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17-18 May 2024
Schlossmediale Festival at Schloss Werdenberg, Switzerland, with Explore Ensemble, Lotte Betts-Dean, Christian Mason, and SWR Experimentalstudio
18 June 2024
Aldeburgh Festival with Explore Ensemble and Zubin Kanga. New works by Larry Goves and Lara Agar, plus recent works by Laura Bowler and Alex Paxton
Summer 2024
New project for electric guitar and live electronics
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24 January 2024
Curation and live electronics for RCM Electronics Concert with student performers, including wors by Kaija Saariaho and Joanna Bailie.
7 December 2023
ZKM Karlsruhe / Giga-Hertz Prize Festival: Performance with Explore Ensemble, Lotte Betts-Dean, and SWR Experimentalstudio. Music by John Croft, Beatrice Dillon, and Christian Mason.
23 October 2023
Venice Biennale Musica: Panel discussion about composition and electronics in Fausto Romitelli’s ‘Professor Bad Trip’
September 2023
Recorded and Produced ‘Parallaxis Forma’ a new album of Catherine Lamb’s music for Another Timbre, with Lotte Betts-Dean, Explore Ensemble, and Exaudi Vocal Ensemble
14 August 2023
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival with Explore Ensemble and Alex Paxton
1 July 2023
Spitalfields Festival with Explore Ensemble, Klaus Lang, and Exaudi Vocal Ensemble
21 June 2023
Wigmore Hall with Explore Ensemble
17 June 2023
Louth Contemporary Music Society with Explore Ensemble, Irish debut
30 May 2023
’Spherical Sound: from Ambisonics to Atmos’. Blog on NMC about spatial audio production in the new ‘Perfect Offering’ album with Explore Ensemble.
14 April 2023
Kings Place with Explore Ensemble
27 November 2022
hcmf// with Explore Ensemble: Mark Fell UK premiere
24 November 2022
Explore Ensemble debut / Mark Fell world premiere, Centro Pecci, Italy, co-produced with OOH Sounds.
2 November 2022
Kings Place - Voices Unwrapped with Explore Ensemble and Juliet Fraser
16 October 2022
No Bounds with Explore Ensemble. Music by Morton Feldman, Beatrice Dillon, and Nakul Krishnamurty
10 September 2022
Festival of New with Explore Ensemble. Music by Lawrence Dunn, Neil Luck, and Joanna Bailie
8 July 2022
Wigmore Hall debut concert with Explore Ensemble [link]
17 June 2022
LCMF with Explore Ensemble: UK Premiere of Clara Iannotta’s Eclipse Plumage
25-30 April 2022
Residency at Britten Pears Arts with Explore Ensemble
23 April 2022
Her still singing limbs performed by Sebastiaan Kemner at Noorderkerk in Amsterdam [link]
12 February 2022
Programming, coaching, and performing with Explore Ensemble and RCM students as part of RCM’s Chamber Music Festival [link]
2 February 2022
The Holy Fool live radio performance on NPO Radio 4 (Netherlands) by Sebastiaan Kemner, Silbersee, and Lonlinoise [link]
18 November 2021
hcmf// with Explore Ensemble, Andrea Valle, and Mauro Lanza [link]
6-8 November 2021
November Music festival with Explore Ensemble, Juliet Fraser, Andrea Valle, and Mauro Lanza [link]
24 October 2021
Transit Festival with Explore Ensemble and Juliet Fraser [link]
4 October 2021
’Zwam’ performed by Lonelinoise at International Chamber Music Festival Schiermonnikoog in the Netherlands.
30 September 2021
Glasgow Cathedral Festival with Explore Ensemble and Lotte-Betts Dean.
June 2021
Artist of the Month with hcmf//
Links: Announcement // Feature 1 // Feature 2
12 June 2021
World premiere — ‘The Holy Fool’ for solo trombone, voices, harp, and string quartet, with Sebastiaan Kemner, Silbersee, and Lonelinoise, as part of the Uitreiking Nederlandse Muziekprijs concert ‘Walls of the Universe’, de Doelen, Rotterdam, NL. [link]
World premiere — ‘Three Responsories’, arrangements of three Hildegard von Bingen chants with Sebastiaan Kemner, Silbersee, and Residentie Orkest, conducted by Ed Spanjaard, as part of the Uitreiking Nederlandse Muziekprijs concert ‘Walls of the Universe’, de Doelen, Rotterdam, NL. [link]
24 April 2021
Interviewed on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show for the first of two ‘Explore Ensemble in Session’ programmes.
1 May 2021
Interviewed on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show for the second of two ‘Explore Ensemble in Session’ programmes.
20 November 2020
Live radio concert at hcmf// with Explore Ensemble and BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show [link].
26 April 2020
Performance of Semantron by Sam Cave in London. [postponed]
April 2020
New work for percussion and live electronics with Angela Wai Nok Hui [postponed]
25 February 2020
Presenting a concert and performing electronics with Explore Ensemble at City University of London, recorded by BBC Radio 3 for broadcast on the New Music Show.
28 January 2020
Presenting a concert and performing electronics with Explore Ensemble at Greenwich University’s Loudspeaker Orchestra Series
24 January 2020
Running a free public workshop on spatialisation at Call & Response Studios, in residence at Somerset House Studios.
13 December 2019
Presenting a concert and performing electronics with Explore Ensemble at Kings Place
3 December 2019
Performance of ‘Intralatent’ for piano, percussion, and live electronics with GBSR Duo at City, University of London - supported by PRS Foundation’s Open Fund, Arts Council England, and the Hinrichsen Foundation.
2 December 2019
Performance of ‘Intralatent’ for piano, percussion, and live electronics with GBSR Duo at EXPO, Oxford - supported by PRS Foundation’s Open Fund, Arts Council England, and the Hinrichsen Foundation.
18 November 2019
Premiere of ‘Intralatent’ for piano, percussion, and live electronics with GBSR Duo at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - supported by PRS Foundation’s Open Fund, Arts Council England, and the Hinrichsen Foundation.
8 November 2019
Presenting a concert and performing electronics with Explore Ensemble at Cambridge Music Festival
18 October 2019
’Semantron’ for guitar and live electronics, performance with Sam Cave, Brunel University
26 June 2019
’Breaths between moons’ for bass flute and electronics with Jaume Darbra Fa, Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
13 June 2019
’bot.radio’ installation, plus concert and presentations with Explore Ensemble at RNCM’s Future Music festival.
22 May 2019
Electronics and video for Zubin Kanga at Nonclassical, The Victoria, Dalston.
14 May 2019
EXPO Oxford: bot.radio installation
26 April 2019
Conference paper on Morton Feldman’s Piano Violin Viola Cello at Again & Again Conference, ahead of concert of same piece by Explore Ensemble at City University.
27-29 Mar 2019
IRCAM Forum: Presenting poster on technology in bass guitar and electronics work, Unfurl.
25 Feb 2019
EXPO Oxford: New work for bass flute and live electronics, breaths between moons, with Taylor Maclennan.
1 March 2019
Sound and Video tech for Zubin Kanga, concert at Royal Holloway University of London.
10-22 Feb 2019
IMPULS Graz: New collaborative installation with the Algorithms that Matter project at the International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music
5 Feb 2019
Dutch premiere of Her still singing limbs, with Sebastiaan Kemner at Uilenburgersjoel, Amsterdam.
29 Nov 18
Modern Art Oxford / Art of Noises: ’Unfurl’ – New work for bass guitar and live electronics
17 Nov 18
HCMF 2018: Electronics & Video with Zubin Kanga, 4pm Sat 17 Nov in Phipps Hall, University of Huddersfield.
More info
24 Nov 18 - HCMF 2018
Explore Ensemble and EXAUDI perform Sciarrino’s Carnaval.
More info
10 Oct 18 - EXPO Oxford
Bass guitar and live electronics improvisation
More info
September 2018
Explore Ensemble at Kings Place, INTO THE VORTEX
Gérard Grisey's Vortex Temporum, world premiere of Lisa Illean's 'Weather a rare blue', plus music by Fausto Romitelli, and Messiaen.
More info
June 2018
Her still singing limbs
Recital in Hollywell Music Room. Sebastiaan Kemner (trombone), NM (electronics), 26.06.18.
May 2018
Her still singing limbs
Composers Concert at Oxford. Sebastiaan Kemner (trombone), NM (electronics).
May 2018
Explore Ensemble in Oxford
Music by Joanna Bailie, Peter Ablinger, Morton Feldman, and Jonathan Packham
Pre-concert talk with Joanna Bailie
Interview with Joanna Bailie
May 2018
New work: Her still singing limbs
For trombone and live electronics
Premiere by Sebastiaan Kemner at Modern Art Oxford as part of EMPRES: The Art of Noises
April 2018
Semantron at Brunel
Performance of Semantron for guitar and electronics at Brunel University by Thomas Smith
February 2018
Explore Ensemble at Principal Sound Festival
Two concerts, one shared with EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble.
Music by Luigi Nono, Rebecca Saunders, John Croft, Cage, Feldman, Kurtag, and Sciarrino
Guardian Review
Arts Desk Review
February 2018
New work: Ambages / Explore Ensemble in Oxford
Premiere of Ambages by Taylor Maclennan, Deni Teo, and NM, featuring music by John Croft and Saariaho.
Pre-concert talk with John Croft.
Interview with John Croft
November 2017
Explore Ensemble at HCMF 2017: Tracing the Moon
World premiere of Patricia Alessandrini's 'Tracer la lune d'un doigt', Explore Ensemble commission, and music by Steven Daverson, Enno Poppe, and Fausto Romitelli. Performances in Oxford and at Goldsmiths, University of London
Interview with Patricia Alessandrini
5:4 Review