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News:

I am currently a guest in the new composition studios at Birmingham Southern College. I am using a Kyma system.

Gravity's is scheduled for the 17th Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival in April, 2008

Monday the 5th of March, Craig Hultgren again played Analogies of Control.It was performed at at the Hulsey Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Art critic Michael Huebner reviews it here: http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/117360474467630.xml&coll=2

Glasgow trumpet player Drew Petrie, performed K, a work in a similar idiom to Parables and Analogies of Control. Slide trumpet sounds were deconstructed for the accompaniment part and "other" sounds are used for the audio model. Drew described the work in the program notes as "revolutionary" Thanks Drew! I enjoyed the recording, and hope to hear it live one day soon.

In Paris (18-19 Novembre) and Turin (1-2 Dicembre) in the 6th FESTIVAL LICENCES: The Transatlantic Half-Pipe. The concert program was enormous. Many good composers, great locations. The concert was dedicated to Luc Ferrari. I attended the Turin version. Very nice, very strange. Wonderful audience

Thomas Gardner, cellist, premiered a new type of work for fixed sound and cello in Liverpool, Tuesday, the 29th of November. The work, Analogies of Control uses an audio model in place of a written score. The sounds are delivered via headphones to the cellist who then "mimics" the sounds in the model. The "score" sounds are not cello derivations, but the accompanying (diffused) sounds are. Details on the technique are found on my research site and are the focus of one aspect of my PhD research. The solo studies for this work, and the papers describing the technique were presented at DMU's annual research review, and the Digital Music Research Network Summer Conference 2005 in Glasgow.

Performances:

Electroacoustiques universitŽ Concordia university Electroacoustics
This is Not a Model plays(ed) on Wednesday 12, Oct. at Concordia's Black Box theatre.

University of Glasgow, Digital Music Music Research Network, July 2005: Between Dog and Wolf

University of York, July, 2005The Transatlantic Half-Pipe

Experimental Music Showcase, in Aberdeen, Scotland, presented works of "phonography". A concert of audio veritŽ. A recording of a confrontation between a drug boss and a paranoid customer,Territorial Dispute, was my contribution. More information at Bill Thompson's pages.

ICMC 2004, Miami: Anyone interested in having Cross Country Runner please get in touch. I will gladly include the newest work, Taut.

WALTER FABECK and KREEPA present UNDERKURRENT, July 16 in London, on the Thames.
Pioneering UK musicians Kreepa and Walter Fabeck present a very special event featuring improvised electronic music, invented instruments, sound sculptures, new electroacoustic works, a boat trip on the Thames plus DJ sets from Nicholas James Bullen (founder of Napalm Death and Scorn) and the Soul Jazz Sound System. The event also features the brilliant British saxophonist Paul Dunmall and Trevor Taylor performing on Baschet sound sculptures.    This qualifies as the coolest gig I've been on. My contribution was one on the riverboat called Thames, Ticks, and Locks. It is now called Mastersplasher.

Cross Country Runner/Glint played in June at Sonic Arts Network's Sound Circus at De Montfort University In Leicester, UK

The Transatlantic Half-Pipe was performed in the May Soundings in Edinburgh.
Performed Andrew Lewis' Ascent at The Ocean, in London as a part of the BMIC "Cutting Edge" series, featuring music from BEAST.
The new San Francisco Tape Music Center (nSFTMC) presented The Transatlantic Half-Pipe at their second festival, on Sunday, August 18, 2002.
New York University's New Music and Dance Ensemble under the direction of Esther Lamneck, performed Confluence and Effloresce on March 13th and May 6th at the Frederick Lowe Theatre 35 West 4th Street. NYU performed it again in Pisa, Italy the 19th of July, for a performance in the San Zcno church.

Audio Download:

The Transatlantic Half-Pipe: More than 10MB. To save bandwidth, download.
This is Not a Model is available on Presence III along with a couple of dozen plus composers.
The free-improv-noise team Liquid Brick has just released Extinct on MP3.com. Go get it now!

PhantomLimb gives it away when it gets there. MP3 free for the taking.
Between Dog and Wolf is available from CDEMusic at the Electronic Music Foundation. You'll find it on the ICMC 2000 CD.
Confluence and Efflouresce: Greater than 10MB.

Papers:

Cognitive Dynamics and Semantic Spreading in This is Not a Model.
A paper about control and communication between the studio and the composer through the analysis of a thermodynamic fantasy. Presented at InterSymp 2003

Performance and the "Aural Score"
Presented at the DMRN Summer Conference 2005 The University of Glasgow, 23rd - 24th July.

Radio:

Occasionally there are adventurous radio stations that threaten the public malaise with dangerous music. Some have web streams as well.

CKCU-FM
KZSU
KSER 90.7 FM
WMBC for Art@Radio
3ccc-fm 89.5
WHUS
WLUW

There are, of course, many others, and I would be happy to list them if you send me the link.