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18. May 2019 – 2, 3, and 4pm – performances of Amir Konjani’s To Be Someone Else is a Battle, Barbican’s Sound Unbound Festival
20-22 May 2019 Apartment House Residency at Cafe Oto
June 15, University of Durham, with Eva Zöllner
June 18, Venice Biennale (German Pavillon), with Eva Zöllner, Elnaz Seyedi’s Nach Neuen Meeren
August 4-11 Kalv Composers Academy, Sweden, with Mimitabu
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Category Archives: on performance
How to Apply for a (Composition) Competition
If you follow the blog, you’re probably aware that recently I successfully raised funds with crowdfunding in order to fund a competition for young composers. Here is the first blog post in a series documenting the competition process! The application … Continue reading
on chamber music
A few weeks ago, as part of a week long residency at Bangor University (specifically to play a rockin’ concert with Xenia Pestova and Carla Rees), I was asked to lead a workshop on chamber music performance. I don’t teach … Continue reading
the cologne new music scene
This article was published in German this week in the ON magazine (online version is here). The magazine features a number of articles from local interpreters, composers and even dancers, discussing their experience of the scene here in Cologne. Here … Continue reading
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the kölner musiknacht: another performance paradigm
Some time ago, I wrote at length about my ensemble‘s last experiment with the audience-performer relationship through an alternative concert situation, our Unter Vier Ohren project. As I’ve been so focused on developing audience-performer/ensemble relationships, the Kölner Musiknacht seemed the … Continue reading
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Approaches to the performer/audience relationship: a case study
Over the last two weeks, my ensemble has collaborated with ensemble chronophonie on a fairly unusual concert presentation. Called Unter Vier Ohren (literally “under four ears” – “unter vier Augen” means “between the two of us”), we installed 7 musicians … Continue reading