the original phrase become frayed and inscrutable, any technical sterility or dryness evaporates.  What emerges instead is a Philip Glass-esque quality of hypnosis and fascination, a listening experience akin to being immersed in a river: it’s impossible to take stock of everything, but small glimpses and discrete perceptions rise to the surface as you’re swept along.

Check out the score here.

lovelovelovelove

(via therisingred)

fuckyeahelliottcarter:

I’m motherfucking Elliott Carter. American legend. 

I don’t know who started this blog, but they seriously like Elliot Carter!