Past EVENTS

2017 - present

five exploded pastorales premiere

4 May 2024
Mikey Sluman, Oboe
Late Music, York, UK

transformation (for lucy) Premiere

22 February 2024
Lucy Havelock, Saxophone
Goldsmiths College, London, UK

bird-organ
Elastic time iii
Recordari

21 February 2024
Spirited Winds (Desmond Clarke, Jennifer Cohen, Carmen Troncoso)
York St. John University, York, UK

bird-organ

12 December 2023
Spirited Winds (Desmond Clarke, Jennifer Cohen, Carmen Troncoso)
University of York, UK

bird-organ Premiere

4 December 2023
Spirited Winds (Desmond Clarke, Jennifer Cohen, Carmen Troncoso)
Mount School, York, UK

tracing the line: The art of drawing machines and pen plotters published

November 2023
Featured artist
Vetro Editions

elastic time iii

10 October 2023
Spirited Winds (Desmond Clarke, Jennifer Cohen, Carmen Troncoso)
University of York, UK

a carillon for jt

22 July 2023
Kate Harrison-Ledger - Toy Piano
Huddersfield, UK

performance at Chapel FM

18 June 2023
Desmond Clarke - Oboe, Cor Anglais and Electronics
Barrington Brook - Recorders, Guitar and Electronics
Chapel FM Radio

Labó Bosa Residency and exhibition

1-10 June 2023
Bosa, Sardinia, Italy

norman rea retrospective event

7 June 2023
Invited Speaker
Norman Rea Gallery, York, UK

elastic time iv Premiere

12 May 2023
Olivia Jageurs, Harp
Online

tetrahedron PREMIERE

21 April 2023
Colin Frank - Electronics
Cultures of Sound, Huddersfield, UK

TRANSCENDENTAL STRAINS V PREMIERE

25 March 2023
Rosetta Collective
Rohm Theatre, Koyoto, Japan

five exploded pastorales broadcast premiere

28 February 2023
Mikey Sluman - Oboe
Left of Leeds, Chapel FM Radio

performance with arc project

25 February 2023
Premiere of Our Own Parade by Ralph Lewis
York, UK

knownunknown generative art event

26 January 2023
Invited Speaker
Online

NARCISSUS

20 January 2023
Kate Harrison-Ledger - Piano
York, UK

York Design week exhibition

17 October 2022
The Angel on the Green, York, UK

performance at good emotions

13 October 2022
Desmond Clarke - Oboe and Cor Anglais
Barrington Brook - Percussion
Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK

cache money exhibition

Installation and exhibition of visual art
10-28 October 2022
Norman Rea Gallery, York, UK

elastic time III premiere

3 September 2022
Anna Palko - Flute
Desmond Clarke - Oboe
Sapphire Littler - Clarinet
Online

performance with arc project

3 September 2022
Premieres of Disc Phase by Randall Krieger and Arborescent Symmetries by Wajdi Abou Diab
Online

performance with ish (ensemble)

22 June 2022
StreetLife York, UK

julia sketches broadcast

17 May 2022
Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone, Graham Dunning, NTS Radio

elastic time II premiere

14 June 2022
University of York Piano Ensemble
The University of York, UK

three postcard pieces premiere

14 May 2022
Gaia Blandina - Cello
Desmond Clarke - Oboe
Lucy Havelock - Saxophone
StreetLife York, UK

Recordari

18 June 2022
Carmen Troncoso - Recorders
Desmond Clarke - Electronics
Hebden Bridge, UK

flat landscape with clouds premiere

20 March 2022
David Cotter, Kevin Loh, Classical Guitars
21st Century Guitar Conference, Indiana, USA

Going off grid: notating non-denominational rhythms with video scores

3 February 2022
Conference Presentation
London College of Music, UK

red midi Premiere
Winter wonderland Premiere
___Flow___ Installation

18 December 2021
The Arc Project Festival
Online

Outside The Lines: Composing (With) Video Scores

30 October 2021
Conference Presentation
University of North Georgia, USA

plotting inequality exhibition

20-26 October 2021
Installation and exhibition of visual art, part of York Design Week 2021
York Explore Library and Archive, UK

bright waves premiere

29 June 2021
Lucy Havelock - Saxophones,
Alex Norman - Trumpets
Online

Three Spaces premiere

16 April 2021
Erika Mulkern - Contemporary Dancer
Online

Recursive Prelude premiere

27 October 2020
Archie Bonham - Piano
Online

strange beast premiere

22 September 2020
James Banner - Double Bass
Online

Video scores lecture

3 March 2020
The University of York, UK

overture; scene premiere

29 February 2020
A Very Small Consortium
The University of Wisconsin, USA

Luspra premiere

20 January 2020
Rebecca Burden - Cello
Desmond Clarke - Electronics
Spread, The Crescent, York, UK

 

Liszt Fields

21 November 2019
Jakob Fichert - Piano
1901 Arts Club, London, UK

 

meadowland premiere

9 October 2019
Mikey Sluman - Bass Oboe
John McDougal - Hecklephone
David Baker - Bassoon
Leeds College of Music, UK

oiseaux metamorphique

13 October 2019
Kathryn Bowman - Recorder
Tonbridge, UK

A carillon for j t premiere

18 September 2019
Kate Ledger - Toy Piano
AMOK, St Martin-cum-Gregory, York, UK

Summer on the Ice Planet premiere
transcendental strains iii(A) premiere

11th August 2019
Northern Contemporary Collective
Leeds, UK

insect-wood-growth
nucleation grooves

July 2019
Arditti Quartet / Cikada
Bilkent University, Ankara

Lara: A Piano at night premiere

0200 20 May 2019
An immersive AV nightscape
In collaboration with Lara Jones
Eiger Studios, Leeds, UK

Liszt Fields premiere

14 April 2019
Jakob Fichert - Piano
Besbrodes, Leeds, UK

Recordari

01 March 2019
Carmen Troncoso (recorders), Lynette Quek (electronics)
National Autonomous University of Mexico

 

Creative coding lab symposium | Electric Spring

23 February 2019
Outsourcing the Hard Bits: some thoughts on automation in composition and performance”
The University of Huddersfield, UK

Saturate premiere

06 February 2019
Desmond Clarke (oboe)
AMOK, York, UK

Gruppenspiel premiere

05 January 2019
Northern Contemporary Collective
Leeds, UK

___flow___ installation

15-18 October 2018
Installed at the Centre for Contemporary Arts as part of Sound Thought 2018
Glasgow, UK

recordari radio broadcast

8 August 2018
Broadcast on Beethoven FM, Chile

Narcissus premiere

12-15 July 2018
Three performances by the New Maker Ensemble
various venues, Madeira, Portugal

 

Manifeste 2018

18-30 June 2018
conducted ensemble workshop with Ensemble Intercontemporain/Marko Nikodijevic
IRCAM, Paris, France

 

recordari

2nd June 2018
Carmen Troncoso
Late Music Concerts, York, UK

 

closed, open, closed premiere

31st May 2018
University of York Piano Ensemble

 

conference presentation: Mediating Composition and Improvisation Using Live-Generated Video Scores

29th April 2018
Sound Agendas Conference, Centre for New Music at Sheffield, UK

 

___flow___ premiere

14th April 2018
AV Installation
3Sixty Auditorium, PHP Yorkshire, York, UK

 

MUSIC FOR MINIATURE LANDSCAPes radio broadcasts

8th February 2018 - Radio Cemat (Web)
21st January 2018 - Rai Radio 3 (Italy)
8th December 2017 - Radio Belgrade 3 (Serbia)

Broadcasts of the October 2017 Quartetto Apeiron Ascoli Piceno performance

 

MUSIC FOR MINIATURE LANDSCAPES

17th October 2017
Quartetto Apeiron
NUOVI SPAZI MUSICALI Festival, Ascoli Piceno, Italy

 

oboe - lunchtime concert

4th October 2017
York St. John University, UK

Featuring works by Melinda Maxwell, Morag Galloway and John Hails

 

tell one, forget one

10th & 11th August 2017
Leaky Boat Productions
Tete-a-Tete Opera Festival, London, UK

http://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/tell-one-forget-one/

 

RESIDENCY AT THE CLEARING

19th-23rd June 2017
Developing work with Bethan Vincent
Compton Verney Sculpture Park, Warwickshire, UK

 

Unbelonging PREMIERE

7:30pm, 3rd June 2017
Collaboration with Bethan Vincent
Desmond Clarke (double bass and electronics), Bethan Vincent (spoken word)
Stained Glass Centre, York, UK

 

QUATRE TABLEAUX VIVANTS PREMIERE

1pm, 2nd June 2017
CLADZ
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York, UK

 

MUSIC AND/AS PROCESS CONFERENCE

20th May 2017
Presentation of the work Partita Algoritmica at the Music and/as Process 5th Annual Conference
University of Wolverhampton, UK

 

HYPOGLOSSA PREMIERE

4pm, 29th April 2017
Elizabeth Hilliard (voice)
Music Current 2017, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS