Ronald Corp always wanted to be a composer and began composing music even before he was taught to play the piano. There were frequent opportunities for performances at school and University.

The first major work which he today acknowledges is the cantata 'And all the Trumpets Sounded' premiered by the Highgate Choral Society who commissioned it in 1989 and published by Stainer and Bell. Other choral works include Laudamus (1994) performed at St John's Smith Square by the London Chorus to great critical acclaim (the third performance of this work was given in a Gala Concert at the Royal Festival Hall), A New Song, (published by OUP 1999), Mary's Song, (2000) Adonai Echad (2000) and Jubilate(2008). Smaller works include We Will Remember Them, Verbum Patris Umanatur, There is no Rose, Missa San Marco (Stainer and Bell), Christmas Mass (Stainer and Bell) and Forever Child (OUP).

Sainsbury's commissioned Four Elizabethan Lyrics (OUP) for the Farnham Youth Choir, winners of their section of the Sainsbury Choir of the Year. Other compositions for children’s choir include Cornucopia (OUP), a cycle of songs with orchestra (1997), and its successor Kaleidoscope (2002). Both of these have been very successful and have achieved numerous performances. His Christmas opera Wenceslas was premiered in 1982. Of his numerous part songs and carols for children's choir the most notable are For a Child and All Ye Works of the Lord both with instrumental accompaniment, Cradle Song, Flower Songs and Hardy Songs.

He has written many solo songs including the cycles Flower of Cities, Miscellanie, The Music of Whitman and The Music of Wordsworth – the latter with obbligato clarinet.

Orchestral works include and a Piano Concerto (1997) heard in London at St John's Smith Square, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and most recently at the Cadogan Hall (‘this work is possibly the most winningly successful British Piano Concerto of the last forty years or so' Robert Matthew Walker), Guernsey Postcards, Concerto Grosso and a Symphony. A suite of Purcell arrangements for violin and strings was premiered in 2003 and again in a new version in 2008, and his orchestrations of Satie's Gnossiennes are featured in the film Chocolat.

Of his many instrumental compositions the Homage to Martinu for flute and piano (rev 2003) was performed at a Covent Garden recital and his String Quartet no 1 ‘The Bustard’ was premiered by the Maggini Quartet at the Wigmore Hall in 2008.

In 2003 BBC Radio 3 commissioned a major work for the BBC Singers - a setting of Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach, and this is featured on a disc of Corp’s choral music ‘Forever Child’ on Dutton CDLX 7171 performed by Voces Cantabiles under the composer’s direction.

A concert of Ronald Corp’s choral pieces and songs was given in 2007 at the Wigmore Hall.
 
Large scale community cantatas include Playing with Sun, Urban Voices, Our World, and Waters of Time (Wells Cathedral 2006). He is at present working on a major choral piece for St Edwards School, Romford.

Other new projects include a setting of verses of the Dhammapada, a second string quartet and an opera The Old Woman and the Mountain for the New London Children’s Choir.


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Philth : Drum & Bass from the deep end.

Since releasing his 100th track in 2017 Philth said he stopped counting, but the prolific artist has shown no sign of slowing down and continues to release music which reaches across the drum & bass scene, from smooth sultry grooves to tweaked-out tech stompers. The array of labels Philth has released on demonstrates his versatile sound: crew-status at Dispatch & Integral; tracks for scene stalwarts Spearhead, CIA, Playaz, Renegade Hardware, Chronic & Fokus; and regular appearances on next-gen imprints Flexout, Lifestyle and Peer Pressure.

The last few years have seen a stream of collaborative projects, including the chart-topping ‘Babylon Sound’ EP with Bredren, deep soul voyages with Phil Tangent as Phil:osophy and the ribcage crushing ‘Heimlich EP’ with long-term associate Wreckless. Connections with MC Fats, Collette Warren, Sense MC and Becca Jane Grey have affirmed his deft touch with vocals and ability to bring emotive songs to the dancefloor, demonstrating his versatility while maintaining consistency across his steady output.

But all the while he has been cherry-picking his favourites and hoarding a vast body of work, now ready to be unleashed as his debut album on Dispatch Recordings. ‘Moments in Time’ is made up of two LP’s of music, and displays the full range of the Philth sound while exploring new depths of emotion and ambient soundtrack-inspired works. Some of the usual suspects are called in for collaborations and vocal features, but there is a deeply personal streak running through the album with soul-searching vocals alongside the powerful basslines. Supported on dub by Goldie and road-tested by Philth & Ant TC1 over the last year, ‘Moments in Time’ can be now heard in the sets of long-time supporters Bailey, Marky, Randall, Artificial Intelligence and the extended Dispatch family. The album showcases an artist on top of his game and will surely elevate Philth into the upper reaches of the genre.

Known for his energy and commitment on three CDJ’s, Philth presents the drum & bass he loves in his own unique way, his sets veering from future soul to pulsating tech-funk in the blink of an eye - keeping audiences on their toes from start to finish with a mixture of smooth blends, sudden switches and his trademark razor sharp cuts. The longer he plays, the deeper he digs, always happy to resurrect the rolling Wormhole sound that inspired him from an early age. Based in London, in recent years he has toured the US and Australia along with regular trips across Europe’s club circuit and all over the UK. Wherever his music has taken him Philth has travelled with boundless enthusiasm and an arsenal of exclusive material. A true DJ who lives for the art of mixing.

Composed, arranged, performed, programmed, and produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

What is VÄLVĒ? Folk lullabies re-imagined by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Found-sound collages interrupted by Welsh language orations and sudden outbursts of fuzz bass. Gleaming synthpop workouts that collapse into swirling dreamscapes of sax and harp. Tiny sounds opening out onto the epic. Hi-tech and no-tech, deployed with equal measures of discipline and abandon. Carefully sculpted disorder. Uncanny geometries of noise and melody. Dizzy and gleeful and drawn in notebooks. That is VÄLVĒ.

VÄLVĒ  started out as the outlet for composer/performer Chlöe Herington’s compositional work using text and image as the starting point for scores. She collects sounds and diagrams, composing predominantly for bassoon, saxes, electronics and found sounds to explore synaesthetic memory and collective experience.

The band has morphed - from what originated as a solo project, performing mainly in art galleries, it grew to include Elen Evans on harp.  After moving from galleries back into music venues, they have been joined by Chlöe's Chrome Hoof comrade, Emma Sullivan on bass, microkorg and vocals.  Live, the music traverses the realms of noise and improv into songs, punctuated with found sounds and eases into spacey soundscapes.

UK bass producer based in Prague + Masquerave podcast head honcho

GET ON BANDCAMP - http://z-kat.bandcamp.com
MASQUERAVE PODCAST - www.masquerave.cz
CONTACT (Bookings/Remixes, etc.) - zeibura@gmail.com
SOCIALS ETC - http://linktr.ee/zeibura

Past Releases:

- Level Complete [Jon Dub Pack 2024]
- Eastern Soundboy [Fun Sponge 2024]
- Concrete Shadows / Routemaster [Low Pitched 2024]
- Z-Kat & SBSTRD – Car Hole Riddim [Nü Kvlture 2024]
- Boogie / Operate Remixes [Bandcamp 2023]
- Dryman & Z-Kat - Bylinná [Stand With Ukraine 2022]
- Microcosms EP [Bandcamp 2021]
- Crystal Caves / Helianthus [Bandcamp 2021]
- Dryman & Z-Kat - Vegan Rudeboy [Reloaded Sounds 2020]
- Pelikann - Enzyme (Z-Kat remix) [In:flux Audio 2020]
- The Forgotten EP [Low Pitched 2019]
- Colourless VIP [Heldenkellerz 2017]
- Opera Nebularum [Bandcamp 2016]
- Colourless EP [Bandcamp 2015]
- Žižkov Roadman EP [Bass Bucket 2015]
- Z-Kat &amp; Heapy - Delusion EP [Bandcamp 2014]
- Krejcárek [BiggBoss 2013]
- I Am The Sun [Don't Panic CD 2013]
- Pupula Ligata [Ty Vole?! 2013]
- Kanji Kinetic - Bang Harder (Z-Kat Remix) [Mutant Bass 2012]
- Burn Down The Sídliště [Bass Hound 2012]
- Dirty Talk Remixes EP [Bass Hound 2012]
- Submerse - Outbreak (Z-Kat Remix) [Off Me Nut 2011]
- Dryman &amp; Z-Kat - Chardonnay [LAMAt 2011]
- Dirty Talk [Bass Hound 2011]
- Side9000 - Speaker (Z-Kat Remix) [Mutant Bass 2011]
- Talavajda Remixes EP [Electrostimulation 2011]
- Infra-Red Lights [Temper D Productions 2011]
- Škraboška EP [Electrostimulation 2011]
- Lesbian Gangstas EP [Bass Hound 2011]
- Pseudoscientific Quackery [Electrostimulation 2010]
- Under Your Kilt feat. Sanna Hartfield [Electrostimulation 2009]
- Sophia [Bitcrusher 2009]
- NONEWYORK - Dance All Night Then Go Fuck (Z-Kat Remix) [Idiot House 2009]
- DeaD PersoN feat. Samara - You Lost The Game (Z-Kat Remix) [Electrostimulation 2008]

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