Around 10 years ago, I sat in a small public lecture theatre listening to a cancer patient speak about her illness. I was gripped. Hers was a brutal, raging cancer, the treatment…
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I can’t listen to Delibes’ Coppelia without my mind leaping back to my five-year old self, dancing around the living room to an Ernest Ansermet Decca recording. The next LP on the…
The sounds and inspiration behind RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME A bell strikes. A rich, metallic, portentous spectrum, heralding a call, change, victory, danger, celebration… Surely a bell is one of the most…
Its not often that you take your seat in a concert venue that could kill you. Situated beneath Tower Bridge are two cavernous bascule chambers, housing the huge counterweights that swing the bridge into…
Spitalfields Festival 13th June 2016 For Magnetic Tape II (London Premiere) – Christian Wolff Muffled Cyphers – Langham Research Centre The Dark Tower (wp) – Langham Research Centre The thing about…
Thoughts on the RITUAL in Transfigured Time tour (Poème électronique at Cheltenham Festival) In 1958 Edgard Varese’s ‘Poème électronique’ premiered at Expo 58, also known as the Brussels World’s Fair,...
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This is the first step in my attempt to reawaken my ears. To ‘cleanse’ myself of the saturation of sounds around us in daily life, to start afresh… a sort of detox…