Tag: Folkwang

  • orchestration algorithm in “days with glass edges”

    orchestration algorithm in
    “days with glass edges”

      days with glass edges (chasing the butterflies in my wallpaper), for fifteen-piece ensemble and 4-channel electronics, was premiered at the NOW! Festival by the Folkwang Modern ensemble conducted by Eva Fodor in the Essen Philharmonic on October 26th 2019. A documentation recording is given above and here is a short pre-performance discussion with my…

  • Premiere of Durchhaltevermögen in Münster

    Premiere of Durchhaltevermögen in Münster

    In May 2018 I was in Münster with edimpro colleagues Dimitris Papageorgiou and Karin Schistek to give improvisation workshops to students at the Hochschule für Musik. Mieko Kanno was with us to perform a lovely new work by Dimitris for electric violin and computer called deti. That work showcased Mieko’s research project ‘Modelling a Virtual…

  • oh, (the) shame!

    oh, (the) shame!

    This is the full and original text of my article published on February 15th 2018 in Times Higher Education.   In January of 2017 a colleague and I travelled to Canada to work with a saxophone quartet and give a performance in the beautiful Church of the Gesù, Montreal. At passport control both of us stated…

  • Control Waves and Guest Professorship at the Folkwang University, Essen

    Control Waves and Guest Professorship at the Folkwang University, Essen

    I’m just coming to the end of my second week of teaching in the Institute for Computer Music and Electronic Media (ICEM) at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. It’s  a pleasure to be here, working with the dedicated and friendly students and staff.  I’ll be a Guest Professor until the end of 2016 and…