a world of music and non-music
sometimes dj as Lycra

1/6 of Förgätmigrejv, Stockholm based dj collective & rave community

architect of sound.

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Photo: Birgit Püve / Arvo Pärt Centre

E-mail: mkrawczykcomposer [at] hotmail [dot] com

https://hpmcgowan.wordpress.com/

H. P. McGowan is an award-winning composer and interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His music has been described by colleagues as ‘contemplative’, ‘expressive’, and ‘imaginative’, often bringing attention to sparseness, fragility, and environment. His concert music has been influenced by the aesthetics of the Wandelweiser Collective, the Cagean tradition, and the Canadian artist Jack Chambers.  His most recent music and research-creation projects involve just intonation, indeterminacy, and using methods of composing borrowed from early music.

H. P. earned a Master of Music in Composition degree from the University of Ottawa in 2021, during which time his research and creative activities were funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

H. P. co-founded Ensemble Allure, an interprovincial new music ensemble with chapters in Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, and Toronto (ensembleallure.com).  He serves as a board member at Ottawa New Music Creators (onmc.info).

In addition to his activities as a concert music composer, H. P. has operated a successful music composition and sound design service for linear visual media under his legal name (www.haydenmcgowancomposer.com).

Swedish composer of contemporary classical music. 

www.williamsundman.se

Scores and parts can be purchased from Svensk Musik:
https://www.svenskmusik.org/sv

I'm an Irish composer, sound engineer/programmer and improviser with a research interest in the philosophy of sound, music and aesthetics. 
If you want to collaborate or chat, send me a message here or via email.
Please see my links for more information.
Thanks for visiting, 
Ben

Gonçalo Rodrigues began his studies in composition at the School of Arts, University of Évora, and after completing his degree he entered his master's degree in composition at Musikhögskolan i Malmö in Sweden. He completed his master's degree in June 2023 and is currently enrolled in a second master's degree. His studies in Portugal with Christopher Bochmann and Hugo Ribeiro notably influenced his musical style, more specifically his serialist techniques. However, his more recent studies with Bent Sørensen and Staffan Storm have revealed in his music a more authentic personality and form as well as a passion for dense and suffocating textures with melancholic melodies.
His portfolio mainly includes solo pieces and chamber music. However, he has ventured more into the orchestral world with pieces such as Butterflies, and Le fardeau de Fernando. In 2021 he was awarded a prize in the Folefest composition competition for accordion and ensemble.
His musical narrative has been changing considerably and can now be characterized as a serialist approach with a persistence of organic textures and severe contrasts. His pieces manage to achieve an almost wandering state but awake to the world like a perspective from a dream, a dream that takes the audience on a literary journey. Feelings of nostalgia and melancholy are dispersed throughout his music in a continuity disturbed by moments of deep ecstasy and exaltation.
It is also essential to mention the evident presence of microtonality and polyrhythms, the influence that these characteristics bring is undeniable thus, creating a translucent tonality in a certain way ghostly and intoxicating. The rhythmic sensation is primary during the narrative, hence preferring to sometimes opt for sections without a beat, therefore deviating from the rule and freeing the concrete sensations of the music from its usual compositional norm.

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