David Arrowsmith - electric guitar. Paul Newland - electric guitar

exquisite corpse

music composed by Martin Arnold (2019); words: traditional
performed by:
Sharron Kraus: voice; bamboo flute
Angharad Davies: voice; violin
Martin Arnold: melodica
BBC Scottish Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

The Gay Goshawk (excerpt)

Performed by Lara Agar (violin), Darius Paymai (harmonium), Christian Drew (guitar) and myself (keyboard, electronics & guitar) / October 2021 / London

Willow Hymn

performed by Juliet Fraser and Mark Knoop 
Musica Sacra, Maastricht
sept. 2021 (world prem.)

Commissioned by Juliet Fraser for The Carson Commissions

Music video here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1DsXHyqlhI
more info: https://laraagar.com/This-Unquiet-Autumn

this unquiet autumn - juliet fraser

It's no. 8 in The Lovin' Room, and Test Explosion (@test_explosion) aka Ollie has served up a delicious blend of minimal beats, IDM and jungle influenced sounds. 

"
This mix has been lying in a dormant phase for a quite a long time, during which I was listening to a lot of music by Grischa Lichtenberger (@grischenka) and other artists on Raster, and slowly materialised as I discovered more and more minimal/experimental tracks around the 90/180 mark. Along with those, it’s interspersed with a few more musical flavours, just because I wanted the mix to encapsulate everything I’m consuming at the moment.
"

Alongside an ear for glitched out and IDM influenced sounds, it's Ollie’s passion for photography which has led to his involvement in various music scenes. Back in the day, he was the main photographer for Wax Rooms, and since moving to London, he’s been the photographer for Zenrei's (@zen_rei) newly released hip-hop project. 
Check out his website below and hit him up for all things related to music, photography, Guinness or pool.

www.olivermckenzie.com

With love x

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Tracklist:

snt 2cx - Grischa Lichtenberger
Perception (Forest Drive West Remix) - Es.tereo
Under The Sun - Mark Prichard 
The Mountain - Deadbeat 
Earwig - Pearson Sound 
Flicker.Funk - Frank Bretschsneider 
530 - NHK’Koyxen
Soft Touch - Parris 
Ruellia Tube - Jurango
Sonsuz Rüzgar - Konduku
Aquamarine - Ehua
Nord - Fareed
Get It - DJ Haram ft. Orion Sun
SYX - Batu
Swerve... the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding) - Shabazz Palaces
Space 2 - Nala Sinephro 
Non-Existant (Keyed In By Gescom) - Push Button Objects
Reflection - Loraine James

The Lovin' Room 008 ~ Test Explosion

Commissioned and performed by Prague Quiet Music Collective

Part of a project called 'Five Uncertain Situations' with Prague City Gallery. Exhibition and concert at Dům U kamenného zvonu (Stone Bell House), Old Town Square, Prague in December 2022.

Bass clarinet - Anna Paulová
Baritone electric guitar - Ian Mikyska
Violin - Milan Jakeš
Double bass - Luan Goncalves

Mixed by Juraj Mišejka

This piece was written in response to a set of photograms from Aleksandra Vajd’s The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, which features two parallel lines, each changing colour halfway. To me this work is about things in flux, things moving toward or away from something else. In my piece, I am interested in how players might focus on periods of instability and change within and between sounds. By leaving the score more open, I hope to provide more space for the players to follow their curiosity and their ears, to be responsive to the sounds and to each other in the moment. - SL

"Sylvia’s piece is a rare occurrence: a simple, relatively undefined score that does not provide instructions for formal development over the entirety of the piece, yet immediately, the first time we rehearsed it, it was clear that the piece had a clear-cut character and a complex web of internal relationships. The simplicity and directness of Vajd’s photograms is here transformed into a focus on all the chaotic and noisy shadows, interferences, and byproducts that appear when players are tasked with exploring well-chosen, fluctuating effects and various transitions between them. Here, instability is always present at multiple levels — perhaps we could even speak of an interaction between instabilities, a dusty sonic layer covering the simple material play of the photograms." - Ian Mikyska

Overlapping Transformations (2022)

for soloist and 3-4 players

written for Daniel Fardon’s concert series Purcell // Parallels, in celebration of The Purcell School’s 60th anniversary

performed by students from the Purcell School: Mina, Jacqueline, Antonia, Da In and Aaron
on 3rd July 2023

things we overheard

b. clarinet, e. guitar, percussion,  violin, ‘cello
written for Plus-Minus Ensemble

this performance by Plus-Minus Ensemble cond. Mark Knoop, Milton Court Concert Hall (UK), 21-06-2024
as part of the Guildhall MMus Composers' Showcase and Making It festival

quintet (2024) [Plus Minus]

beautiful performance by the wonderful pianist Richard Casey recorded by Steve Plews (prima-facie)

nagahama fragments (2012) 

(twenty fragments for piano)

a piano fragment written each day during a summer spent in Hiroshima, Japan. August 6th is the day in 1945 when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15am. “Little Boy” is the name given to the bomb by the servicemen aboard the Enola Gay.

Aug. 1st	0’:00”	mangetsu (full moon)
Aug 2nd	1’:08”
Aug 3rd	3’:45”
Aug 4th	5’:04”
Aug 5th	6’:11”
Aug 6th 	6’:48”	little boy
Aug 7th	8’:38”
Aug 8th	9’:03”
Aug 14th	10’:30”
Aug 15th	11’:56”
Aug 17th	12’:18”
Aug 18th	13’:17”
Aug 19th	13’:44”	umi (seto nai kai) – the inland sea
Aug 20th	14’:54”
Aug 21st	15’:00”
Aug 22nd 15’:20”
Aug 23rd 16’:21”
Aug 24th	16’:56”
Aug 25th	17’:58”
Aug 26th	18’24”

nagahama fragments

pf Explore Ensemble
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Nov 2020, @ BBC Maida Vale

Sentimental drifting music

Performed by Orkest de Ereprijs, Utrecht, Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2016

this unquiet autumn - juliet fraser

Lara Agar

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