Alistair Zaldua
Composer, Improviser, Violinist, Conductor, Teacher
Alistair Zaldua is a composer of contemporary, experimental, and improvised music and has written work for chamber, orchestral, solo forces and live electronics. His work has received performances by: ensemble surplus, Ensemble Aventure, Ensemble Modern, and Ian Pace, Mark Knoop, Rei Nakamura, Adam Linson, and Lauren Redhead. Most recently, his work has focused on duet and solo improvisation. He currently performs work for organ and live electronics in duet with Lauren Redhead.While based in Manchester, Alistair is Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and lectures at Leeds Beckett University. Together with saxophonist, Mike Tyldesley, he helps organise the improvisation concert series The Noise Upstairs (Manchester), which takes place every 2nd Thursday of the month.Alistair has performed improvised music and projects with Alwynne Pritchard, David Birchall, Franziska Baumann, and Sam Bailey, Steve Noble, John Jasnoch, Maureen Wolloshin, Paul Cheneour, and James Coote, amongst many others.International and festival performances: Göteborg Art Sounds (2016), SuperNormal (2016), Alchemy Film and Moving Image (2015), Huddersfield Festival (2014), Sampler Series Barcelona (2014), Borealis (Bergen, Norway, 2014), Leeds New Music Festival (2013),REM (Bremen, 2011), UsineSonore (Malleray-Bevilard, Switzerland, 2012), Música Nova (Sao Paolo, 2006), Quantensprünge ZKM (Karlsruhe, 2007 & 2008), Electric Spring (Huddersfield), Ideas of Noise (Birmingham), nyMusikk Only Connect Festival in Stavanger, Norway (2019) and Tectonics Festival in Glasgow (2021).
Compositions
(Underlined titles/text link to recordings.)
Installation and concert piece for organ and live electronics (2024)
Durations: installation, 1 hour.
Concert piece, 7'.
Album of postcard pieces and other works for multiple violins (2020):
KanonE, Postcard 1, Postcard 2, Postcard 3, Postcard 4; sans soleil, Postcard 5, Postcard 7, There is an infinite number of versions of us
Laruelle's Film
Bass Clarinet, Contrabass, Piano, ca. 10', 2019
Speaker, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion, Piano, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Contrabass, ca. 11′, 2018
Sketch for Quartet
Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Violin, Cello, ca. 5′, 2018
interregnum
Percussion Sextett, ca. 30′, 2017
Commissioned by Conservatoire CRR Versailles – Ecole de Musique
Conductor: Pascal Pons
barrells
Contrabass Clarinet and Organ, ca. 7′, 2016
2 Pianos and 2 Percussion, ca. 15′, 2008/2009
Flute, Oboe, Piano, Percussion, Violin, ‘Cello, 7′ 30″, 2006
panning out
Tenor Sax, Accordion, ‘Cello, 17′, 2003
pelt
Tenor Sax, Accordion, ‘Cello, 17′, 2003
winds/drums*
Flute, Clarinet, Baritone Sax, Trumpet, 2 Trombones, 4 Percussion, 12′, 1996
SLIDE PROJECT
Sextet and Live Electronics:
Bb Clarinet, Trumpet in C, 2 Percussion, Violin, ‘Cello, 14′, 2007
four pieces for five players and live electronics
Flute, Clarinette in A, Trombone, Viola, Contrabass, 7′, 1997
Solo bass clarinet.
Written for Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, ca. 8-9′, 2013-2014
Solo organ.
Written for Lauren Redhead, 12’, 2010.
Extended version: 72′, 2011
sylph figures
Solo piano.
Written for Ian Pace, ca. 3′, 2017
Spagyria
Solo piano.
Written for Heloisa Amaral, ca. 18′Borealis Festival Commission, 2013-2014
chordwork
Solo piano.
Written for Noriko Kawai, ca. 2′, 2010
the quick of it
Solo viola, ca. 5′, 2018
Solo spoken voice.
Written for Lauren Redhead.
8'-9′, 2013
…rain of stars
Solo Organ, Live Electronics (4 loudspeakers).
Written for Lauren Redhead, 8′, 2014
Development Version 1
Development Version 2
Piano Solo and Live Electronics (4 Loudspeakers), ca. 12′, 2012
Piano Solo and Live Electronics (4 Loudspeakers), ca. 11′, 2010
in the dark
Contrabass and fixed media (4 Loudspeakers) & Video projection, ca. 13′, 2009
Commissioned by the Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway.
Installation for screen with back projection: 2 Projectors, Computer, 2 Loudspeakers
Runs on MaxMSP Jitter patch, open duration, 2013-20142 main versions: Installation and standalone film (see link above).
BlowUp
Installation version of work for solo organ, ca. 72′, 2011
Captain Swing
Narrator, Voices, Instruments, Percussion, Live Electronics, Conduction,ca. 30′, 2019
Graphic score for improvising orchestra and conduction, ca. 30′, 2018
Performances/Broadcasts
—2025—
July 28: Notes&Sounds, Sheffield
Improvisation Trio with John Jasnoch (guitar) and
Mick Beck (bassoon)
Venue: University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Broomhall,
Sheffield S3 7HG.
Doors: 8pm
August 10: Noise Upstairs, Manchester
Ensemble FishFossilFake:
Pete Furniss, bass clarinet
Amy Jolly, cello
Henry Mcpherson, keyboards/piano
Lauren Redhead, voice, electronics
Alistair Zaldua, acoustic violin, e-violin, electronics
Past Performances
May 69: Noise Upstairs, Manchester
Duet with David Birchall (e-guitar)
Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW (map)
Doors: 8.30pm
June 28: Curious Ear, Manchester
Curious Ear Improvisers Orchestra 2.0
St Margaret's Church, Whalley Range, Manchester, M16 8AE
Doors: 3pm
May 8: Noise Upstairs, Manchester
Duet with David Birchall (e-guitar)
Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW
Doors: 8.30pm
May 9: Ensemble FishFossilFake ManchesterFishFossilFake: (Redhead) ensemble
ochre, red: (Zaldua) e-viola and live electronics
On Being Watched: (Jolly/Sargen) cello and flute
ecollage3: (McPherson) ensemblePerformers:
Pete Furniss, bass clarinet, Amy Jolly, cello, Henry Mcpherson, keyboards/piano, Lauren Redhead, voice, electronics, Ellen Sargen, flutes, Alistair Zaldua, acoustic violin, e-violin, electronicsOld Levenshulme Library
448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW
6.30pm: doors open, 7pm: music.
April 7 – 20: Radiophrenia
24-hour Sound Art Festival Festival.
Broadcast collaborative piece by Lauren Redhead (spoken word), Alistair Zaldua (e-violin), Steve Altoft (trumpet), and Johannes Nied (contrabass) alias Flow Duo.
Saturday 19th April: 8am – 8.30am: The Sea Bass
March 30: Soundhunt, Cambridge
Duet with David Birchall (e-guitar)
Thrive Café, 5-7 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LD
Doors: 2pm. Soundhunt Facebook page
March 20: Church of Sound, Nottingham
Solo set
JT Soar, Aberdeen Street, Nottingham, NG3 1JB
Doors: 7.30pm. Church of Sound 2025 Programme
March 15: Ealing Extranormal
Duet with David Birchall (e-guitar)
Ealing Extranormal, OPEN Ealing Arts Centre, Unit 14 Dickens Yard, W5 2TD
Doors: 7.30pm.
February 24: Notes&Sounds, Sheffield
Duet with David Birchall (e-guitar)
University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7HG.
Doors: 8pm
February 8th: Dundee Listening Festival
Broadcast of December by Duo Zaldua Birchall. Recording of improvisation recorded in Salford, 11.12.2023.
Dundee Radio Club, Listening Festival 7th- 9th February, 2025
Date/Time: 2.08am, Saturday 8th February
January 27 – 31: Residency Experimental Studio (South-West Radio), Freiburg
I have been invited as artist in residency for the 2nd time to work on the electronic part for a cycle of pieces titled Redrick S for different instruments and live electronics at the Experimental Studio in Freiburg, Germany. During this week I will work intensively with the 38-tone trumpet played by Steve Altoft.
—2024—
November 14: Ensemble 50:50, The Noise Upstairs
I will play as part of the Ensemble 50:50 sextet, led by Phil Morton at The Noise Upstairs.
Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW (map)
Doors open: 8.30pm
November 25: Notes&Sounds, Sheffield
Performance in trio with John Jasnoch (guitars) and Adam Woolf (clarinet), featured soloist: Olie Brice.
University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7HG.
Doors open: 8pm
October 10: The Noise Upstairs, Manchester
words and music
Lauren Redhead (spoken word, electronics), Amy Jolly (cello), Alistair Zaldua (e-violin).
Improvised interpretations to Lauren’s experimental texts at The Noise Upstairs.
Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW
Doors open: 8.00pm
September 7: ‘The Pipe Organ as a Site for Musical and Technological Innovation‘, City Uni, London
Duo Redhead Zaldua perform work for organ and electronics by:
Michael Bonaventure Celestial Objects II,
Sophie Stone postcard sized pieces,
Huw Morgan the kestrel stands haloed before the sun,
Lauren Redhead curse tablets,
Mike Vaughan clints and grikes,
Alistair Zaldua Redrick S
St. John the Evangelist, Duncan Terrace, Islington, 5.30pm
August 19 – 23: Residency Experimental Studio (South-West Radio), Freiburg
I have been invited as artist in residency for the 2nd time to work on the electronic part for a cycle of pieces titled Redrick S for different instruments and live electronics at the Experimental Studio in Freiburg, Germany. During this week I will work intensively with Flügelhorn and microtonal trumpet specialist Steve Altoft.
July 30: The Noise Upstairs, Todmorden
Duet with James Coote (drums).
The Golden Lion, Fielden Square, Todmorden, OL14 6LZ
Doors: 8.30pm
June 1: Redrick S, album release
Release of Redrick S, three versions:
2 installation versions and 1 concert version.
Recording: San Servolo, Venice.
Lauren Redhead: organ, Alistair Zaldua: live electronics.
May 28: NoiseFloor, ESML, Lisbon
Performance of what are notes anyway?
Collaborative audio-visual composition:
Jenn Kirby, Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua NoiseFloor Annual Conference.
Conference timetable (pdf).
Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML), 6pm
March 18: Curious Ear, Manchester
Duet with David Birchall (e-guitar).
Peer Hat, 14-16 Faraday Street, Manchester
Doors: 7.30pm, 8pm start
March 14: Noise Upstairs, Manchester
Duet with James Coote (drums).
Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW
February 29: DLF: 54 stops by Annette Schmucki
Broadcast of 54 stops, grésillement, alphabet des rauschens by Annette Schmucki, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, (Berlin):
Alphabet des Rauschens
Lauren Redhead: organ, Alistair Zaldua: live electronics.
Recording: Chiesa di San Servolo, Venice, 25.10.2023
January 29: Notes&Sounds
Duet with James Coote (drums).
University Arms, 197 Brook Hill, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7HG
Doors open: 8pm
—2024—
December 1: CURSES AND SPIRITS
Duo Gallio Zaldua, released by scatterArchive
Christoph Gallio, saxophones and Alistair Zaldua, e-violin.
Improvisations and compositions: Christoph Gallio, Lauren Redhead, Alistair Zaldua. Digital release; scatterArchive (Glasgow).
26th November: Mopomoso
Trio CZW
Paul Cheneour (flutes), Maureen Wolloshin (oboe), Alistair Zaldua (e-violin)
Vortex Jazz Club
November, 11: Saint Stephens, Bristol
Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua Duo:
organ and live electronics, with Huw Morgan and Michael Bonaventure, Automatronic.
Performances of:
Mike Vaughan: clints and grykes
Alistair Zaldua: Redrick S
Music by Michael Bonaventure, Jono Cole, Chris Fox, Huw Morgan, and Lauren Redhead.
6.00pm, Saint Stephens Church, Bristol
November 1st: Plastic Language [something’s happening]
Broadcast of AprilAprilApril by Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua.
Recording: Experimental Studio, SWR, Freiburg, in April, 2023.
1am – 2am
October 31st: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Research Lecture on recent work for composition class and research students.
October 21 – 28: Duo Redhead Zaldua: Residency San Servolo, Festival Registri, Venice
Concert and installation performances.
Work by: Annette Schmucki, Sophie Stone, Lauren Redhead, Michael Vaughan, Alistair Zaldua: for organ and live electronics.
Tuesday Oct. 24 Installation
Sophie Stone, Postcard Sized Pieces
Alistair Zaldua, Redrick S (World Premiere of installation version)
Wednesday Oct. 25 Installation
Annette Schmucki, 54 stops (2 hour version)
Friday Oct. 27 Concert, Festival Registri
Michael Vaughan, clints and grykes
Michael Bonaventure, Celestial Objects II
Sophie Stone, Syntheses
Lauren Redhead, curse tablets
Huw Morgan, the kestrel stands haloed before the sun
Alistair Zaldua, Redrick S
Annette Schmucki, 54 stops
Fondazione San Servolo, Isola di San Servolo, 30133 Venezia VE, Italy (links to map)
October 16: Curious Ear
Duet with James Coote (drums).
Peer Hat, 14-16 Faraday Street, Manchester
8pm start
September 14: Noise Upstairs, Manchester
Trio: James Coote (drum kit) and Andrew Rothwell (percussion).
Recording, Lilac Room Studio, Manchester (6.06.2023).
Fuel Cafe, 448 Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 3BW
August 21 – September 3: Radiophrenia
24-hour Sound Art Festival Festival.
Broadcast of four collaborative pieces by Lauren Redhead (spoken word, synthesiser), Maurice Oeser (live electronics), Alistair Zaldua (e-violin).
August 25th: Shorts 19, 1pm – 2pm; by increments
August 27th: Shorts 35, 10pm – 11pm; April April April
August 29th: Shorts 9, 8am – 9am; dreisam
September 1st: Shorts 26, 1pm – 2pm; experimentalstudio
July 11th: Unsupervised #3
Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester, 10.30 – 5pm
Performance of Ochre, Red for e-violin, live electronics.
The Machine Learning for Music Working Group
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Bridgeford Street, Manchester, M13 9PL.
May 11: Noise Floor Conference
University of Staffordshire
Performance of Ochre, Red, e-violin, live electronics, and voice. Performers: Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua.
Conference schedule
April 17 – 21: Residency Experimental Studio
South-West Radio, Freiburg
April 16th: Hospital Kirche
Duo Redhead/Zaldua with Composers Slide Quartet:
An Berblingers Prothese, by Alan Hilario,
Second performance of work for work for organ, e-violin, live electronics, trombone quartet, and percussion.
Hospital Kirche, Stuttgart
April 15th: Münster, Ulm, 7pm
Duo Redhead/Zaldua with Composers Slide Quartet:
An Berblingers Prothese (World Premiere)
New work by Alan Hilario, work for organ, e-violin, live electronics, trombone quartet, and percussion.
Ulm Münster
30th March: Free Range, Canterbury, 7.30pm
Alwynne Pritchard and Alistair Zaldua. Info page here. Performance includes work by Lauren Redhead, Alwynne Pritchard and Alistair Zaldua.
Fruitworks Coffee Shop, 1-2 Jewry Lane, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2NP
28th March: Deptford Town Hall, Goldsmiths, 6pm
Alwynne Pritchard and Alistair Zaldua, Rush-Hour Concert: 6pm. Work by Alwynne Pritchard, Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua.
New Cross Rd, London SE14 6NW
26th March: Mopomoso, Vortex Jazz Club
Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua. Works by Huw Morgan, Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua.
Doors open: 2pm
Gillett Square, London N16 8AZ
Comments from audience member, Tim Banks
25th March: Access Space Sheffield
Lauren Redhead (electric organ, live electronics) and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin).
Work by Huw Morgan, Lauren Redhead, Sophie Stone, and Alistair Zaldua.
Doors open 7.00pm
Event Central, 26 Fargate, Sheffield City Centre, S1 2HE
31st January: Hypotesis: Andrew Zhou and Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, Studio Boerne, Berlin, 7.30pm
Performance of Something is Other Than It Is, solo bass clarinet.
Performers: Andrew Zhou: piano
Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson: clarinets
Alessandro Massobrio: electronics
Studio Boerne 45, Börnestraße 43, 13086 Berlin
—2022—
December 10th, St Swithun’s Church, Worcester: Automatronic
Performances by Huw Morgan and Michael Bonaventure, Lauren Redhead (organ) and Alistair Zaldua (live electronics).
Programme:
Map Fred Wallberg (organ solo)
Zombie Ant Huw Morgan and Michael Bonaventure
1.50am Dreaming Lin Yang
Curse Tablets Lauren Redhead
November 9th, Zürich: Musikpodium Der Stadt Zürich
Duo Redhead/Zaldua: Premier of 2-hour version of Annette Schmucki‘s 54 stops for organ and live electronics.
5pm – 7pm; City Kirche St Jakob, Stauffacherstrasse 34, 8004 Zürich
Blog post on our collaborative work with Annette Schmucki
November 2nd, Online: NowNet Arts Conference 2022
Improvisation: Performance of 35′ version of Fred Rzewski’s Second Structure (1972) for solo or ensemble ad lib. pdf of score for open ensemble with Orpheus Institute (led by Juan Parra and Jonathan Impett).
NowNet Arts Conference, Stonybrook University, New York
1pm (Eastern Daylight Time Zone); UK: 6pm
16th October: Low Frequency Trio (LF3), Mexico City, 6pm
Performance of Laruelle’s Film
Foro International de Música Nueva, Sala Manuel M. Ponce, Pallacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico. 6pm
Low Frequency Trio: Antonio Rosales: bass clarinet, Juan José García: contrabass, José Luis Hurtado: piano
Blog post on Laruelle’s Film and LF3
13th October: Access Space Sheffield, 8pm
Solo performance: e-violin and live electronics. Concert details.
Work by Alistair Zaldua and Lauren Redhead.
Doors open 7.30pm
Event Central, 26 Fargate, S1 2HE
July 4th: Swiss Percussion Days
4pm Lecture on interregnum by Alistair Zaldua
8pm Performance of interregnum for percussion sextet
Conducter: Pascal Pons
Performers: Percussion class of Pascal Pons, HSLU Lucerne
Hochschule für Musik, Klassik, Musik-Akademie Basel, Leonhardsstrasse 6, 4051 Basel
July, 5th: Music and/as Process, Deutschlandradio Kultur, 00.05
Broadcast of portrait program on the Royal Musical Association Study Group, Music and/as Process (website), by Carolin Naujocks
July 9th: Hundred Years Gallery, 19.30
Performance of free improvised music with Franziska Baumann (voice and electronics) and Steve Noble (percussion). Further info.
Hundred Years Gallery , 13 Pearson St. London E2 8JD
June 26th: Backbox Kosmos, Luzern Hochschule für Musik (HSLUM), 11.00
Performance of interregnum for percussion sextet
Conducter: Pascal Pons
Performers: Percussion class of Pascal Pons
Further Info
Hochschule Luzern – Musik, Arsenalstrasse 28a, Blackbox Kosmos6010 Luzern-Kriens
June 18th: Landis & Gyr Studios, Whitechapel, 19.30
Performance of free improvised music with Franziska Baumann (voice and electronics) and Steve Noble (percussion)
Concert Information: Facebook Event page
5 Smithy Street, Stepney Gardens, Whitechapel, London, E1 3BW
June 6th – 12th: Residency at Neither/Nor, Ytra Arna, Bergen, Norway
Neither/Nor Alistair Zaldua portrait page.
Blog post on Neither/Nor Residency.
June 8th: House Concert at Neither/Nor
Invited audience.
June 11th: nyMusikk Krapyl: Biblioteksmusikken, 12.00
Performance at nyMusikk Krapyl: Biblioteksmusikken Concert Series: solo e-violin and fixed media, Bergen Library. Facebook page for info.
May 12th: NoiseFloor 2022, Staffordshire University
Duet with Lauren Redhead (spoken word and text composition, with e-violin improvisation and live electronics). Programme.
Performance Lecture: Performing Creative Textual Practices as Critical Re-writings.
Cadman Studios, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2DE
March 31st: Free Range Spring Season Opening Concert, 19.30
Opening free improvisation duet with Sam Bailey (violin and piano) in support of Zubin Kanga’s Hidden Vortices set.
The Old Synagogue, 33-34 King St, Canterbury CT1 2AJ
Publicity post by Free Range
March 5th: CoMa Manchester All-comers Workshop
3pm – 5pm: workshop of graphic score propaganda
St Margaret’s Church, Rufford Road, Whalley Range, M16 8AE
February 15th: Radiophrenia
8am – 9am. Broadcast of Machines by Lauren Redhead (spoken word and text composition) and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin improvisation), Link to Schedule.
February 14th: Radioprenia
8am – 9am. Broadcast of Feminist Pirate Broadcast by Lauren Redhead (spoken word and text composition) and Alistair Zaldua (e-violin improvisation), Link to the Schedule.
—2021—
December 09: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Berlin
Duo Redhead/Zaldua: Unmeasured Preludes
Broadcast of Unmeasured Preludes for organ and live electronics by Jesse Ronneau, Huw Morgan, Lauren Redhead, Alistair Zaldua, Luis Henriqué Yudo, Maureen Wolloshin
November 07 – 13: Duo Redhead Zaldua, Concerts in Berlin
Duo Redhead/Zaldua: Organ and live electronics
Performances of music by: Irene Galindo-Quero, Uday Krishnakumar, Fred Wallberg, Lin Yang, Lauren Redhead, Luc Döbereiner, Lula Romero. Further Details.
November 8th (Monday), 19.00: Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche
November 10th (Wednesday), 19.30: Pfarrkirche, Weißensee
November 11th (Thursday), 20.00: Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Schöneberg
November 13th (Saturday), 19.30: Alte Pfarrkirche, Pankow
November 14th (Sunday), 18.00: Tabor Kirche, Kreuzberg
October 07: Free Range, Canterbury
Trio CZW: Paul Cheneour (flutes), Maureen Wolloshin (oboe), Alistair Zaldua (e-violin) // Free improvisation
Venue: Fruitworks Coffee Shop
October 7: Trio CZW Album Launch: Where The Wind Takes Us
Published by Pan y Rosas Discos, Album of free improvised and composed music by Paul Cheneour, Maureen Wolloshin, and Alistair Zaldua
Album available: here.
September 15: Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Newcastle
Premiere performance of string trio fragments (2021); Trio Northumbria
Newcastle University
Blog post
May: Festival Tectonics, BBC Glasgow
Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua Duo: Organ and live electronics
Performances of Giant Silver by Michael Bonaventure (UK), Fault by Huw Morgan (UK), Phosphorescent, by Lauren Redhead (UK), and …rain of stars by Alistair Zaldua
BBC Concert Recording (available until Tuesday June 8th)
Blogpost on this concert
—2020—
Tuesday December, 15th (0:05 CEST): Deutschland Kultur
Notation for Improvisation. Broadcast of radio feature focussing on the interaction between notation and improvisation. Includes interviews and work by Floris Schuiling, Sarah Brand, Moss Freed and the Union Division, and the Instant Composer’s Pool.
Related blog post by Lauren Redhead on the IMR Notation for Improvisers 1-day conference (London, 9th February, 2019)
News
This website is still being developed; I have copy/pasted previous blog-posts from my previous website below.
Release of album with Lauren Redhead: feminist broadcasts.
Curses and Spirits, release of album by Duo Gallio Zaldua, by scatterArchive
Trio CZW Performance at The Vortex +album release on Pan y Rosas Discos
Residency at San Servolo, Venice
Neither/Nor Residency: June 6th – 12th
Tectonics Glasgow 2021: Duo Redhead Zaldua
Release of Lauren Redhead’s the octopus digital opera
image invisible EP released on Bandcamp
Jefferson Park EXP Broadcast with whereness quartet
Broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur of Program: Notation and Improvisation
Contemporary Music Review: Translation of Cornelius Schwehr + Interview with Annette Schmucki
remote music online album released on bandcamp!
Whereness Quartet CD Release: 8th October, 2020
viviEntes Ciclo Compilation Album Launch: Lamenzamiento de Cartografiá
Kanon_E postcard for experimental pianist Simone Keller and Zeiss E-Box
Annette Schmucki: 54 stops for organ and live electronics
Tectonics/Glasgow performance with Lauren, Postponed until May, 2021
Arts Council Emergency Covid Fund Award
Laruelle’s Film for Low Frequency Trio
counterparts for Oboe and Violin
Sound and Music Covid-19 Composer Award
Postcard Ahab for Alwynne Pritchard
CD release of manifesto performed by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Free Range Orchestra at Margate Now Festival, perform at the Turner Contemporary Gallery
Video Report on our collaboration with composer/performer: Nina Whiteman
Publication in New Sound: International Journal of Music
Broadcast of our performance of Nemos Orgel, by Mesias Maiguashca on NRK radio
BBC Radio broadcast of our performance of Nemos Orgel by Mesias Maiguashca
News, January, 2019: Premiere of Captain Swing at Winter Sound Festival