It was a pleasure to interview @juergfrey.bsky.social about the gobsmackingly beautiful 'Clarinet Quintet', out now on @anothertimbre.bsky.social. Read the interview and get your hands on the album. London premiere on 29 May at @musicwedliketohear.bsky.social.
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Very chuffed that @eurozine.bsky.social reached out to reprint my article 'The British School of Emotionalism and Metamodernism' on their website. It's now in English and free to read. Give it a try!
Feeling both stimulated and relaxed after a magnificent few days in Bergen for the Borealis festival. It was a joy to be part of the delegates programme. A longer reflection will be out in the upcoming May issue of POSITIONEN—watch this space. Photo 2 by Miriam Levi.
What could £10 do to promote a gig ten years ago—and what does it take now? Ahead of @840series.bsky.social's Saturday concert with the NLCC, I spoke to Alex Nikiporenko about 840's history and how the promotion game has changed.
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Now available online. I've really enjoyed chatting with Maia, and I hope you enjoy reading what she's got to say! www.positionen.berlin/post/maia-ur...
One of the most bizzare concerts I've ever attended :)
Plus, a YouTube playlist featuring music by Jennifer Walshe, Matthew Shlomowitz, Alex Paxton, Simon Steen-Andersen, Cassandra Miller, Oliver Leith, Øyvind Torvund, Natacha Diels, Laurence Crane, Maddie Ashman, Neil Luck, Bastard Assignments, Ben Nobuto, Matthew Grouse.
My final foray into the metamodern syndrome comes in POSITIONEN 146, where I talk about the 'British School of Emotionalism and Metamodernism' (BSEM). Available now in German via POSITIONEN 146. The English version will be published online in a few months.
My modest contribution to Feldman's centenary is an interview I prepared with incredible GBSR duo and Taylor Maclennan about the equally incredible 'Trios' box set, hot off the press from Another Timbre. This hauntingly mesmerising music has utterly besotted me.
Happy 100, Morton Feldman! Little music reaches my soul as deeply as yours: austere, devoted, flickering endlessly on the horizon, like ever-elusive hope itself without which one is doomed.
Fun times at my first-ever @hcmfuk.bsky.social 2025. My piece for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social is out now, with pretty mind-boggling insights from Graham McKenzie and a few unvarnished concert takes. This one's for lovers of numbers and sceptics of the UK’s arts funding. van-magazine.com/mag/huddersf...
I enjoyed my conversation with sound artist Maia Urstad immensely after discovering her work at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse earlier this year. German readers can find our conversation in POSITIONEN issue 145. English readers will have to wait a few months before it appears online
An essay from what I now call my prime metamodern phase — on Francesca Fargion’s music, its oscillations, naivety, Romanticism, parental relationships and the evanescent, banal everyday. Have a read! maratology.substack.com/p/happy-sad-...
"Garland showed exactly what the UK new music scene could achieve if funding matched ambition." My review of Oliver Leith's Garland is out via @bachtrack.com.
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My Darmstadt 25 review is in @vanmusicmag.bsky.social. 'Situations' are audience agency, censorship, David Tudor, distracted listening, Hannes Seidl, healing sounds, hybrid formats, immediacy, instagrammable art, Maryanne Amacher, neoliberalism, spatial arrangements van-magazine.com/mag/darmstad...
Marat Ingeldeev reports from Musik Installationen Nürnberg, where he eats a very good shawarma, gets pedalled around a lake in a hot pink flamingo pedalo by two retirees, and ponders nonlinearity — and much more at @vanmusicmag.bsky.social
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Great conversation, Marianna — just like your book, which I’ve been recommending a lot lately. Also nice to see @annakornbluh.bsky.social's ideas included – so much potential there!
With Another Timbre's new CDs imminent, I invite you to read my interview with Bryn Harrison. We discussed 'Towards a slowing of the past', disorientation in music, immersive listening and the most important lesson he learnt from pianist @philipthomas.bsky.social.
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