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New interview with Nick Blackburn about Music, Text and Violence

Posted on February 10, 2012 by phil| Leave a comment

I met Theatre Director Nick Blackburn over a coffee in a very cute little knitting shop / café in Nantwich on Christmas Eve.  We had long conversations about music, text, violence and theatre, and he filmed a little bit of the conversation, a bit of which is shown here.

This video seems quite relevant to most of my projects this year, as so many of them are connected with violence:

 

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Selected for Blue Touch Paper with poet Steven Fowler

Posted on January 10, 2012 by phil| Leave a comment

I’m delighted to have been selected with poet Steven J Fowler for the London Sinfonietta’s new Blue Touch Paper scheme.

We were selected in October for our project that is an immersive, 45-minute-long  semi-staged piece for ensemble, electronics and vocalists, about Boxing.  Steve is a really wonderful, critically-acclaimed and very prolific young British poet who also used to be a professional boxer.   Steve’s work has so much in common with my own, with its predilection for violence, and its clear, no-nonsense communication with the reader/listener.  We’re hoping to bring all these qualities into our work, and we’re both really excited about producing something that is really fresh, adrenalin-fuelled and original.

The Sinfonietta are backing the project with lots of resources, advice and support, under their Blue Touch Paper scheme for emerging composers and collaborators.  We’re currently working on the project, having lots of workshop sessions with Sinfonietta players, poets, other composers and vocalists/performers.

We will preview 20 minutes of our project in May 2012 with the London Sinfonietta, and we are also on the look out for production partners who may be interested in taking the complete project, once finished.    Watch this space!

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Blue Touch Paper with London Sinfonietta

Posted on June 30, 2011 by phil| Leave a comment

I’m delighted: I’ve been picked to take part in the first stage of the London Sinfonietta’s new Blue Touch Paper scheme.  The chosen composers, artists, poets, writers, filmmakers, scientists, etc, will all attend a collaborators’ day on Friday 8th July in London, to find out about each other’s work, hear from some established artists about their collaborations, and to begin to pair up with people with whom we might want to make some work.

In the meantime, I have to make a 5-minute video about me and my work… I’m a little stumped about exactly what I want to say.. but it has to be done this weekend, so watch out for it on here!

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