I’m very pleased to have been selected to work with the Pop-Up Quartet at this year’s Cheltenham Music Festival Composer Academy, on the workshopping and performance of a new piece. The bespoke quartet will consist of Alex Wilson (piano), Simon Limbrick (percussion), Joel Bell (electric guitar) and Christian Forshaw (saxophone), and will be performing their newly commissioned works by academy composers on July 8th. For more details follow the link below –

http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/music/festival-plus/composer-academy/

My tune ‘El Churro’, along with the music of a broad selection of Brighton Bands and solo artists (including Le Juki), is featured on New York radio show Breakthru Radio this month, led by host DJ Lottie. You can hear the show here…

http://www.breakthruradio.com/#/post/?dj=djlottie&post=3993&blog=30&autoplay=1

I’ll be playing guitar in a new work for male voice choir by Helen Glavin called ‘The Sword Of Freedom’, commemorating the 750th anniversary of the Battle Of Lewes. According to a sussexpast.co.uk…

“The Battle of Lewes, won by Simon de Montfort on May 14,1264, was part of an English civil war aimed at getting better, fairer government.  After his victory over King Henry III, de Montfort set about calling Britain’s first ever representative parliament.”

UK premiere will take place today at Lewes Town Hall, 7.30pm. The piece will be premiered simultaneously in Lewes, Delaware, USA, so you can decide which one to attend.

Another video from the ‘A Hidden Order’ exhibition. Music from the album of the same name (see music page).

I’m enormously pleased to be able to count myself amongst Sound and Music’s ‘New Voices’ composers for the period 2014-2015. New Voices consists of all the selected Portfolio and Embedded composers from the last two years, what SaM deem to be “some of the most exciting early to mid-career composers working in Britain today”, and there are certainly a lot of very cool names in there that I’m more than happy to see mine amongst!

In addition to the respective Portfolio and Embedded concerts which will be coming up over the next few months, the Google Cultural Institute will also be hosting an online exhibition of New Voices works in July this year, so keep your eyes peeled for that. You can check out the New Voices site here –

http://newvoices.soundandmusic.org/new-voices

I have also been invited to write a blog documenting the process of composing under the Portfolio scheme for London-based choir MusArc, which will be published on the SaM Sampler Blog page in the coming months. More on that to come…

Good people of the multiverse, I’m very, very pleased to present to you my first release in some time – ‘A Hidden Order’, a collaboration with geometer Sama Mara. The project, in essence, is a study on the relationship between music and geometry. Through the use of a new system devised by Sama whereby music is translated into visuals through a set of rigorous geometric principles, we have been exploring the space where these two worlds meet harmoniously. The album ‘A Hidden Order’ features a new suite of 10 pieces for a mixed ensemble of flute (Philippe Barnes), cor anglais (Suzie Shrubb), marimba/percussion (Adam Bushell) and cello (Susie Winkworth). The music was composed alongside the imagery, one feeding into the other. This release is available on CD (a very limited edition press of 150 copies in 4-page digipack with 16-page booklet featuring documentation of the compositional process alongside details of the accompanying artwork), and as digital download, HERE.

The exhibition ‘A Hidden Order’ will take place at the Prince’s School Of Traditional Arts, Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, between 20th-29th March. Live performances (a multimedia concert of live music and realtime visualisation) will take place in the exhibition space on 20th & 27th March, 7pm, £8/5. Tickets are available HERE.

Here’s the first video from the exhibition/album ‘A Hidden Order’, a collaboration between myself and geometer Sama Mara.

The exhibition will run between 19th-28th March @ The Prince’s School Of Traditional Arts, Shoreditch, with live performances on 20th & 28th March.

The album ‘A Hidden Order’ will be available for download right here from the beginning of March.

I’ve just this minute been sent the first full render of the trailer for ‘Dear Little Emmie’, an animation by Adam Oehlers (yes indeedy, the very same man who did the artwork for my debut album ‘To Sleep’) featuring music by yours truly. I’m assured that the final cut is only days away, and I can’t wait to be able to share it with you! In the meantime, here’s a little snapshot from the trailer as a taster for what’s in store –

For more regular updates, visit the Dear Little Emmie Facebook Page

Islamic Arts Magazine have published an article about the upcoming ‘A Hidden Order’ exhibition, with specifics about the show, some previews of the artwork and the teaser video –

http://islamicartsmagazine.com/magazine/view/a_hidden_order_-_where_music_and_geometry_fuse/

Here is a link to the Sound And Music ‘Portfolio’ scheme homepage, through which I’ve been commissioned to write a new work for London-based choir MusArc, for performance this Summer in The Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey. Lots of other cool composers and improvisers on the scheme, so check it out.

http://soundandmusic.org/projects/portfolio-2013-14

In conjunction with this, Sound And Music have made me one of their ‘New Voices’ featured composers for 2014-2015, under which a selection of my works will be published by Composers Edition. Basically, well chuffed.