Period Piece

journeyMan is a collection of three compositions for mobile phone and ambulant listener. The journeyMan system uses the sensors on contemporary smartphones to propel the piece forw...

Scripts is a suite of four concert pieces that can work as a collection of short compositions in their own right or be played amongst other pieces in programmes of extreme and phys...

The Secretary of State is in charge of defining and implementing U.S. foreign policy. While that role has weakened some over the past 50 years, a mere roll call of illustrious past...

Telling music with science. It is the challenging goal behind Revealing Ravel: science tells Bolero, musical piece for reciting voice, multimedia and orchestra on the notes of the ...

This chapter explores the furniture music of French composer Erik Satie (1866–1925). Satie's pieces of furniture music are each fundamentally based on a short musical fragment, to ...

Sonikebana is a long-form composition designed for nine loudspeakers inside wooden boxes on wheels. The audience is invited to move the speakers around the room in order to shape t...

Today I’m struggling with a piece that should have taken an afternoon to write down. It appeared in the mist when summoned, almost on cue and apparently fully formed, but it has ta...

Terence’sEunuchus(first shown on stage in the second century BCE) was extremely successful at its first performance and has been influential ever since, having inspired allusions a...