Waste Paper Opera live performance of music from Dead Cat Bounce. 

Thanks to Resonance Extra, Milo Thesiger-Meacham and Travis Yu

Music written by James Oldham (with quotes from Niccolo Jommelli)
Text by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Klara Kofen

violin - Chihiro Ono 
drums - Cameron Graham 
guitar/piano/band leader - James Oldham 

banker/reader - Klara Kofen
banker/Namazu - Gary Zhexi Zhang 

Jeremiah - Suzie Purkis 
Real Estate Agent of Miami - Themba Mvula 

chorus - Jacob Bolton, Keir Cooper, Gabriella Demczuk, Klara Kofen, Livvy Lynch, Themba Mvula, James Oldham, Suzie Purkis, Gary Zhexi Zhang

Waste Paper Opera - Live From 82 - 29.1.23 [Resonance Extra]

The Galliarde To The Firste Pavain (2013)

Love Me Tender

Howard Skempton in conversation with Sara Mohr-Pietsch for BBC Radio 3's Composers' Rooms. Hear the full interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0282rq3

Howard Skempton

Behave like a Turtle

Broken Superficiality (2024) for Ensemble and Fixed Media

Taking influence/inspiration from the 50-year continuation and negative effects of Neo-Liberalism that was first trialled in Chile in 1973, and then widely adopted by the UK and US under Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan (and the subsequent leaders), with a lot of other countries following suit. Moving increasingly towards a privatised, individualistic, and ultra-consumerist world with a lack of state-funded/public protected services/amenities, I find that gradually as a society we are losing ourselves, becoming broken and detached from community and instead are pursuing more superficial endeavours and objectives. Taking this into account, I have opted to use effects and timbres that were widely used in the 1970s and 80s as the core of the piece, pairing it with live instruments that sound ‘glitzy’ and techniques to that deviate/distort the instruments' pitch and timbre.

Performed by Ensemble Klang 
Performed at Cloud 9 in Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht as part of Gaudeamus Festival 2024
Recorded by Gaudeamus Festival
Mixed by Peter Bell

Image - 'Metropolis' by George Grosz (1917)


Broken Superficiality (2024)

Universally Unfamiliar World

Duet for loudspeaker in tower and amplified church organ. The Duration was 3 x  30 minutes. Written for and performed at Castello Di Piticchio, Italy as part of Ar[t]cevia festival 2015. 

Folk Songs I -  Castello Di Piticchio (excerpt)

Conducted by Mark Knoop.
Performed by Plus Minus Ensemble.

Verdi ripped of Fauré! Proof below!

http://freetexthost.com/bqpx2xv02f



The Missing 'Dies Irae' from Fauré's Requiem (arr. Cameron Dodds) (2016)

In Tandem (Howard Skempton)

Was written for Orkest De Ereprijs, performed at Young Composers Meeting 2019 in Apeldoorn. 


This piece is a tribute to the late great Mark E Smith and 'Nettlebast' is a reference to 'Bombast' by The Fall.

Performed by Orkest De Ereprijs, Francisca Branco, Ana Maria Lopes, Carolina Luís, Georgi Ognjanov Sztojanov & Einar Þór Guðmundsson,

Conducted by Rob Vermeulen

Nettlebast

'Endlessly sublime & tender' Max Reinhardt BBC 3 Late Junction 

I am a Composer/Performer from Nottingham, UK. 


My email is: Robn6500@gmail.com

Nettlebast

Robert Nettleship

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