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Pythagoras’ Tool Kit Graphic Score Project

In November Rachel Warr and I did a cool outreach project around Pythagoras’ Tool Kit for the University of Southampton’s Hands on Humanities Day. You can watch the broadcast about the project and find out more at the special project Padlet.

‘Pythagoras’ Toolkit’

I’m really delighted that Pythagoras’ Toolkit, led by Ensemble Paramirabo (Montreal) and involving me as co-creator, composer and conductor, has been awarded funding from the Canadian Council for the Arts.

In Pythagoras’ Toolkit Rachel Warr (co-creator/director, Dotted Line Theatre) and I will bring to life, through puppetry and live music, a modern-day Pythagoras who will explore sound, space (conceptual/sound/realworld), rhythm, harmony and dissonance (order and chaos), instrument making/design, dance, musical textures and ways of constructing music.

The production, currently planning for a tour in 2021, will feature musicians from Ensemble Paramirabo (Canada), Workers Union Ensemble (UK) and two musically literate puppeteers working with a specially created Pythagoras puppet.

Rachel and I are concocting ideas already… more soon!

‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’ Video

Just uploaded a video of Ensemble Paramirabo‘s performance of my The Circus Animals’ Desertion from 7 November at Turner Sims in Southampton.

Ensemble Paramirabo UK tour

Canadian new music group, Ensemble Paramirabo performed my The Circus Animals’ Desertion in Turner Sims as part of the University of Southampton Music Department’s Lunchtime Concert Series on Monday. It was great to have the ensemble here and they did an awesome job on my piece. They are also playing the piece tonight at a concert at Birmingham Conservatoire.

Ensemble Paramirabo @ Turner Sims – Turner Sims Concert Hall – Southampton – 07/11/16

What	Ensemble Paramirabo @ Turner Sims
When	Monday, November 7, 2016 1:00pm - All Ages
Where	Turner Sims Concert Hall (map) University of Southampton Southampton
Other Info	Canadian group Ensemble Paramirabo will perform as part of the University of Southampton lunchtime concert series. Their programme will include the UK premiere of my new piece for them 'The Circus Animals' Desertion'.

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Ensemble Paramirabo: ‘Blurred Boundaries’

Ensemble Paramirabo will premiere my new twenty-minute piece, The Circus Animals’ Desertion, as they launch their 6th concert season on 23rd September with ‘Blurred Boundaries, a concert dedicated to exploring music on the edges of genres.

Other works on the programme are pop-inspired works by New York Indie Classical stars Nico Muhly (Doublespeak) and Missy Mazzoli (Still Life with Avalanche), the Montreal premiere of Transported for amplified sextet and electronics by Toronto composer Rose Bolton and premieres by Montreal jazzers Philippe Côté and Karine Bétournay.

The concert will take place at the Salle multimédia du Conservatoire in Montreal.

I’m super excited to be going out for this and to working with the ensemble in a few weeks time!

Ensemble Paramirabo Commission

I’m excited to be writing a new work for Montreal-based Ensemble Paramirabo, which they will premiere in September. I met them at the mise-en festival in New York a couple of years ago.