Two movements from Spiral Paths will receive their premiere on 31st October 2014 performed by Britt Pernille Froholm. The full piece will be premiered at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival on 28th November 2014. Concert details for the Sounds Scotland premiere can be found here:  http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/sound_events/britt-pernille-froholm-hardanger-fiddle-sarah-jane-summers-fiddle/

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.

http://www.ioutheatre.org/projects/totum-one-468

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.