Festival Audiograft 2017 WEDNESDAY 8TH MARCH AT 9PM Headington Hill Hall Brookes Uni Oxford A late evening performance by Késia Decoté (piano) & Bruno Guastalla (cello + bandoneon) Hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep. Listening, falling asleep, reading a book, dreaming, being at a concert. We encourage audience members […]
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http://www.cafereason.com/main/dolls_house.htm An abandoned dolls’ house and an unclaimed bag of costumes were the unexpected starting point for Café Reason‘s enigmatic new show. Through the compelling medium of butoh, with live music and film, it explores the dream symbol of ‘The House’ and reveals the inhabitants’ secret lives and eternal dilemmas. Dark, moving, and humorous, the performance uses an original musical […]
My friend Dan Goren asked me to write an article for the online magazine of the Institute of Composing. There is a link here to the magazine, the short article I wrote is about the cello, extended technique, and whether talking of extended technique is altogether useful.
Oxford Improvisers presents: M Y C E L I U M The December 2014 version of Oxford Improvisers’ monthly gig is a wondrously stringy, rosiny, woody, sonorous, resonant, unique event. I am delighted that all these musicians are able to come and play: Violin: Sylvia Hallett, Alison Blunt, Philipp Wachsmann, Eric Clarke, Malcolm Atkins Viola: […]
(The title an homage to Michael Pisaro!) South Oxford Community Centre Lake Street Oxford 18/19 May 2014 24/25/26 May 2014 with contact microphones placed on windows and window frames, vibrations of the building and sounds from the inside and outside are picked up and played in a separate adjacent room. Because of the proximity between […]
AN EVENING OF MANY DELIGHTS: TWO FRENCH MELODEON STARS plus OXFORD BASED COMPANY ‘ M U E ‘ (DANCE/SOUND/LIGHT) Emmanuel Pariselle and Christian Maes are two first-class performers from the French traditional music scene. They play music from the folk traditions of Brittany and other regions of France, but do not shy away from many […]
Strad violins played, shown, and talked about by Clemency Burton-Hill with help of Jennifer Pike. beautifully produced short film, directed by Katy Homan (some of it is shot in our workshop at Oxford Violins!)
The small label of contemporary and improvised music ‘another timbre‘ has put online many realisations of Manfred Werder’s text score ‘2005/1’. it is all here, with the opportunity to savour the diversity of readings which were done, so far by fourteen people, also to explore the richness of the whole catalogue. I contributed a slightly […]
From the 13th June 2013 the ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM in Oxford is hosting a remarkable exhibition of instruments by ANTONIO STRADIVARI. See their website for details. This is a rare event: 21 of the best Strads are being brought, as are tools and drawings from Stradivari’s workshop from the museum in Cremona There is a concert […]
