Very nice piece, Patrick! And the instrument sounds cool.

Great idea, realization and performance, Bravo! 👏 And all the best for this new year!

Antanáklasi I [2019] | pour flûte et électronique

a fragrant breeze
is blowing from China 
over these seven strings

naviarhaiku341: a fragrant breeze

This is a composition based on the letters of the names of my children. I rendered a distinctive sample to each letter and composed a piece of music from these samples. They are mainly field recordings, but there are some synth parts too. I dedicate this piece to my children.

More on this 454th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Lsoo Vneg (The Assignment: The Assignment: Encode the name of someone you love into a piece of music), at:

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Pangaea Ultima (2020)

Music, instruments, recording, mixing, and album cover - Dmitri Koteshov
Field recordings: jittels, agim.

September 29, 2020.

Pangaea Ultima

My cat and I hunt at night

RADIANT

Konpeki 紺碧

In September 2018, I was approached by cellist Alfian Emir Adytia to compose a new solo piece that would be performed as part of his final Masters recital in June 2019.  

After some initial discussions and workshops with Alfian, I learnt that his Masters research was exploring ways to implement techniques of traditional keroncong cello music into his western cello practice. Traditionally, the former instrument is played pizzicato and serves as part of the rhythm section in Keroncong music. I soon became fascinated with the idea of writing a piece that did the reverse - by using a western bow with the cello and recontextualising it as a solo instrument. 

Between December 2018 and June 2019, Alfian and I worked closely together to develop a new solo study piece for the instrument that explored the use and the sound of the bow on the keroncong cello, utilising various bowing and timbral techniques. 

‘Three Mostly Bowed Strings’ was first performed as part of the Composition Graduation Festival on the 3rd of June 2019 in the Korzo Theater in The Hague, and then subsequently on the 5th of June in the Kees van Baarenzaal at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, as part of Alfian’s final Masters recital.

Three Mostly Bowed Strings (2019)

Claudio Ferrari: electronic devices - percussions - swivel chair - plastic bag - vocal intrusions.
Alessandro Bona: flute - bamboo flutes (G; B) - electronic devices - synthesizers - percussions - ethnic whistle - bottle - bunch of keys.

Redevelopment

Lost and found master from 2007, a live in the studio improvisation performed by
Nico Arnicho (URU), Percussion
Bobby Rangell (USA), Flute
Pajaro Canzani (URU),  Acoustic guitar
Daniel Diaz (ARG), Fretless bass and electric piano

remixed and edited for the first time now late 2020 , for this haiku:

"Deep in the water,
softly moving his fins,
a carp, dreaming"

haiku by Morikawa Kyoroku
picture by Linus Nylund

@naviar-records

Deep In The Water (naviarhaiku364)

I came up with the following words that all correspond to sample names of the tidalcycles livecoding environment:

speechless koy 
-  outdoor battles 
circus house 
-  mouth hmm 
incoming alphabet 
- yeah xmas claus 

The tidalcycles source code used to record the piece is available here: 
https://github.com/tgoerke/tidal/blob/master/naviarhaiku364.tidal

This is inspired by the naviarhaiku364 :

Deep in the water,
softly moving his fins,
a carp, dreaming

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 30th December 2020

haiku by Morikawa Kyoroku http://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2018/11/carpe-diems-leafless-tree-3-morikawa.html

picture by Linus Nylund https://unsplash.com/@doto

Koi In The Bath Tub (naviarhaiku364)

flehen

Träl

Patrick Ellis (b. 1994, UK) is a composer, performer and curator based in London. His music has been described as being "focused, intense and unrelenting" (Gaudeamus Jury, 2024), with much of his work utilising limited musical materials, small developments and juxtapositions.

He has worked with many acclaimed ensembles including Terra Invisus (UK), Ensemble Klang (NL), collective lovemusic (FR), XTRO Percussion (NL), the Residentie Orkest (NL), Kluster 5 (NL), Orkest de Ereprijs (NL), The Tantrum Saxophone Quartet (NL), The Spaceship Ensemble (NL), Kirkos (IE) and 315 Ensemble (US/UK), and has collaborated with soloists such as Kathryn Williams (flute), Huw Morgan (organ), Alfian Emir Adytia (cello), Dauphine Van der Velphen (saxophone), Chris Cresswell (electric guitar) and Carson Cooman (organ).

Upcoming projects include a new multimedia work exploring burnout within the classical music industry for the ensemble Standard Issue, a new piece for electric guitar and fixed media for Chris Cresswell, as well as a long-form collaboration with the French-Canadian cellists Laurence Gaudreau and Audréanne Filion.

Patrick's music has been presented at numerous festivals and concert series across the European, North American, Asia and Australasia, including, Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Festival Dag in de Branding (NL), November Music (NL), Rainy Days Festival (LU), Mittelfest and Mittelyoung Festival (IT), De Link Tilburg (NL), Lilium SoundArt (IT), Sundays at The Hugh Lane Gallery (IE), AżTak Festival (PL), New Music Now NL's Dag van de Componist (NL), Click Fest (US), Sounding Here (NL), Kirkos Ensemble's Biosphere Festival (IE), Union Musicale (IT), Mainly Slow Organ Music (UK), Kammer Klang (UK), the Frequency Series Chicago (US), Ideas of Noise Festival (UK) and the Harmos Plural Festival (PT).

In 2024, Patrick was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award and in 2022, he was the Artist in Residence for the AMPA Fontys/De Link Residency programme in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He has also been a part of the Psappha Composing For Piano Scheme in 2019-20, the 25th Edition of Orkest de Erepijs’ Young Composers Meeting and Kathryn Williams' innovative Coming Up for Air Project.

His music has been broadcast on Dutch radio stations, including NPO Radio 4, NPO Klassiek, Concertzender,and Stranded FM, as well as on the US station WCNY, and has been featured on releases from Birmingham Record Company and Huddersfield Contemporary Records.

Patrick is also the artistic director of Open Union, an electric guitar and modular synth duo with composer-performer colleague Peter Bell. Described by the treasured composer Howard Skempton as being 'sometimes subtle and unstable; sometimes rich and dense', the duo aims to build up strong collaborative relationships to create new works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi, Paolo Griffin and Seán Clancy. The duo have performed across the UK at events such as SAOM, Ealing Extranormal, AMOK, Don't Mind Control, Birmingham Modular Organisation and CODA Festival. In 2025, they co-hosted a portrait concert with saxophonist David Zucchi featuring music by Paolo Griffin at the Hundred Years Gallery; earlier in the year, they supported Passepartout Duo at Centrala Space, Birmingham as part of their UK Tour, and in 2023, undertook a mini tour of The Netherlands as part of the Sounding Here concert series, where they performed at Splendor in Amsterdam and Batavierhuis in Rotterdam.

Alongside composing and performing, Patrick works as the creative director of PRXLUDES, an online contemporary music magazine, platform, and resource dedicated to the promotion of the work of emerging and early-career composers. Together, with the artistic director Zygmund de Somogyi and a team of contributors, they have written about over 125 composers, ensembles and music organisations from the UK and abroad. In 2025, they began hosting events, presenting Alex Groves' DANCE SUITE (performed by Zubin Kanga) as part of PRS Foundation New Music Biennial 2025. Recently, PRXLUDES have been awarded a multi-year partnership with The Hinrichsen Foundation in order to help platform emerging and early-career composers through a series of concerts, conversations, and commissions throughout the UK from 2025 to 2028.

He holds a Masters degree in composition from the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (Royal Conservatoire of The Hague) and a Bachelor's degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His principal tutors have included Martijn Padding, Guus Janssen, Andrew Hamilton, Seán Clancy, Ed Bennett, Howard Skempton and Michael Wolters.

Three Mostly Bowed Strings (2019)

Patrick Ellis

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