Due to the amount of compositions I have created, I have rated all of my works on a 3-point scale. Select the quality of artworks you want to see using the left drop-down menu and if you want to only view works from a particular composition series use the right drop-down menu.
Number of artworks: 98 selected | 98 in database
On 30 November, at KM28 in Berlin I announced that I would quit composing and performing as I had wasted my life. I did this whilst lockpicking a padlock which held closed a chain wrapped around my wrists. This announcement was the piece "Jubal Died in the Flood". This was then followed by "Concerto pour la main droite (for Ivan)". The combination of these two works together is called "Deathless".
score30/10/2019 - Worst Behaviour, KM28, Berlin, DE
performed by David Pocknee
30/10/2019 - Worst Behaviour, KM28, Berlin, DE
performed by David Pocknee and Ivan Babinchak Atalay Renqvist
A work for two dictaphones and towel, first performed in Schloss Solitude in September 2019
score13/09/2018 - A few parasites (working title?), Unterer Hirschgang, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE
performed by David Pocknee
Electronic music work using the SEGMOD synthesis programme. Released in September 2019. Pure SEGMOD. One track in each stereo channel. Some of it is played out of a bass amp. Some panning, EQ, compression and limiting but no extra processing or FX.
Segmod release | recording
The newest version of Every/Almost Every: A compendium of almost every playable chord of 1-6 notes solely containing the note E and consisting only of fingered pitches or natural harmonics (up to the 5th partial). It was created using a custom-designed web-browser-based composition tool. This version supersedes all previous versions.
score | online composition tool
Work for flute based on Gray codes. For Frank Gray, Michael Winter and Alex Grimes. Now available on Kathryn Williams' "Coming Up For Air" CD
score | CD07/06/2017 - Coming Up For Air, Islington Mill, Manchester, UK
performed by Kathryn Williams
event
01/09/2017 - Voix Nouvelles, , Royaumont, FR
performed by Kathryn Williams
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07/09/2019 - Coming Up For Air, Lanyon Room, BIFEM, Bendigo, AU
performed by Kathryn Williams
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02/11/2019 - DEEP MINIMALISM 2.0, Southbank Centre, London, UK
performed by Kathryn Williams
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09/06/2019 - Kinetic: SPACE/SENSE, Takk, Manchester, UK
performed by Vonnegut Collective
event poster | photograph
A flautist finds time distorting inside a mysterious cube. This piece exists in 3 versions.
video | main score | flute score
A flautist finds time distorting inside a mysterious cube. This piece exists in 3 versions.
main score | flute score27/02/2016 - St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Richard Craig
audio file | audio stream
A flautist finds time distorting inside a mysterious cube. This piece exists in 3 versions.
main score | flute score
Quick doodle using progress bars to control the form of an improvisation.
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A work for piano about slow changes. It is part of the work "The Teflon King of Many Spirits".
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A twelve-tone work for Bb clarinet, created with my Dodecafinder software. Part of "The Teflon King of Many Spirits".
score | dodecafinder software
A pseudo-twelve-tone work created with my Dodecafinder software and made by layering the piece "Methuselah" and "The Pressure Is Off..." on top of each other.
score | score (113 version) CHECK | MIDI Realization | dodecafinder software
A more cut-down version of "The Teflon king...".
score | dodecafinder software
Work based on the harmonic sequence of "We Doubled Down The Base Camps".
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A music-theatre piece that compiles all the "Parameters" pieces into one large work.
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The same musical material notationally regridded 171 times. See my PhD thesis for more details.
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T-shirt design based on the algorithm used for page-layout in my PhD thesis.
image | adobe illustrator file
05/08/2016 - nu:nord, Univerity of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Mira Benjamin and Gregor Riddell
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07/08/2016 - nu:nord, Union Chapel, London, UK
performed by Mira Benjamin and Gregor Riddell
An ongoing series of scores that provide fixed realizations of existing open text scores, based on performances I have done of them. Includes: Gavin Bryars' "Private Music" and Christian Wolff's "Stones".
score23/11/2014 - ("Private Music") HCMF, Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, UK
performed by David Pocknee
12/09/2015 - ("Stones") Rock Paper Scissors: Rock, Audiotheque, Miami, USA
performed by David Pocknee
A piece for player-piano, created by gridding up paper covered in ejaculate.
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A piece for player-piano, created by gridding up paper covered in ejaculate.
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A piece for player-piano, created by gridding up paper covered in ejaculate.
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A piece for player-piano, created by gridding up paper covered in ejaculate.
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25/10/2015 - University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Leo Svirsky
audio file (version 1 - edited) | audio stream (version 1 - edited)
The same rhythmic cycle re-notated 10 different ways and played simultaneously by piano and player-piano.
score | MIDI file for player-piano25/10/2015 - University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Leo Svirsky
video | audio file | audio stream
A compendium of almost every playable chord of 1-6 notes solely containing the note E and consisting of fingered pitches or natural harmonics. There are 319 chords in total, drawn from a corpus of over 7000 possible (playable and non-playable) combinations, based on an initial set of 17 single-note iterations of the note E playable on the guitar as fingered pitches or natural harmonics.
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Commissioned and performed as part of the Rock Paper Scissors Project with Inlets Ensemble. ROCK PAPER SCISSORS was a concert series performed by Inlets Ensemble exploring sonic and conceptual strategies for creating music with simple, non-musical objects. Held at Audiotheque in Miami Beach during the summer of 2015, each concert focused on one object - rocks, paper or scissors - and featured an extensive program of historical and contemporary works. " is an aleatoric dance, a permutative finger painting coloring book, a rhythmic study using picture frames and chewing gum, a separation of clasped hands and the sounding of a chord in one's mind. It also uses a lot of paper."
video | score | performance grid (dependency) | Inseparable (dependency)19/09/2015 - Rock Paper Scissors: Paper, Audiotheque, Miami, USA
performed by Inlets Ensemble
rock paper scissors concerts
Work for two readers.
buy scores (lulu.com) | score | score front cover | audio stream19/09/2015 - Rock Paper Scissors: Paper, Audiotheque, Miami, USA
performed by Inlets Ensemble
28/10/2015 - Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK
performed by David Pocknee and Ana Lemnaru
31/10/2015 - WEISSLICH 4, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
performed by David Pocknee and Ana Lemnaru
A work for performers, the score, and paint. Originally performed as part of "Nothing Is Surprising" but can be performed separately.
score19/09/2015 - Rock Paper Scissors: Paper, Audiotheque, Miami, USA
performed by Inlets Ensemble
video
Live pianist vs. player-piano. It's about human and machines and music. There are two different versions of this whole piece, although, nowadays, all these pieces can be played separately.
form (version 1) | form (version 2)
An inkjet printer performs the first 94 pages of Cornelis Cardew's Treatise. Published through Much Too Much Noise.
download and info (Much Too Much Noise) | audio stream | liner notes07/04/2017 - Post-Paradise, Centrala, Birmingham, UK
performed by recording
An extension of Tom Johnson's "The Chord Catalogue".
A piece which is probably the world's first ever musical mesostic. Uses Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas as material.
score25/10/2015 - Huddersfield University, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Leo Svirsky
audio stream | video | audio file
I did sound for this short film by Sophie Broadbridge.
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I did sound for this short film by Sophie Broadbridge.
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A series of collages where I correct existing works.
Correction #1: for Jeremiah | Correction #2
The same material is placed in 48 different rhythmic grids.
score10/03/2014 - University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Distractfold Ensemble
audio file | audio stream
Work made from controlling the feedback between different combinations of instrumentation through choreographed re-cabling. More tourable version of the original.
score | performance max patch5/12/2014 - Fuel Cafe Bar, Manchester, UK
performed by Bird Rat Centipede
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Dot-to-dot music piece.
score | eLisp code18/11/2014 - Check Cashing, Miami, USA
performed by Inlets Ensemble
audio stream
A double bass work inspired by the connection between the Israeli military's adoption of post-structuralist philosophy.
score
A subject is made to associate visual stimuli with sounds using Pavlovian conditioning.
A piece inspired by Chronocyclegraph Motion Study method developed by Frank Gilbreth, Vsevolod Meyerhold's Biomechanical Etudes, and the application of contemporary ergonomics via lifting leaking boxes of melted sugar.
info28/06/2013 - NFO Manifesto, GEMAK, Den Haag, NL
performed by David Pocknee
video
21/04/2013 - Leo's House, Den Haag, NL
performed by Leo Svirsky
A set of structured improvisations for solo classical guitar. Performed at Autonoom Centrum in The Hague in the middle of 2013, and in a basement concert in Huddersfield in late 2013
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Work originally written to encourage better improvisation in the Laborde Ensemble.
score21/02/2015 - null point 4. with paper., WASH Project, Buffalo, USA
performed by null point
null point website
A combination of Parameters IX, @textscoreaday works (#14, #296, #86, #250, #365, #209, #231, #160), Ken Friedman's "White Tooth Workshop", the first two movements of "For London", and my work "Drop It".
score03/05/2014 - WEISSLICH 1, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
performed by David Pocknee
video | (#209) gif
On 24th January 2013, The New Fordist Organization performed at Studio Loos in The Hague. At this performance, 2 orchestra pieces, 2 piano pieces and a painting were produced in 45 minutes. Also, our documentary on New Fordism was screened.
24/01/2013 - Studio Loos, Den Haag, NL
performed by David Pocknee, Ana Lemnaru and Andy Ingamells
video
18/05/2012 - SSAoMP, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Leo Svirsky
11/06/2012 - Southeastern Piano Festival, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
performed by Leo Svirsky
video | audio file | audio stream
Explores virtuosity through the use of difficulty as a composable parameter.
score18/05/2012 - SSAoMP, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Trio Spannung
video | audio file | audio stream
01/06/2012 - Codarts, Rotterdam, NL
performed by Trio Spannung
Work based on Asko|Schönberg Ensemble's move towards neoliberalism between 2009-2012.
score20/04/2012 - Grounds, Rotterdam, NL
performed by Asko|Schönberg Ensemble
21/04/2012 - Amsterdam Conservatorium, Amsterdam, NL
performed by Asko|Schönberg Ensemble
22/04/2012 - Korzo Theater, Den Haag, NL
performed by Asko|Schönberg Ensemble
video | audio file
Work for string quartet in which musical parameters are remapped to create internal feedback loops which generate their own material.
score18/05/2012 - SSAoMP (1st Version), Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Hollas Longton, Ivan Babinchak, Maya Felixbrodt and Asaf Gidron
18/05/2012 - SSAoMP, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Jeremiah Runnels
video
03/05/2013 - WEISSLICH 1, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
performed by David Pocknee
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2016-2017 - various venues, Miami, USA
performed by Robert Blatt
nonrecording
19/02/2012 - ("Wood Piece" - part of "Tearjerker"), Poortgebouw, Rotterdam, NL
performed by Ana Lemnaru
video
18/05/2012 - ("6 October 2011") SSAoMP, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Jeremiah Runnels
18/05/2012 - ("Match Piece (H&S Version)") SSAoMP, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by SSAoMP crew
03/05/2014 - ("Match Piece (H&S Version)") Whistling Concert, Coffee Evolution, Huddersfield, NL
performed by David Pocknee, Michael Baldwin, Pat Allison and Andy Ingamells
An evening of work by David Pocknee, Leo Svirsky, Ana Smaragda Lemnaru & Miguel Peres dos Santos. Chaos. 17+ pieces. And the best thing I've ever done.
zine | video (2nd Half - Part 1) | video (2nd Half - Part 2) | programme | organizational stuff18/05/2012 - Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by 30 people
Each movement uses a text from a different European language, drawing connections between our ideas of linguistic beauty and how this is directly connected to a country's economic power at the end of the 19th Century.
score18/05/2012 - Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by SSAoMP choir
video
Arrangement of the first 4 bars of Brian Ferneyhough's "Bone Alphabet" for 9 amateur performers playing from click-tracks.
video | click-track parts
A show reel of works I made between 2010 and 2012 - pretty good if you want an overview of the works I was doing in that period.
video
A series of pieces about sexuality, exploitation and the composition of social situations.
score26/01/2011 - (#1), Yaniv's house, Den Haag, NL
performed by audience
18/05/2011 - (#3) SSAoMP, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Jeremiah Runnels
An abstracted, economically-challenged realization of both a string orchestra and Iannis Xenakis' pivotal composition Metastasis. 92 plastic cups and tin cans were used and connected through a series of metal and nylon wires. It was constructed in a gymnasium at an abandoned elementary school, which was previously the location for the Delta Centre for Contemporary Art in The Hague, The Netherlands. It was then performed by 10 players, receiving instructions via silent disco headphones.
edited video | unedited video17/04/2011 - Delta Center Of Contemporary Art, Den Haag, NL
performed by Delta crew
01/05/2011 - Delta Center Of Contemporary Art, Den Haag, NL
performed by Delta crew
A very dark radio play.
score | audio file (mp3) | audio stream20/04/2011 - (Mvt. 3) Spring Festival, KonCon, Den Haag, NL
performed by David Pocknee, Leo Svirsky and Robert Blatt
01/05/2011 - Delta, Den Haag, NL
performed by David Pocknee, Leo Svirsky and Robert Blatt
27/06/2011 - (Mvt 1&2), Korzo, Den Haag, NL
performed by David Pocknee, Leo Svirsky and Robert Blatt
13/04/2015-19/04/2015 - 87.9FM, Glasgow, UK
link
An epic, three hour long evening of music, theatre and performance exploring the dimensions of terrorism, violence, hysteria and the growing physical and virtual security market intelligence, exactly ten years after the collapse of New York's World Trade Center. Performed on 11 September 2011 at Nutshuis, Den Haag, the evening utilized the entirety of Het Nutshuis, presenting 15 different performances, often simultaneously.
zine | album (Extraordinary Renditions) | a.s.i11/09/2011 - Stockhausen Serves Terrorism: Ten Years Of Sodom and Gomorrah, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble and Anonymous Stateless Immigrants
documentation | video
The world's only _real_ 9/11 piece. All music derived from spectral analyses of the planes hitting the towers, all durations are fractal nestings of the durations between each plane going down.
score11/09/2011 - Stockhausen Serves Terrorism: Ten Years Of Sodom and Gomorrah, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble and Anonymous Stateless Immigrants
Specially written for the Eavesdropping exhibition at Villa Kabilla, Den Haag. A continuous, five hour long work consisting of two separate rooms, connected via microphone. In one room, a five hour long performance involving the continual performance and re-transcription of a piece, surrounded by canvases showing the Dutch music subsidy system. Next to it, a performers in business clothes builds a nest from facebook information about the visitors. These sounds are transmitted and processed in another room, where they excite a bowl filled with non-Newtonian fluid.
catalogue30/11/2011 - eavesdropping, Villa Kabilla, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
documentation | video
Music-theatre work inspired by the stations of the cross. Involving someone drilling their head through a table, and a barbeque on skype.
29/11/2011 - IK Event, Heidegger, Rotterdam, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
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Weird sketch - workshopped once by Modelo62 in November 2011, never performed.
score | audio file (workshop recording)
Work using guitar feedback. Now superceded by 2014 version.
score (zip file)3/06/2010 - De Pip, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
audio file
13/06/2010 - Contact, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police, Yedo Gibson, Ingi Gardar and Angus Barnacle
audio file
All players empty any money in their pockets into a pile in front of them. In art as in life, those with the most money control the cultural agenda.
score13/04/2010 - Kick The Can Protest Concert, De Pip, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
07/06/2010 - Studio Loos, Den Haag, NL
performed by The D€N HAAG A££ $TAR$ €N$EMB£€
audio file
23/10/2010 - Synproject Festival, Jerusalem, IL
performed by Maya Felixbrodt et al.
link
01/01/2011 - somewhere, Jerusalem, IL
performed by Maya Felixbrodt etc.
12/03/2013 - Bangor New Music Festival, Powis Hall, Bangor, UK
performed by Bangor New Music Ensemble
05/12/2015 - CCRMA, Palo Alto, USA
performed by hot karl
video | writing
08/06/2017 - Durham Klang, Palace Green, Durham, UK
performed by N.A.M.E.
link
Work for "speakers" made from strings, plastic cups, knives and music stands, with extended vocal techniques.
score01/07/2010 - Poortgebouw, Rotterdam, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
audio file
22/01/2011 - Studio Loos, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
22/05/2012 - Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Los Caballeros
12/12/2017 - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK
performed by SHOAL
Basically you just playback the sound of an audience waiting for a concert to start to them, gradually decreasing the delay on the signal.
max patch (.zip)18/05/2012 - Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by SSAoMP crew
A One-Act Aktionist Chamber Opera. There's weed, beer, fast food, vibrators and double bass, guitar sex and some George Bataille. Contains "Killing Floor", which can be performed separately.
03/10/2010 - Neoism event, Worm, Rotterdam, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
video
19/01/2011 - Zaal100, Amsterdam, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
Originally part of Acid Police's "Potlatch".
score03/10/2010 - Neoism, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
performed by David Pocknee
video | video (potlatch)
19/01/2011 - Zaal100, Amsterdam, NL
performed by David Pocknee
In 2011, David Pocknee and Jeremiah Runnels re-arranged the first six "groups" of "Gruppen" for amateur orchestra, re-writing the entire piece using simpler notation and click-tracks. More info can be found in my paper "Virtuosity, Flow and Re-notating Modernism". Never performed, recording is from a rehearsal with CREA orchestra in Amsterdam from 31 May 2011
instrumental parts | sibelius and pdf files | rehearsal recording | click-tracks | paper
Bangs and scales.
score08/04/2010 - Amsterdam Conservatorium, Amsterdam, NL
performed by Nieuw Ensemble
audio file
09/04/2010 - KonCon, Den Haag, NL
performed by Nieuw Ensemble
audio file
Porn and Andrea Dworkin and No-Input Mixers etc.
score08/02/2010 - KC Lab, Korzo5Hoog, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble, Hollas Longton and Maya Felixbrodt
audio file
This piece is inspired by the rumour that the guitarist John Williams has all extraneous string noise digitally removed on his later records. Recording featuring Robert Blatt.
score | audio fileFebruary 2009 - KC Lab, Korzo5Hoog, Den Haag, UK
performed by Robert Blatt
Work about the failures of science and the tragedy of Paul Kammerer.
scoreApril 2009 - Spring Festival, KC, Den Haag, NL
performed by Germaine Sijstermans and Marlys Teeuwen
audio file
19/09/2009 - Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Jan Willem Troost
audio file | video
15/10/2010 - Incubate Festival, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, NL
performed by Jan Willem Troost
Each note on the piano has a gravitational pull on a set of recorded string samples.
scoreApril 2009 - Spring Festival, KonCon, Den Haag, NL
performed by Guus Janssen
audio file
Work for singer and ensemble based on the periodic table.
score2008 - Huddersfield University, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Firebird Ensemble
audio file
Work for guitar quartet, using harmonics. Winner of the Carl von Ossietzky competition.
score | audio file
February 2008 - Hudderfield University, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Bridget Carey
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