Dresden Residency: Week 14
My residency in Dresden enters it’s final chapter! This week, I managed to stay just in time to see the opening of the 2019 Dresden Music Festival with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. I was…
Dresden Residency: Week 13
To say that we’re crashing into the final two weeks of my time in Dresden is weird. I simultaneously feel like I’ve been here forever and for hardly any time at all. I’m going to chat a…
Dresden Residency: Week 12
It’s the Tanzwoche Festival in Dresden this week and I’ve been collaborating with the Las Tapas Dance Lab on a performance at Projeckt Theatre in Neustadt, Dresden! Taking inspiration from Punch Drunk, we took advantage of the…
Dresden Residency: Week 11
One of my highlights this week was definitely being treated to an evening of analogue technology! Daniel Williams is a composer working here in Dresden, whom I met during his work on ‘Der Flüchtige Körper’ which was…
Dresden Residency: Week 10
Score completions! I’ve been working remotely with Stuart Beard, a colleague and friend of mine from London to complete a private commission for solo tuba. I’m proud of how this piece has turned out, particularly as it’s…
Dresden Residency: Week 9
Three performances this weekend, two in Dresden and one in Leipzig. Again, all small-scale locations so perfect for trying out new stuff and meeting people who are doing similar. Marina and I got to continue with where…
Dresden Residency: Week 8
This is a very ‘mid-process’ week so whilst there is a lot going on in my head, none of it is quite cohesive enough to write about. What’s nice though is being here. There is a lot…
Dresden Residency: Week 7
Another week and onto more improvisational antics. I have Marina Schlagintweit visiting me here and we’re finally finding the time to continue with the work we did with the Rokbook Collective in Viitasaari for the Time of…
Dresden Residency: Week 6
Yesterday saw a successful performance of ‘Pesudo Spiritum’, my new work for Dancer and Instrumentalist for Dresden’s Tonlagen Festival for Contemporary Music. https://youtu.be/yEcxowchR3U To paraphrase a bit from my last post, the work is called ‘Pseudo Spiritum’ meaning…
Dresden Residency: Week 5
This week welcomes the beginning of the Tonlagen Festival for Contemporary Music in Hellerau this week, for which I’ve prepared a performance installation which premieres next Tuesday 19th March. You can find us in the programme here! ‘Pseudo…