too funky for the academy. Bang on a Can's post-classical Brooklyn-based label is home to John Luther Adams, Julia Wolfe, Glenn Kotche, Ashley Bathgate, So Percussion, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Bonjour, Steve Reich & many more.
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coming soon:
[CA21152]: David Lang's anatomy theater (Oct 25)
[CA21149]: Meara O'Reilly's Hockets for Two Voices (digital Oct 25, vinyl Nov 15)

new releases in 2019:
[CA21150]: Michael Gordon - Acquanetta
[CA21148]: John Luther Adams – Become Desert
[CA21146]: Jeffrey Brooks – The Passion

Ruaidhri Mannion - Composer and Live Electronics
Corentin Chassard - Violoncello

Volatile string textures. This cello and laptop duo are the hunters and gatherers of new sounds in a violent aural killing field. 

Returning to the National Portrait Gallery on 30th of August 2013.

Partial Gathering have appeared at some of London’s most cutting edge and prestigious new music events. Making their debut performance at the National Portrait Gallery, the pair was then invited by the infamous Oubliette Art Collective to perform at their Home is where your art is exhibition in Mayfair. Not content to restrict their music to seated audiences, they took their new brand of contemporary classical electronica to club venues. Renowned cellist, Gabriella Swallow, selected the pair to perform at Strung Out in association with Music Orbit at The Vibe Bar and they were invited to play at Resonance FM’s Rockfort club night at Café Oto. Other previous shows include the Royal College of Music, The Forge and Gabriel Prokofiev’s Nonclassical Club, The Old Vic Tunnels, Whitechapel Gallery and the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Ireland.

Robert Ek has, as a clarinetist, specialised in contemporary music as a chamber musician and soloist. With great curiosity and dedication, he works together with composers to develop the repertoire for his instrument. He has recorded around 20 records and premiered a large number of works as soloist and chamber musician.

Since 2007 he is a member of the acclaimed ensemble Norrbotten NEO, the country's only ensemble with a national mission to work with contemporary music. Norrbotten NEO premieres a number of works by Swedish and international composers every year. In 2012, the ensemble received fst’s. interpretation award for their work with contemporary music.

Robert has performed and collaborated with musicians, composers and conductors from different parts of the world. He likes to work in the border country between arts and has worked closely not only with composers but also with writers, choreographers and filmmakers. Robert has toured Europe, North America, Asia and Australia and played at festivals such as Warsaw autumn, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, June in Buffalo, Faithful (Berlin), ISCM world music days in Stockholm and Tallinn, Musica Viva (Lisbon), Beijing Contemporary Music Festival.

In recent years, his work on developing the repertoire has focused on live electronics and developing the clarinet as an augmented instrument. Robert is also a PhD candidate at LTU since 2019. At the core of this doctoral project lies the iterative process where new electro-acoustic instrumental systems are designed and then used and tested in collaborative processes and in artistic practice. This oscillation is well described by Per Anders Nilsson (2011) as “design time” and “play time”. Where “design time deals with conception, representation, and articulation of ideas and knowledge outside time ... and play time deals with embodied knowledge, bodily activity, and interaction in real time” (Nilsson, 2011). Adding to this framework is the reflective process of observing and analysing how the systems behave and interact with the performer. Performing with these systems requires a close relationship and intimate understanding of the system and the relationship between body and technology. This embodied knowledge that artistic research strives for is a felt knowledge.

Gregor Riddell plays the cello and writes music. Original projects include BirdWorld, Tre Voci and KGB. Alongside Rob Lewis, he runs SVS presenting adventurous Nordic music. He lives in London and Oslo.

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“Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.” - Morton Feldman

"...when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge." - Jackson Pollock

"I never thought of music as a challenge - you always figure the audience is at least as smart as you are. You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful." - Lou Reed

"I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes." - Leonard Bernstein


Irish composer, performer, software developer and lecturer based in Liverpool. Work ranges from instrumental composition, to electroacoustic, to live electronics. 

This space is primarily for instrumental work. Electronic and experimental-pop works are available on bandcamp.

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