news

composition

• Double CD version of #[unassigned] released on confront. For more information or to order, please follow this link.
• Commission from Sudwestrundfunk for a new version for Ensemble Modern performed at Donaueschingen in October 2007, and broadcast on SWR2.
• Participation in the London Sinfonietta's Blue Touchpaper project, working with the ensemble to produce a long version for 2006-7.
• Collaboration with artist book maker John MacDowall to create a limited edition series of book versions of #[unassigned] for private performance.
• Residency at the Experimental Studio fur Akustische Kunst in January 2007, followed by a performance at SWR, Freiburg, in June 2007 with ensemble chronophonie.
• To be added to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians in the 2008 update. The entry will be written by Christopher Fox.
• Composition notebook to be exhibited in Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music from September 7 – October 20, 2007 at The Kitchen, New York, followed by a performance of #201007 in the closing concert.
• Broadcast of #121006 played by Apartment House and extended interview with Robert Worby on BBC Radio 3 Hear and Now (22 December 2007)
• Performances with Parkinson Saunders at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November 2007 as part of the SAN/BBC Radio 3 Cut and Splice event (broadcast on Hear and Now on 23 February 2008), and at Q-02 in Brussels in December 2007.

writing

• Appointed editor of the Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music (due to be published in 2009). For more information, please see here
• Recent publication “The Dictaphone in my Life”, Leonardo Music Journal 17 My Favorite Things - The Joy of the Gizmo (2007)
• Forthcoming publication of paper 'Modular Music' in Perspectives of New Music (2008).
• Recent publication: James Saunders, “What are you doing with your music?”, in Blocks of consciousness and the unbroken continuum, ed. Brian Marley (London: Sound 323 Press, 2005).