I’m really pleased that my composition ‘Reflecting Cau Cau and Parque Urbano El Bosque‘ is on the programme at Sonic Cartography: Soundscape, Simulation and Re-enactment SC2022, which is taking place at the University of Kent in the Historic Dockyard. I’m looking forward to attending.

I’m delighted to have been invited to give a lecture at the Composing With Technology symposium at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Amsterdam University of the Arts, on 1st May. A great programme with some very interesting talks and a concert.

The symposium will take place at the Amsterdam Blue Note. Looking forward to it!

I recently presented a paper, Variability and the spatial setting: emergent properties and sound relationships in acousmatic music, at the EMS Network conference. It was great to present this paper at the conference last month in Leicester, and it’s also great to see it now available online. In it I discuss a classic electroacoustic work, Capture éphémère, by the inspirational Bernard Parmegiani.

It was great to finally have in-person concerts resume here at Bournemouth University last Thursday. Thanks to all who attended. I diffused two of my compositions, and my friend and colleague Panos Amelidis contributed his excellent music to the programme. Looking forward to further events in 2022!

I’m really please to share the news that I have a new composition, Reflecting Cau Cau and Parque Urbana El Bosque, included on the Soundlapse album, just released by German label Gruenrekorder. https://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=18999

The Soundlapse project (2019-22) is an interdisciplinary research initiative highlighting the acoustical heritage of wetlands in the south of Chile. Eight sound artists were commissioned to compose works using periodic field recordings of the “Parque Urbano El Bosque” wetland soundscapes in Valdivia. The album includes works by Aki Pasoulas, Pete Stollery, Francisco López, Alejandro Albornoz, Brona Martin, Rob Mackay and Felipe Otondo.

It was pleasure to be involved!

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I’ll be presenting a paper at the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference 2021 next week at De Montfort University, Leicester. The paper is titled Variability and the spatial setting: emergent properties and sound relationships in acousmatic music. I’m really looking forward to hearing the other presentations and hearing some great music in concert.

Delighted to share the news that Traces of Play will appear at the Futura 21 Festival, Crest, France on 19 August 2021.

My 2011 composition Fleeting Strands is on the programme at NYCEMF 2021 (New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival), which starts on 15 June 2021. A great festival, and it’s all online this year. Looking forward to it!

You can also check out an extract of Fleeting Strands here.

My CD collection Espaces éphémères is available at https://electrocd.com/en/album/6094

There are some really positive reviews at the foot of the page and also links to some other great albums released at a similar time.

Wednesday 4 March, 7pm – 8pm in South House Lecture Theatre, Arts University Bournemouth

World-renowned pianist Xenia Pestova is coming to Bournemouth to perform Karlheinz Essl‘s Gold.Berg.Work, a reinterpretation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for piano and electronics. Further info can be found here. It’s fantastic to finally have Xenia performing here in Bournemouth.

Admission is free – all welcome.

My sound installation ‘Tipping Points’ recently featured at the Sounds from the Gardens event at the Horniman Museum on 16–17 November 2019, which was part if the Being Human Festival.

On this occasion I installed a developed version of the sound installation from that showing at BEAF in May 2019. This new version featured new bird-call audio and field recordings made in and around the Horniman Museum, in addition to the Dorset ecosystem recordings. The interactions were refined and re-programmed, allowing visitors to both excite and severely constrain the growth of the ‘bird population’.

It was a fantastic event, and considerable thanks go to Marcus Leadley at Goldsmiths for his exceptional organisation and loan of loudspeakers.

I’m delighted to announce that ‘Traces of Play’ is programmed at Sonorities Festival Belfast 2020, 22-25 April 2020.

I’ll be diffusing my composition ‘Traces of Play’ on Thursday 12th September at the Convergence International Conference/Festival of Music, Technology & Ideas. The theme of the conference is ‘Complexity & Simplicity’, with a keynote speech from computer music legend Curtis Roads. The programme looks to be really varied and high quality, so I’m honoured to have been selected.

I’m delighted to announce that Traces of Play was awarded 2nd prize in the Klang! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition 2019. This is the 7th year of the Klang! competition and it has rapidly become established as one of the most significant prizes in the field.

It is a huge honour to receive this prize amid a highly esteemed group of finalists. Congratulations to all the selected composers.