I'm leading this pretty cool Composing Ecology weekend at Hawkwood, Stroud in June - a few days of listening to nature and making music in the most beautiful of surroundings. Does this sound like your thing? In which case, come and join me!

www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programm...

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“This is a crime against humanity… no longer just a human rights violation. It is truly anti-human behaviour.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I reached for the same word. How unbearable.

NEWS: I've been working on a new project called Composing Ecology, centred on a collection of mostly text scores called New Nature Pieces, for individuals and groups. Do check it out - you can download everything for free and use it.

I'd be delighted if you'd take a look!

composingecology.com

New Music Show - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light - BBC Sounds Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light for string quartet.

A very excellent string quartet here by @sarahhennies.bsky.social, titled after the 'hidden' light of interior rooms of Shaker houses. Interview starts around 40 mins in, music from 44 mins. 10 days to listen before it goes...

James Weeks weatherworld quartets

World premiere Nov 25 7:30pm Palace Green, Durham @durhammusicdept.bsky.social @jamesweeks.bsky.social

also for the listeners

Lighthouse optic

Today began with James Weeks' Blue Hours conjuring blues and wooze on the cusp of alpha and beta waves, welcoming in GMT with a fantastically poised performance from GBSR Duo at Sound Festival Aberdeen. And the spinning and waves continued at Fraserburgh lighthouse museum...

The truth: we need migration.

The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.

Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.

Reject it. Draw the line.

Damn right. Well said all round.

at least one of them's looking forward to it

Very excited for this early-morning premiere with the incredible GBSR Duo in Aberdeen next month! sound-scotland.co.uk/event/james-...

Weeks with and without voices: Frey, Gombert Jürg Frey: Voices

"The impersonal gains profundity when it engages with the listeners to reflect upon themselves." Exaudi sing Jürg Frey and Apartment House play Gombert. Isn't that supposed to be the other way around? www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

Thanks Ben, appreciate your attention to these and for giving me a few things to think about too!

thank-you!

glad you like it! thanks for supporting it - couldn't have made it without you...

thanks Seán! amazing music this

Voices, by Jürg Frey 9 track album

Some nice stuff on around the house this past week part VII

Pure beauty ℅ @juergfrey.bsky.social @jamesweeks.bsky.social & Exaudi…

neurecordsbcn.bandcamp.com/album/voices

The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, April 2025 Our guide to the month’s crucial contemporary classical releases.

Good and profound review about VOICES, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble and James Weeks.
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, April 2025.
Thank you Peter Margasak
daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...

I've heard he does a mean rumba.

Opening paragraph from the Leipziger Argus, 1752.

so pleased it arrived promptly. Hope you enjoy it and thanks for supporting!!

Thanks Stephen!

Jürg Frey: Voices – EXAUDI Release Date: 2025 Label: Neu Records EXAUDI makes the first recording of Swiss composer Jürg Frey's intimate and shimmering vocal music.

Absolutely, a big box of them here. If you order one through the EXAUDI website I'll get the order. Or email me! www.exaudi.org.uk/product/jurg...

Always a good day when the albums arrive. Especially when they're as smart as this! Now for the pleasant task of sending them out to our many project supporters. If you want one, there will be plenty left... www.exaudi.org.uk/product/jurg...

Listening to Jürg Frey's 'VOICES', beautifully performed by the EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble. (I got HD 24/96 files from my pledge). I am so happy that this long-awaited album is finally coming out on NEU RECORDS.
www.neurecords.com/voices/

www.neurecords.com/voices/
Jürg Frey: Voices.
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, James Weeks
NEU RECORDS.
I am very pleased to present a new CD here. More than 10 years of inspiring cooperation with EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble and James Weeks has resulted in this wonderful CD.

thanks Seán. It's remarkable stuff. Hope all is well!

Voices, by Jürg Frey 9 track album

EXAUDI's Jürg Frey album, VOICES, is out today on Neu Records. The music is entirely stunning and devastatingly beautiful! Listen now: neurecordsbcn.bandcamp.com/album/voices. Buy a copy direct from EXAUDI: www.exaudi.org.uk/albums/ (Please don't just go to Spotify etc...)

GBSR Duo and EXAUDI will premiere Linda Catlin Smith’s ‘The Lighthouse’ at Wigmore Hall on Saturday!

[EXAUDI photo credit: Jon Cartwright; GBSR photo credit: Dejan Mrdja]
@wigmore-hall.org.uk
whatsnew.composersedition.com/gbsr-exaudi-...