music we'd like to hear, 13 july 2005
performed by laurence crane, angharad davies, rhodri davies, catherine kontz, john lely, sam mirelman, ross parfitt, tim parkinson, michael parsons, john stephen, markus trunk and john white

cornelius cardew - schooltime compositions

FIRMAMENT, for organ solo (2025) 
I. 
II. 
III. 
IV.

Michael Bonaventure, organ

premièred at THE SONORITY CABINET IX (The SKY CABINET) 
Grote Kerk, Oosthuizen, The Netherlands 
25 SEP 2025

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FIRMAMENT IV

FIRMAMENT II

FIRMAMENT III

FIRMAMENT I

Completely created with VSTs and a sax on top :-) ... enjoy !

With the Tides

First performance -- 1 November 2025

Ekmeles + Mivos Quartet. DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY

O Maria (2024-25) for six voices and string quartet

Saxophone quartet (composed in 2025)

Performed and recorded at:
Jugend komponiert Brandenburg, 25.10.2025
30. Landeswettbewerb & Kompositionswerkstatt 
Preisträgerkonzert im Schlosstheater Rheinsberg

Performers: 
Aduma Quartett
Irina Yudaeva - Soprano saxophone
Christian Schilf - Alto saxophone 
Yunxi Cheng - Tenor saxophone
Kathrin von Kieseritzky - Baritone saxophone

Dietrich Petzold (Tonus Arcus) - Mixing and mastering

A project of Landesmusikrates Brandenburg e.V.
Funded by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture of the State of Brandenburg.

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recipient of 1st prize of 30. Landeswettbewerb & Kompositionswerkstatt Jugend komponiert Brandenburg

Deformed Fractals

World premiere performance
From the concert “your [voice] will not protect [us]”
BRUSEUM, Graz, Austria — October 30, 2025

Using original texts from ancient Greek poet Erinna
Alyssa Aska
🔗 https://www.alyssa-aska.com

🎶 Performers:

Callum Armstrong – Aulos
🔗 https://callumarmstrong.co.uk/

Rosa Fragorapti – 7-String Ancient Greek Lyre
🔗    / @rosafragorapti7lyre  

Angela Hicks – Soprano
🔗 https://www.angelahickssoprano.com/

The Distaff - for aulos, 7-string ancient Greek lyre, and voice

Conrad Tao's September 2025 performance of "One Hundred Thousand Billion Pieces for Piano & Computer" on Nova Linea Musica’s “Echoes and Algorithms” concert in Chicago. Recorded by Aphorism Studios.

One Hundred Thousand Billion Pieces for Piano & Computer (2025)



Buoy is a track from tlith soil, the album newly realized by RAGE Thormbones, published on Marginal Frequency, and will release on 9 December 2025
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RAGE Thormbones delivers a profound auditory experience on tilth soil, blending raw energy with textured soundscapes. The album navigates through intense rhythmic layers and rich tonal shifts, creating a dynamic interplay between organic and industrial elements. Each track builds upon a foundation of gritty instrumentation and atmospheric depth, reflecting themes of growth, resilience, and transformation — much like the fertile soil suggested by the title.

For over a decade, trombonist/composers Mattie Barbier and Weston Olencki have consistently pushed the outer limits of what brass instruments are capable of. Working in the spaces between contemporary composition, drone, noise, and electroacoustics, RAGE has sought to emulate the electronic with acoustic means, transforming their trombones from orchestral accompaniment into a high density wall of resonance. tilth soil marks a new direction from their previous work. Instead of merely playing the horn with unconventional techniques, the duo physically uses the instruments (and a bevy of microphones) in order to extend the horns’ vibrational spectrum. They shift the trombone away from its place as a clarion call into a stethoscopic ear, listening from where an instrument normally speaks. Buoy sounds from microphones placed inside two horns while they float in the harbor of Bergen, Norway. The lamps are going out uses room resonance captured at the Museum of Jurassic Technology to house overlain, multilayered excerpts of JUZ (A Yodel Cry) by Wolfgang von Schweinitz, the work acting as a tribute to Barbier’s mentor and predecessor at the California Institute of the Arts.

By digging deep into the physical processes of their instruments, RAGE seeks to uncover a wide field of sonic possibilities, blurring the boundaries between human breath and air-powered sound. tilth soil presents this new material in a visceral, dimensionally-sculpted relief.

RAGE Thormbones is a low frequency duo comprised of Mattie Barbier and Weston Olencki. With mainly trombones, they produce sculpted masses of high-density sound, carving metallic resonance and subcutaneous tones to make rooms feel really heavy. They’ve presented work everywhere from Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Darmstadt Summer Courses, Borealis Festival, Donaueschinger Musiktage, ISSUE Project Room and more recently, as soloists with the Helsinki Philharmonic and SWR Symphonieorchester.

Past collaborators include Ellen Arkbro, Kevin Drumm, Sarah Davachi, Clara Iannotta, George Lewis, Scott Walker, & many more.

RIYL: Yoshi Wada, Toshiya Tsunoda, Nate Wooley, Catherine Christer Hennix, Ellen Fullman
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Recorded in Berlin, Germany (01, 03), Los Angeles, California (03), and Bergen, Norway (02). Track 03 uses layered material from Juz (A Yodel Cry) [1999/rev.2009] by Wolfgang von Schweinitz.

Audio finalized by Laminal Audio and produced by A. F. Jones.
Cover art from 'Traversing the Abyss' [2024] by Mareike Yin-Yee Lee.

Buoy

London-based concert series of experimental music since 2005

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