DREAM MUSICS

Composed by Alex Paxton

Played by London Sinfionetta at Southbank Center. MArch 31 2022.
Tim Anderson,
Aga Serugo-lugo
Alex Paxton

Candyfolk Space - Drum. Excerpt. Alex Paxton

Dream musics trio

Elliot Galvin
Jay Davis
Alex Paxton

Harpy. (excerpt)

ShrimpBit Baby-Face (excerpt)

Rescue Jam (excerpt)

London Sinfionetta , London Jazz Festival
Lauren Kinsella
Alex Paxton

Meany Live(excerpt)

Dream Musics Ensemble
Percusion & Harpsichord

Just Gum Friends (excerpt)

Children's Chorus. Piano
Music and words Alex Paxton.
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PUDDING TUMMY!

'Now We are Duh-Dur' is a musical explosion of its nonsense tittle.

Fantasies that feed this musical excitement include the development of 
language in early forms of humans, the delivery of lines by an actor,  
a mother’s lullaby and the smalltalk of beloved friends.

Now We are Duh-Dur. Movements I & II. Orchestra

For Baritone Saxophone and tape.
David Zucchi -Baritone Saxophone
Prayer, 1. LIKE in HOT PINK

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Prayer, LIKE in HOT PINK

um...well...so what happened was…I left her and let the silhouette of cold kettle and cigarette regret the bowl of alphabetti-spaghetti (microwaved merely for mother and formality) HESITATE before collecting my clear set plastic-bag-pound-shop-polythingime-jacket, kept for the inevitable onset of precipitation, and ran with it! racing towards my expecting-spectating lover excitedly excreting perspiration. O HOW EXHILARATING not to fret or forget but CELEBRATE the sensual secreting of sweet freshly flesh sweating redolence, that at first lay low kept abated by slow biology yet only delayed by later bacterial changes when you bet once warm inside without warning it leapt and let out a mighty cry of “RAINY RAIN SMELLS”


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excerpt from shakespearean inspired FOOL in the RAIN, Song cycle. 
For Ensemble X.Y SONG. 6 singers and Rhythm Section

Christine buras
Lotte betts-dean
Patrick Terry
William Cole
Ben Rowarth
Dan D'Souza

David Ingermells Drums
Felix Josza Guitar
Alex Paxton Tuba

EVERY DAY. Vocal ensemble and Rhythm-section

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Counter tenor
Sop Sax / kazzos
Alto Sax / kazzos
2 trombones
2 Synths/ melodicas
Drum Kit
Violin
Cello

Patrick Terry
Matt Herd (solo)
David Ingermells (solo)
Kalliopi Mitropoulou
Mike Newman
David Zucchi
Alex Paxton

Purple-Tree Tapestry

Now We are Duh-Dur II. Duh-Dur 

Principal Flute - Taylor Maclennan
Principal Oboe - Lavinia Redman
Principal Clarinet - Alex Roberts
Principal Bassoon - Izabela Musial

Principal Horn - Lucy Smith
Principal Trombone, Trumpet & Tuba - Alex Paxton

Harp - Elizabeth Bass
Piano - Haruki Murakami
Percussion - Violet Beauregarde

Solo Violin - Lasma Taimina
Principal Violin - Kalliopi Mitropoulou
Principal Viola - Victoria Bernath
Principal Cello - Mike Newman
Principal Bass -Gwen Reed

Recorded in 2018 by Purple-tree Tapestry Orchestra at Pride of London studios. Supported by the Harriet Cohen Memorial Music Award.

Now We are Duh-Dur was written for a performance in 2017 at St John Smith’s Square by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Foyles Future Firsts. Supported by Leverhulme Arts Scholarship.


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Now We are Duh-Dur II

Alex Paxton's Dream Musics.

David Zucchi - Saxophones
Alex Paxton - Trombone
Felix Jozsa - Guitars
David Ingamells - Drums

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Prayer Like Hot Pink

Alex Paxton's Dream Musics.

Alyson Frazer - Flutes
David Zucchi - Saxophones
Alex Paxton - Trombone
Felix Jozsa - Guitar
Christine Buras - Soprano
David Ingamells - Drums
Emma Purslow - Violin & Viola
Mike Newman - Cello

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Prayer With Strings.

Alex Paxton's Dream Musics.

Alyson Frazier - Flutes
David Zucchi - Saxophones
Alex Paxton - Trombone
Felix Jozsa - Guitars
David Ingamells - Drums
Emma Purslow - Viola

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Night Pictures

Alex Paxton's Dream Musics.

David Zucchi - Saxophones
Alex Paxton - Trombone
Felix Jozsa - Guitar
Harriet Burns - Soprano
David Ingamells - Drums

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In The Darkness

Alex Paxton's Dream Musics.

David Zucchi - Saxophones
Alex Paxton - Trombone
Felix Jozsa - Guitar
David Ingamells - Drums

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Like I Know

Matthew Herd - Reeds (SOLO)
Jonathan Chung  - Reeds
David Zucchi  - Reeds
Alexander Roberts - Reeds
Mike Soper - Trumpets
Alex Paxton - Trombones (SOLO)
David Ingamells - Drums
Rob Brockway - Pianos
Joe Downard - Bass

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Rosy Fingered Dawn

Concerto for Jazz-Musician & Orchestra. Composed by Alex Paxton.
2.2.2.2 4.2.3.1 2Perc.Tmp.Hp Strings 10.8.6.4.2 

Od Ody Pink'd was written for the Alex Paxton and Royal National Scottish Orchestra and recorded here by the  Alex Paxton & Puple-Tree Tapestry Orchestra  (2019)

Principals
Taylor Maclennan - Flute
Lavinia Redman - Oboe
Alexander Roberts - Clarinet
Izabela Musial - Bassoon
Gwyn Owen - Trumpet
Alex Paxton - Trombone
Lasma Taimina - Violin
Clifton Harrison - Viola
Cecilia Wyld - Cello
Gwen Reed - Bass



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Od Ody Pink'd. Concerto for Jazz-Musician & Orchestra.

Emma Smith
Sam Watts
Sandy Suchodolski
Scott Chapman

Sue Paterson
Dan Oats
Chloé van Soeterstède
Laura May Hammonds


Not While i'm around (arr. Alex Paxton-RS, Strings and Emma Smith)

IlolliPop. Alex Paxton - Trombone and Composition.
Ensemble Modern. Conducted my Enno Poppe. (25mins)
CRASHKURS HUMAN__MACHINE

Illolipop. Excerpt. Alex Paxton. Ensemble Modern

Alex (1990),"A riotous overabundance of love and rage..an extraordinary experience” The Wire Magazine, is an award-winning composer & improvising-trombonist based in the UK. His Music is published by Ricordi (Berlin). "highly innovative...of exceptional creative imagination and musical energy, packed with life force unlike anything else” BBC Magazine Ivor Novello British Composer Awards.

Alex has been awarded the Paul Hindemith Prize, and Ivor Novello Composer He was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award for 2022 and was elected to the 9th International Composition Seminar and awarded a commission ILOLLI-POP for Improviser and Ensemble which he played with Ensemble Modern. He has been awarded by the London Sinfonietta’s Writing the Future commission CANDYFOLK- SPACE-DRUM  and has won the RPS Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, DANKWORTH JAZZ prize for composition BYE and was made a London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Composer. Alex played and recorded his concerto OD ODY PINk’d for Jazz Musician and Royal National Scottish Orchestra (RSNO). He was a Leverhume Art Scholar with the London Philharmonic Orchestra 2016-2017: NOW WE ARE DUH-DUR and has been awarded the Harriet Cohen Memorial Music Award for his compositions. His piece SPAKE represented the UK in the Orchestral section of the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM). He is a commissioned contributor to John Zorn’s Arcana X 2021. "Paxton is a system-crasher of genre, who merges jamming video game soundtracks, musical overtures, virtuoso chamber music and jazz improv into an unmistakable style...highly complex, sophisticated and extremely entertaining, virtuoso ad absurdum" Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik

His albums to date as a composer: MUSIC for BOSCH PEOPLE and iLOLLI-POP released to critical acclaim on Birmingham Record Company/ NMC label and nonclassical. Listen Pony Label (TELLSONG), Indigne de nous on Everest Records and leading Spotify playlists. HAPPY MUSIC for ORCHESTRA released on Delphian Label in  April 2023. “This is the most joyous sound I’ve heard in ages!”New York Times

His music has been played/recorded/ commissioned by leading orchestras and ensembles including Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), Philharmonia Orchestra, AskSchöenberg, Riot Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, Wigmore hall, Explore Ensemble, Klammer Klang, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), National Youth Orchestra (BBC proms 2021), Making Music (UK), Ensemble x.y, x.y Song, Hyper Duo, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO), National Youth Jazz Orchestra (UK) NYJO, Listen-Pony, Aldeburgh Festival, Psappha Ensemble, Orion Symphony Orchestra OSO, Helios Collective, Chaos Collective Orchestra, Mirrors of Hall Big Band, Dr. K Sextet, 5KBrass Quintet, RAM Philharmonic and RCM Philharmonic and soloists Zubin Kanger, Tabea Debus, Beibei Wang, Patrick Terry, David Zucchi. “This is what an orchestra can be like in the 21st century: an ensemble that speaks with one voice yet also gives voice to each of its members” The Times

He has written six operas including NOGGIN and the WHALE (Massed forces including 500 young instrumentalists and singes) FOR the LOVE of THORNSTIEN SHIVER hosted by English National Opera and Helios Collective, BEL and the DRAGON as part of the Tête à Tête opera festival, the EQUIVOCAL HARRIET BOWDLER at Second Movement Opera and WOOLF MUSIC at the Forge in Camden and RAVEN’s CHILD for Jacob Colier and Orchestra.
“Operatic Game Boy music played by a virtuosic motley crew that’s inexplicably been hired to provide live jingles for a primetime TV show sometime in the recent past that never quite was” Point of departure

As an improvising and jazz trombonist Alex has played as a soloist with Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta,  Riot Ensemble, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), & ensemble x.y. He is founder of Dreammusics ensemble and performs regularly with pioneering improvisers (eg: Charlotte Keeffe, Steve Noble). “meticulously scored…seems to change with every bar, enfolding bite-size pieces of classic minimalism, brass brand tradition, electronic noise, & video game plasticity..intensely virtuosic and giddily joyful. electronically slathered trombone…Paxton is a monster improviser …connects his garrulous attack to the most extroverted playing of George Lewis & Roswell Rudd..." Bandcamp Daily Best Contemporary Classical.

Extensively, Alex writes art-music for musicians in community settings including, innovative ways of writing for young instrumentalists & singers in a post-Roald Dahl world of new-music.  eg: NOGGIN and the WHALE (Massed forces including 500 young instrumentalists and singes), Fly Like a Kitchen, Muffin, Pudding Tummy and The Sound of Magic. He is professorial composition staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and has worked as lead-composition tutor (and workshop leader) on the National Youth Orchestra GB, he has taught/ lectured at composition and improvisation at conservatories including, RAM, GSMD & RCM (and multiple universities in the UK). “one of the most exceptional voices from a new generation of UK talent” The Philharmonia Orchestra

Alex studied as a scholar at Royal Academy of Music (BMushons1stclass)and LRAM (Distinction) and the Royal College of Music (MComp Distinction).“a Brit who defies every conceivable genre boundary…an extremely modern and future-oriented style.” Paul Hindemith Prize winner 2023

Alex is an endorsee solo artist with Micheal Rath Trombones since 2023 (R12 nickel bell & tuning slide).

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