This two-year project is the first major survey of text scores, an alternative form of musical notation which uses words instead of conventional music symbols. Housed at Bath Spa University in the UK, the project will classify and analyse strategies used by composers to create text scores, and present appropriate performance practices for their realisation. Through the principal outcome, a book anthology, the project hopes to contribute to developing a clearer understanding of these areas, aiding future creative practice and providing a source for new exponents and audiences to begin their engagement with the work. Read more.
above: a section of Daphne Oram's Oramics Machine, London, April 2009
From 2007-8 I was responsible for the digitization of the reel-to-reel tapes contained within the Daphne Oram Collection, housed at Goldsmiths.
Seymour Wright - Seymour Wright of Derby
The music is improvised and about the saxophone - music, history and technique – actual and potential.
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James Saunders - #unassigned perf. Andrew Sparling [clarinet] / Anton Lukoszevieze [cello]
confont 15 [double digipack cd] buy
Peter Garland - String Quartets perf. Apartment House
released by Cold Blue Music
Jayne Parker - Kettle's Yard Trilogy
Three films, first shown at the BFI in October 2008.
Linear Construction
Woman with Arms Crossed
Arc
Featuring cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, these films are documents of musical performance: respectively, 'Récitation' (1980) by Georges Aperghis; 'Sensitivo, per arco solo' (1959) by Sylvano Bussotti; and 'Raimondas Rumsas' (2002) by Laurence Crane.
above: Laurence Crane during filming of Jayne Parker's 'Arc', Kettle's Yard, Spring 2008