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Genres: We’re Going to Need a Bigger Box

05/06/2017 Peter Elliott

Searching for antidotes to the Genre-Box-Pox (read more)

CAN: Unreleased Material. The Can Project: Barbican and Glastonbury Sets

05/04/2017 Trebuchet Magazine

New releases, biography readings and gigs by the Can Project usher in a spring/summer of CAN related events (read more)

Outside of the music, it’s a little quiet…. Dead Light (Interview)

15/11/2016 Sean Keenan

Dead Light, makers of 2016’s intricate electro/ambient/classical apogee, discuss their debut album. (read more)

Who’s Afraid of Tonality? (Max Richter, Sleep @ Barbican)

01/06/2016 Alexei Monroe

As much gig as concert, The Barbican turns to Max Richter for crowd-pulling contemporary performance. Review (read more)

Cleaning ladies also experience the sublime (Aine O’Dwyer)

16/06/2015 Sean Keenan

Where Scarlatti or Bach strove to elevate the consciousness with uplifting symmetrical counterpoint, O’Dwyer reaches into a slightly different church music tradition (read more)

Integration and interrelation between the orchestral and the electronic [Michael Price]

12/03/2015 Sean Keenan

As an exercise in demonstrating the possibilities of digital/orchestral enmeshment, Entanglement is at the top table. (read more)

Our ‘songlines’ are contained in our technology, we are technological beings [Cristian Vogel]

15/02/2015 Alexei Monroe

ith releases spanning two decades, Cristian Vogel is widely recognised as one of the more thoughtful and inventive producers of his time. In the 1990s he produced extremely innovative techno and electronic music released on (read more)

Max Richter : Royal Albert Hall [Live]

27/10/2014 Kailas

The final word is this was a truly historic evening for music, and Vivaldi’s reputation to wow audiences shines undimmed. (read more)

Midsummer Music Festival 2014

04/06/2014 Trebuchet Magazine

Midsummer Music Festival gathers some of the world’s finest classical musicians into an intimate and charming performance space. (read more)

Max Richter – Memoryhouse revisited

28/11/2013 Trebuchet Magazine

Vinyl release of Max Richter’s memoryhouse and a rare Barbican performance on Jan 24 of this masterwork. (read more)

I have not gone out of my way to mythologise myself, but… [Michael Finnissy]

03/02/2013 Trebuchet Magazine

ince the late 60’s Michael Finnissy has been composing classical work that challenges, shakes and agitates the listener from complacency. The scope of his work is remarkable in its rejection of laissez faire assumptions (read more)

Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden

19/01/2012 Kailas

The fine folded pressures of the lidless eye. Renowned through his collaborations with John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Trey Spruance, Eyvind Kang has become the go-to violin guy for a certain strain of the American (read more)