Premières, Pizza Hut and Particular Punctuation
byIn his early years as artistic director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Graham McKenzie introduced a festival slogan: ‘Music Lives in Everything’. It…
In his early years as artistic director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Graham McKenzie introduced a festival slogan: ‘Music Lives in Everything’. It…
In August 2017 we provided all of our supporters with a progress report on Sounds Like Now. Whilst encouraged by the evident interest from…
Composer James Weeks comments that ‘I don’t want to write what I already know … It’s a question of unlearning, of being ready always…
The space Where are you? A lot of the time, I’m in the car. Radio listening is very important to me. This morning I…
As the KLF, one of the most influential and enigmatic pop acts of the 1990s, announce their return to the public eye after a…
At a certain point, over the last year or so, I started to think that the contemporary classical music scene in London was experiencing…
Bill Drummond paints this slogan in big bold capitals on walls all around the world, preferably underneath bridges: ‘IMAGINE WAKING TOMORROW AND ALL MUSIC…
The New Music Biennial festival, funded by the PRS for Music Foundation, claims to push ‘the boundaries of new music’. It provides an opportunity…
The space Where are you? I do most of my listening at home in my living room, lounging on my sofa, feet up –…
Gilda Williams, in her succinctly brilliant guidebook How to Write About Contemporary Art, offers three questions that every piece of art writing should attempt…