Tag: meditation
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hyperboles 3 in Montreal
Quasar Quartet, Le Gesu, Montreal, Canada, 19/1/17: It was disappointingly warm in Montreal. I’d promised MartinĀ temperatures of -20C and below (it reached -33C on my last trip) but it hovered around zero for the duration of our seven-day stay this time (reduced by a day due to cracks in our airplane’s windscreen—glad that happened…
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timing accuracy in hyperboles 2
Those present at the St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh performance by Mieko Kanno of my hyperboles 2 (āuntil the cherries burst in the orchardā)Ā on 20/5/16 were very patient. I told the audience that this violin plus computer pieceĀ would last 52 minutes but after the performanceĀ Dario Sanfilippo, who did the lights, told me it was more like…
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Bangkok Thoughts: post-concert Q&A
Whilst searching online forY/Our Music, Salee Art Every’s excellent film about Thai music, I stumbled across a complete recording of the post-concert question and answer session we did at Museum Siam on November 29th 2015, after the premiere of my jitterbug project. I’m always amazed at the concentrated and extended attention Thai audiences pay at events such as these.…
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Meditation ā« Music, Salzburg
It was a pleasure to be invited to Seda Rƶder’s inaugural Sonophilia event on August 15th. This took place just outside of Salzburg, Austria, at the Cultural Centre of St. Jakob, pictured above. With a focus on the transformative power of music and meditation, the day’s events provided opportunities to engage in mindfulness-centred approaches to…
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for rei as a doe
My 40-minute algorithmic composition for piano and computer came out on the Aural Terrains label this month. Rei Nakamura premiered it in London (partial version) and Stockholm (complete version) in 2012. Karin Schistek played it in Bangkok, Trento (Italy), and Edinburgh before we took to the Reid Studio to record it on March 3rd 2013. Booklet text…