Bofan's new piece for stereo electroacoustics, 2013.
Premiered in the New Electroacoustic Concert at the David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London, 1st July 2013.

Beclouded

Performed by Fanny Vicens, accordion.
Recorded live at soyuz21 concert, «De l'excès du son», Zurich on June 4, 2014

Franck Bedrossian – Bossa Nova for accordion solo (2008)

Realisation of James Saunders' the range of outside factors influencing it, as well as its own radius of action.

River Exe, near Fortescue Farm, Devon

"Arrangement" of the famous Bach aria for a sound installation in Hannover (2009). 

Widerstehe doch der Sünde

Patchwork 
Noa Even, soprano saxophone
Stephen Klunk, drumset

Axamer Folio is a modular network of 24 pieces for saxophone and drumset, with no pre-set order, form, or duration. 

The individual pieces (which include duos, solos, and duos that can be separated and combined with other pieces) project a small number of musical objects in an extremely diverse range of performative and notational contexts, from rigorously specified to indeterminate, graphic, and text scores; from tightly synchronized duo music to phasing loops, list structures, and free improvisation.

RINN is a single module from Patchwork's 20-minute version of the piece. 

live performance
May 15, 2016
Constellation, Chicago


RINN (saxophone and drumset), from Axamer Folio [2015]

Distractfold live at Kammer Klang, Café Oto, October 4, 2016.
Instrumental performance, expressive signal processing, looping and live track mixing by Linda Jankowska, Emma Richards and Alice Purton. 
Recorded by Shaun Crook.
Mixed by Mauricio Pauly.
Mastered by Richard Scott.

Charred Edifice Shining, for amplified string trio

c (2016). RTE National Symphony of Orchestra of Ireland conducted by Gavin Maloney

"In a world become blind, I beat the drum of the Deathless."  Ariyapariyesana Sutta

WET INK ENSEMBLE
Josh Modney, violin
Eric Wubbels, piano

Live performance at Roulette (NYC)
Darmstadt Institute New York 70th Anniversary Celebration
May 9, 2016

MATHIAS SPAHLINGER: extension (1979/80)
for violin and piano

(Part I)*
exposition n1 [0:00]
exspiration [12:10]
extempore I [18:32]

(Part II)
exposition n2 [23:28]
exklamation = exhumation III [32:58]
exposition n4a = extempore Va = extrapolation n4a [41:30]
exposition n4b - extrapolation n4b = extempore Vb (=exequien?) [49:25]
ex post n [54:48]

*this is an informal guide for navigation through the piece, rather than an exhaustive list of movements

MATHIAS SPAHLINGER: extension (1979/80)

Taking place entirely in one room, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is a chamber opera in one act based on the story of the same name by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). The story is centered on a nameless young woman’s descent into psychosis as her mental health issues, namely post-natal depression, are left misunderstood.
The woman and her physician husband, John, move into a spacious and airy mansion, which he believes will help her health to improve by undergoing the rest cure; a common treatment developed in the late 1800s for the handling of hysteria and other nervous illnesses. With nothing to stimulate her mind, the woman becomes growingly obsessed with the yellow, distressed wallpaper that covers the room and her imagination begins to run wild as she starts to believe it is moving and coming alive. As her fascination with the wallpaper spirals out of control, so does her quest to break free.
© GEM 2016

Commissioned by the Helios Collective. 
Performed at ENO Lilian Baylis House, London (25/11/16)

Conducted by Tamara Lorenzo Gabeiras 
Directed by Guido Martin-Brandis

The Woman - Isolde Roxby 
John - James Quilligan 
Jennie/The Lady In The Paper - Ayaka Tanimoto

Photo: Nick Rutter

The Yellow Wallpaper (2016)

Performed by Bastard Assignments.

Edward Henderson - organ, voice and piano
Tim Cape - percussion and bass
Caitlin Rowley - vocals and viola
Josh Spear - bass clarinet and piano.

Recorded live by the BBC at the Aldeburgh Festival.

Flower

I'm from China, currently based in the UK. I make some music, and occasionally curate some gigs.

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Beclouded

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