Tender Light Rising – the first track from Rift Patterns (Audiobulb) has been used as the soundtrack to a new video by Laurent Segretier. The audio-visual piece will be part of the Cabinet de Curiosités of Thomas Erber Exhibition from 20th November until 21st December in Bangkok.
http://www.lecabinetdecuriositesdethomaserber.com/en/
Iracema de Andrade’s new CD is now out and available on CD Baby www.cdbaby.com/cd/iracemadeandrade
The CD features my piece Between Lines (2009) alongside works by Barry Truax, Judith Shatin, Francisco Colasanto and Georgina Derbez.
Spiral Paths – a new 40 minute multi-part work for hardanger fiddle, electronics and video will be premiered at the hcmf// 2014 by Britt Pernille Frøholm on 28th November. http://www.hcmf.co.uk/event/show/467
Borderlands – an installation piece with William Mace (cello) and Deborah Templeton (text) will premiere at the Junction Goole, September 16-18th 2014.
A review of my recently commissioned collaboration with Martin Clarke @ SoundKitchen is here http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2014/08/soundkitchen-july-2014/. Martin and I plan to follow this up with a longer duo release in 2015.
Following the feature on composers from the Centre for Research in New Music in the Wire, Abi Bliss follows up with a wonderful article about the wide variety of music going on alongside cutting edge research. http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/cerenem-feature
There’s a feature on composers work from the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield in this month’s Wire. It also includes a review of Rift Patterns.
My paper on Nodalism and Creative Practice is now published in the Proceedings of xCoAx 2014, Porto, Portugal: pp.289-319 at http://2014.xcoax.org/pdf/xcoax2014-Adkins.pdf. The paper proposes a means of thinking about artistic creative practice in contemporary culture.
SOUNDkitchen performance announced – Martin Clarke and I perform solo sets then team up for a new collaboration. Performance starts at 8pm at Vivid Projects, 16 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley St, Bham, B5 5RS.
Following a wonderful review of Residual Forms, CHAIN D.L.K. have just published a 4.5/5* review of Rift Patterns http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=8271. It describes the release as an ‘amazing interactive ibook’. The project is a collaboration with Jason Payne, Deborah Templeton and brought together with photographs and ibook production by Stephen Harvey.
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