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Jubal Died in the Flood (2019)

music for performer lockpicking and talking

On 30 November, at KM28 in Berlin I announced that I would quit composing and performing. 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".

score

Presentations

30/10/2019 - Worst Behaviour, KM28, Berlin, DE
performed by David Pocknee

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Concerto pour la main droite (for Ivan) (2019)

music for penis

A new complexity work for hand and penis.

score

Presentations

30/10/2019 - Worst Behaviour, KM28, Berlin, DE
performed by David Pocknee and Ivan Babinchak Atalay Renqvist

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Swaddle Me Like A Child (2018)

music for two dictaphones and towel

A work for two dictaphones and towel, first performed in Schloss Solitude in September 2018

score

Presentations

13/09/2018 - A few parasites (working title?), Unterer Hirschgang, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, DE
performed by David Pocknee

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Mel (2018)

music for SEGMOD synthesis software

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
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Every (2018)

music for guitar

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
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Gray Winter Grimes (2017)

music for flute

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 | CD

Presentations

07/06/2017 - Coming Up For Air, Islington Mill, Manchester, UK
performed by Kathryn Williams
event

01/09/2017 - Voix Nouvelles, , Royaumont, FR
performed by Kathryn Williams
audio stream

07/09/2019 - Coming Up For Air, Lanyon Room, BIFEM, Bendigo, AU
performed by Kathryn Williams
event

02/11/2019 - DEEP MINIMALISM 2.0, Southbank Centre, London, UK
performed by Kathryn Williams
event

18/01/2026 - Kallion XVI nykymusiikkipäivät, Pertin Valinta, Helsinki, FI
performed by Hanna Kinnunen
event

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Economics 2017 (2017)

music for 6-10 instruments

Update of the original Economics.

score

Presentations

09/06/2019 - Kinetic: SPACE/SENSE, Takk, Manchester, UK
performed by Vonnegut Collective
event poster | photograph

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But I Guess, In The End, We Just Moved Furniture Around (Video Version) (2017)

with Angela Guyton and Richard Craig

video for screen

A flautist finds time distorting inside a mysterious cube. This piece exists in 3 versions.

video | main score | flute score
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But I Guess, In The End, We Just Moved Furniture Around (Concert Version) (2017)

with Angela Guyton and Richard Craig

music for flute and audio playback

A flautist finds time distorting inside a mysterious cube. This piece exists in 3 versions.

main score | flute score

Presentations

27/02/2016 - St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Richard Craig
audio file | audio stream

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But I Guess, In The End, We Just Moved Furniture Around (Installation Version) (2017)

with Angela Guyton and Richard Craig

music-theatre for cube installation, flute, video, audio playback (4 channels), furniture-mover, chair, table and metronome

A flautist finds time distorting inside a mysterious cube. This piece exists in 3 versions.

main score | flute score
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Form #1: Progress (2017)

music for 3 improvisors

Quick doodle using progress bars to control the form of an improvisation.

score
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Methuselah (2017)

music for piano

A work for piano about slow changes. It is part of the work "The Teflon King of Many Spirits".

score
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The Pressure Is Off, So Scramble Your Demons I (2017)

music for clarinet

A twelve-tone work for Bb clarinet, created with my Dodecafinder software. Part of "The Teflon King of Many Spirits".

score | dodecafinder software
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The Teflon King Of Many Spirits (2017)

music for clarinet, bassoon, french horn, piano, percussion, viola and double bass

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
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The Teflon King Of Many Spirits (cl/db/perc version) (2017)

music for clarinet, percussion and double bass

A more cut-down version of "The Teflon king...".

score | dodecafinder software
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It's A Diagram If You Believe It, A Relic If Not (2017)

music for 4 tunable sustaining instruments

Work based on the harmonic sequence of "We Doubled Down The Base Camps".

score
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Parameters VIII: The Flawed Light of Love and Grief (2017)

music-theatre for two actors

Piece for two actors.

score
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Parameters XII: All Our Alleys (2017)

music-theatre for lots of people

A music-theatre piece that compiles all the "Parameters" pieces into one large work.

score
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Augenmusik VII: Our Syntax: 3 Pulses 1.0 Second Apart (2016)

music for imaginary percussionist or analogue clock

The same musical material notationally regridded 171 times. See my PhD thesis for more details.

score
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5x5 Thesis T-shirt (2016)

design for t-shirt

T-shirt design based on the algorithm used for page-layout in my PhD thesis.

image | adobe illustrator file
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5 Short Piano Pieces for Robert Blatt (2016)

video for piano and dice

Some pieces for Robert. Piano and dice.

video
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We Doubled Down The Base Camps (2016)

music for violin and cello

Work involving two performers listening two each other.

score

Presentations

05/08/2016 - nu:nord, Univerity of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Mira Benjamin and Gregor Riddell
video

07/08/2016 - nu:nord, Union Chapel, London, UK
performed by Mira Benjamin and Gregor Riddell

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Realizations (2016)

music for realizations

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".

score

Presentations

23/11/2014 - ("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

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Augenmusik 1b: Substance (2015)

music for player-piano and video

A piece for player-piano, created by gridding up paper covered in ejaculate.

video
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Augenmusik Ic: The Grid (2015)

music for player-piano and video

A piece for player-piano, created by gridding up paper covered in ejaculate.

video
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Augenmusik Id: Sensitivity (2015)

music for player-piano and video

A piece for player-piano, created by gridding up paper covered in ejaculate.

video
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Augenmusik Ie: A Terrible Moment (2015)

music for player-piano and video

A piece for player-piano, created by gridding up paper covered in ejaculate.

video
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Augenmusik V: Blooper Reel (2015)

music for piano and video

The same material rhythmically re-notated 8 different ways.

score

Presentations

25/10/2015 - University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Leo Svirsky
audio file (version 1 - edited) | audio stream (version 1 - edited)

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Augenmusik VI: Asch (2015)

music for piano and player-piano

The same rhythmic cycle re-notated 10 different ways and played simultaneously by piano and player-piano.

score | MIDI file for player-piano

Presentations

25/10/2015 - University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Leo Svirsky
video | audio file | audio stream

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Almost Every (2015)

music for guitar

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.

score
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Nothing Is Surprising (2015)

music-theatre for 3 performers

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)

Presentations

19/09/2015 - Rock Paper Scissors: Paper, Audiotheque, Miami, USA
performed by Inlets Ensemble
rock paper scissors concerts

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Cipher for the Lighthouse Twins (2015)

music-theatre for two readers

Work for two readers.

buy scores (lulu.com) | score | score front cover | audio stream

Presentations

19/09/2015 - 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

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Inseparable (2015)

music-theatre for performers, score and two colours of paint

A work for performers, the score, and paint. Originally performed as part of "Nothing Is Surprising" but can be performed separately.

score

Presentations

19/09/2015 - Rock Paper Scissors: Paper, Audiotheque, Miami, USA
performed by Inlets Ensemble
video

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I Can Do Better (2015)

with Ana Smaragda Lemnaru and Leo Svirsky

music for piano, player-piano, piano, video and electronics

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)

Presentations

25/10/2015 - Huddersfield University, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Leo Svirsky and Winfried Ritsch's RHEA system
video

09/10/2015 - Pianos Without Organs Festival, Greywalls Hall, Raleigh, NC, USA
performed by Anatoly Larkin
festival

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MG3250 Performs Cornelis Cardew's "Treatise" (2015)

music for printer

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 notes

Presentations

07/04/2017 - Post-Paradise, Centrala, Birmingham, UK
performed by recording

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The Chord Catalogue (redux) (2015)

music for player-piano and video

An extension of Tom Johnson's "The Chord Catalogue".

Presentations

25/10/2015 - Huddersfield University, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Winfried Ritsch's RHEA system
video

09/10/2015 - Pianos Without Organs Festival, Greywalls Hall, Raleigh, NC, USA
performed by player-piano
festival

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A Beethoven Mesostic (2015)

music for piano

A piece which is probably the world's first ever musical mesostic. Uses Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas as material.

score

Presentations

25/10/2015 - Huddersfield University, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Leo Svirsky
audio stream | video | audio file

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The Descent (2015)

music for piano

Piano piece that goes down.

score
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Blood on Hand (soundtrack) (2015)

with Sophie Broadbridge and Tom Hartford

music for film

I did sound for this short film by Sophie Broadbridge.

video
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Moments from a window ledge (soundtrack) (2015)

with Sophie Broadbridge and Tom Hartford

music for film

I did sound for this short film by Sophie Broadbridge.

video
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Correction Series (2014)

music for collage

A series of collages where I correct existing works.

Correction #1: for Jeremiah | Correction #2
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Augenmusik IV: Paper Work (2014)

music for flute, clarinet, piano and cello

The same material is placed in 48 different rhythmic grids.

score

Presentations

10/03/2014 - University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Distractfold Ensemble
audio file | audio stream

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Parameters Xb: Micromanagement 2014 (2014)

music for 2 guitars, 2 amplifiers, 2 laptops, 4 distortion pedals and many audio cables

Work made from controlling the feedback between different combinations of instrumentation through choreographed re-cabling. More tourable version of the original.

score | performance max patch

Presentations

5/12/2014 - Fuel Cafe Bar, Manchester, UK
performed by Bird Rat Centipede
video

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Chronotopes (2014)

music for any-sized ensemble of pitched, equal-tempered instruments

Dot-to-dot music piece.

score | eLisp code

Presentations

18/11/2014 - Check Cashing, Miami, USA
performed by Inlets Ensemble
audio stream

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Some Analogue Heat Maps for Leo Svirsky (2014)

music for piano

Work for pianist, presented as part of the essay "What Some Dead White Guy Did: A Statistical Topology Of Keyboard Usage In Beethoven's Sonatas For Pianoforte" in the "CeReNeM Journal".

score | article
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Infestation (Walking Through Walls) (2014)

music for double bass

A double bass work inspired by the connection between the Israeli military's adoption of post-structuralist philosophy.

score
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The Fugal Countdown (2014)

music for piano

Bach fugue version of Europe's "The Final Countdown" theme.

score | midi | audio
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I Just Fugued-Out The Love Of My Dreams (2014)

music for piano

Bach fugue version of Weezer's "I Just Threw Out The Love of my Dreams" theme.

score | midi | audio
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Prypiat (soundtrack) (2014)

with Tom Hartford

music for film

I did sound for this short film by Tom Hartford.

video
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NFO: Conditioned (2013)

music-theatre for 2 performers

A subject is made to associate visual stimuli with sounds using Pavlovian conditioning.

Presentations

28/06/2013 - NFO Manifesto, GEMAK, Den Haag, NL
performed by David Pocknee and Robert Blatt
info | video

14/02/2013 - WEISSLICH 2, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
performed by David Pocknee and Michael Baldwin
info

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NFO: For Frank Gilbreth (2013)

with Ana Lemnaru

music-theatre for performers

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.

info

Presentations

28/06/2013 - NFO Manifesto, GEMAK, Den Haag, NL
performed by David Pocknee
video

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Chronotope (2013)

music for piano

Dot-to-dot music piece.

instructions | example score | max patch (.zip)

Presentations

21/04/2013 - Leo's House, Den Haag, NL
performed by Leo Svirsky

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Between Jailbait And The Dead (2013)

music for improvising electric guitarist and improvising internet-video-searcher

Noise and nonsense.

score | video
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The Laborde Guitar Collection (2013)

music for improvising guitarist

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

score
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Laborde I (2013)

music for variable ensemble

Work originally written to encourage better improvisation in the Laborde Ensemble.

score

Presentations

21/02/2015 - null point 4. with paper., WASH Project, Buffalo, USA
performed by null point
null point website

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Repository #1 (2013)

music-theatre for performer

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".

score

Presentations

03/05/2014 - WEISSLICH 1, Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK
performed by David Pocknee
video | (#209) gif

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Plastic Cup Permutations (2013)

music for plastic cups

I sometimes play this as part of Repository #1.

score
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Total (2013)

music for 2 percussionists

Experiment in nested rhythms. Never played.

score
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Coca Cola Headphones (2013)

with Alex Grimes, Michael Baldwin and Pablo Vergara

headphones for listening

Headphones that allow you to hear through coca-cola cans, with crickets in etc. Created for a site-specific at Huddersfield market with Peter Ablinger.

photo | photo | photo | photo | photo
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NFO: Prototypes (2013)

with Ana Smaragda Lemnaru and Andy Ingamells

music-theatre for various

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.

Presentations

24/01/2013 - Studio Loos, Den Haag, NL
performed by David Pocknee, Ana Lemnaru and Andy Ingamells
video

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Augenmusik I: The Grid Is A Terrible Moment For Sensitivity And Substance (after John Cage and Jordan Mackenzie) [Book I] (2012)

music for piano

A piece for solo piano, created by gridding up paper covered in ejaculate.

score

Presentations

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

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Augenmusik II: Bangscale II: Fantasia (2012)

music for clarinet, piano and violin

Explores virtuosity through the use of difficulty as a composable parameter.

score

Presentations

18/05/2012 - 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

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Augenmusik III: The Picture Of Asko|Schönberg (2012)

music for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, violin, viola, cello and double bass

Work based on Asko|Schönberg Ensemble's move towards neoliberalism between 2009-2012.

score

Presentations

20/04/2012 - 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

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Parameters I: The Myth Of Liberal Democracy (2012)

music for string quartet

Work for string quartet in which musical parameters are remapped to create internal feedback loops which generate their own material.

score

Presentations

18/05/2012 - SSAoMP (1st Version), Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Hollas Longton, Ivan Babinchak, Maya Felixbrodt and Asaf Gidron

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Parameters III: My Massive Pollocks (2012)

with Ana Smaragda Lemnaru

music-theatre for two improvising saxophonists

Two saxophone improvisors are attached to an apparatus that creates notation on the floor by spilling ink when they play.

score

Presentations

18/05/2012 - SSAoMP, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by
video

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Parameters VII: Infectious Diseases In Cattle (2012)

dance for four dancers

Work for four dancers in which their balance is undermined by creating internal feedback loops.

score

Presentations

18/05/2012 - SSAoMP, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by [object Object]
video

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Parameters IX: The Obscure Moon LIghting An Obscure World (2012)

music-theatre for performer

Text score for solo performers flipping a coin.

score

Presentations

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
video

2016-2017 - various venues, Miami, USA
performed by Robert Blatt
nonrecording

16/01/2026 - Kallion XVI nykymusiikkipäivät, Pertin Valinta, Helsinki, FI
performed by Naarmu
event

18/01/2026 - Kallion XVI nykymusiikkipäivät, Pertin Valinta, Helsinki, FI
performed by Naarmu
event

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Text Pieces 2010-2012 (2012)

music for performers

Collection of text pieces.

score

Presentations

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

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Some Sadomasochistic Aspects of Musical Pleasure (SSAoMP) (2012)

music-theatre for performers

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 stuff

Presentations

18/05/2012 - Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by 30 people

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The Beauty of European Languages (2012)

music for amateur choir

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.

score

Presentations

18/05/2012 - Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by SSAoMP choir
video

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Labyrinth II (2012)

music for 2-7 players on one piano

Work for multiple people at one piano, moving between a set of connected modes, each of which has one note different.

score

Presentations

18/05/2012 - Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by SSAoMP crew
video

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9 dps = 1 Steve Schick (2012)

music for 9 percussionists

Arrangement of the first 4 bars of Brian Ferneyhough's "Bone Alphabet" for 9 amateur performers playing from click-tracks.

video | click-track parts
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Show Reel: Selected Works 2010-2012 (2012)

video for video

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
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The Cotard Etudes (-1)

social-engineering for performers

A series of pieces about sexuality, exploitation and the composition of social situations.

score

Presentations

26/01/2011 - (#1), Yaniv's house, Den Haag, NL
performed by audience

18/05/2011 - (#3) SSAoMP, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Jeremiah Runnels

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Cotard Etude #5: Parameters VI: Codex (2011)

music-theatre for string quartet

A string quartet masturbates each other.

score
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Proposition 2: Nothing is Born From Nothing (2011)

with Robert Blatt

music-theatre for 10 performers

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 video

Presentations

17/04/2011 - 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

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For London (2011)

radio play for piano, electronics, electric guitar, Środa organ and answering machine

A very dark radio play.

score | audio file (mp3) | audio stream

Presentations

20/04/2011 - (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

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Stockhausen Serves Terrorism: Ten Years Of Sodom and Gomorrah (2011)

music-theatre for performers and audience

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.i

Presentations

11/09/2011 - 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

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Crash (2011)

music for 2 keyboards a quartertone apart and tape

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.

score

Presentations

11/09/2011 - Stockhausen Serves Terrorism: Ten Years Of Sodom and Gomorrah, Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble and Anonymous Stateless Immigrants

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Acid Police Noise Ensemble's "Pars Pro Toto" (2011)

with Acid Police Noise Ensemble

installation for performers

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.

catalogue

Presentations

30/11/2011 - eavesdropping, Villa Kabilla, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
documentation | video

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Stations (2011)

with Acid Police Noise Ensemble

music-theatre for 5 performers, stuff from hardware store

Music-theatre work inspired by the stations of the cross. Involving someone drilling their head through a table, and a barbeque on skype.

Presentations

29/11/2011 - IK Event, Heidegger, Rotterdam, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
video

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All Of Those Whose Ears Are Vacant Passageways For His Word (2011)

music for piccolo, clarinet, trumpet, piano, vibraphone, violin, cello and double bass

Weird sketch - workshopped once by Modelo62 in November 2011, never performed.

score | audio file (workshop recording)
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Parameters X: Micromanagement (2010)

music for 2 guitars, 2 amplifiers, 4 laptops, 4 distortion pedals, many audio cables, transcriber and variable ensemble (1-10 players)

Work using guitar feedback. Now superceded by 2014 version.

score (zip file)

Presentations

3/06/2010 - De Pip, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble
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13/06/2010 - Contact, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police, Yedo Gibson, Ingi Gardar and Angus Barnacle
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Economics (2010)

music for 6-10 players of any instrument with controllable pitch, volume and dynamics

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.

score

Presentations

13/04/2010 - 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

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String Trio No. 1 (2010)

music for 3 performers

Work for "speakers" made from strings, plastic cups, knives and music stands, with extended vocal techniques.

score

Presentations

01/07/2010 - 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

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For Audience (2010)

music for audience and live electronics

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)

Presentations

18/05/2012 - Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
performed by SSAoMP crew

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"Potlatch": A One-Act Aktionist Chamber Opera (2010)

with Acid Police Noise Ensemble

music-theatre for performers

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.

Presentations

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

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Killing Floor (2010)

music-theatre for electric guitarist, dictaphone, cling-film, mattress and sandpaper underwear

Originally part of Acid Police's "Potlatch".

score

Presentations

03/10/2010 - Neoism, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
performed by David Pocknee
video | video (potlatch)

19/01/2011 - Zaal100, Amsterdam, NL
performed by David Pocknee

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Arrangement of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Gruppen" for amateur orchestra (2010)

with Jeremiah Runnels

music for amateur orchestra

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
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Bangscale (2010)

music for flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, guitar, mandolin, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello and double bass

Bangs and scales.

score

Presentations

08/04/2010 - Amsterdam Conservatorium, Amsterdam, NL
performed by Nieuw Ensemble
audio file

09/04/2010 - KonCon, Den Haag, NL
performed by Nieuw Ensemble
audio file

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...and the photograph makes the woman dead... (revision) (2010)

music for electric guitar, piano, noise musician, violin, viola and tape

Porn and Andrea Dworkin and No-Input Mixers etc.

score

Presentations

08/02/2010 - KC Lab, Korzo5Hoog, Den Haag, NL
performed by Acid Police Noise Ensemble, Hollas Longton and Maya Felixbrodt
audio file

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Guitar Semiotics (2009)

music for guitar

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 file

Presentations

February 2009 - KC Lab, Korzo5Hoog, Den Haag, UK
performed by Robert Blatt

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There Is No Proof, Only Evidence (2009)

music for mezzo-soprano, bass clarinet and video

Work about the failures of science and the tragedy of Paul Kammerer.

score

Presentations

April 2009 - Spring Festival, KC, Den Haag, NL
performed by Germaine Sijstermans and Marlys Teeuwen
audio file

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Fission (2009)

music for cello and live electronics

Piece in which the cello splits into copies of itself.

score

Presentations

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

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Gravity (2009)

music for piano and live electronics

Each note on the piano has a gravitational pull on a set of recorded string samples.

score

Presentations

April 2009 - Spring Festival, KonCon, Den Haag, NL
performed by Guus Janssen
audio file

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Mendeleev I: Rough Ritual (2008)

music for flute (doubling piccolo), bass clarinet, piano, violin, cello, mezzo-soprano and percussion

Work for singer and ensemble based on the periodic table.

score

Presentations

2008 - Huddersfield University, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Firebird Ensemble
audio file

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Critical Bandwidth (2008)

music for guitar quartet

Work for guitar quartet, using harmonics. Winner of the Carl von Ossietzky competition.

score | audio file
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Unfinished Business (2008)

music for amplified viola

Jazzy piece for amplified solo viola.

score

Presentations

February 2008 - Hudderfield University, Huddersfield, UK
performed by Bridget Carey
audio file