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"Wire contributor, semi-mythical pop svengali, erstwhile thespian, sampler troubadour and untidy kitchen user" - Owen Hatherley of Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy

"Your songs are pretty little paths - take us somewhere nice." - Elodie Amandine Roy, Applejack Zine
Composition (2010) No. 3

For any ensemble


Before the performance, a number of motifs taken from birdsong should be recorded and notated on manuscript paper, sufficient to assign one to each player.

All musicians…
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Composition (2010) No. 1
For any ensemble of strings (and / or trombones, crumhorns, etc.)

The players should all be sat in a circle, each should imagine before him the letters

C, D, E, F, G, A, B,

in other…
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Upcoming

In about one hour, that’s 16:30 BST, I will be appearing on Jonny Trunk’s Resonance FM show to talk about film soundtracks and things.

Tomorrow afternoon at approximately three…
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The Rest is Music, Ho!


It was a curious thing to read simultaneously (one on the bus, one in the bath), both Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise and Constant Lambert’s Music Ho! recently. Ross’s book won the…
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Composition (2010) No. 2
For any ensemble of roughly equal numbers of each sex

All players should sit in a circle and look around the room.

Upon catching the eyes of any other player, take a deep breath and…
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'In C' at The Lexington, Sunday July 11th.

Sunday last at The Lexington, A Little Orchestra and friends performed Terry Riley’s minimalist classic ‘In C’ for John Jervis’s delightful Hangover Lounge afternoon. The result was so…
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"The world needs a wake up call, gentlemen. We're gonna phone it in."

Watching They Live, I couldn’t help but be reminded of William Gibson’s recent remark on his blog about arriving in the “capital F-future” and discovering, invariably, nothing but…
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Lies, Damned Lies and the Rude Health of Pubs and Records

William Burroughs once claimed that the purpose of science was to make people aware of what they already know and the purpose of religion to stop people from being aware of what they…
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Santa Claus of the Subconscious: Strange Days

Now that we all live in the future - the twenty-first century, setting for so many comics and sci-fi novels - it can be a curious experience to look back at the futures of the past, those…
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