I'm leading this pretty cool Composing Ecology weekend at Hawkwood, Stroud in June - a few days of listening to nature and making music in the most beautiful of surroundings. Does this sound like your thing? In which case, come and join me! www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programm...
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“This is a crime against humanity… no longer just a human rights violation. It is truly anti-human behaviour.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed
Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape
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NEWS: I've been working on a new project called Composing Ecology, centred on a collection of mostly text scores called New Nature Pieces, for individuals and groups. Do check it out - you can download everything for free and use it. I'd be delighted if you'd take a look! composingecology.com
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A very excellent string quartet here by @sarahhennies.bsky.social, titled after the 'hidden' light of interior rooms of Shaker houses. Interview starts around 40 mins in, music from 44 mins. 10 days to listen before it goes...
New Music Show - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light - BBC Sounds
Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light for string quartet.
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James Weeks weatherworld quartets World premiere Nov 25 7:30pm Palace Green, Durham @durhammusicdept.bsky.social @jamesweeks.bsky.social
Today began with James Weeks' Blue Hours conjuring blues and wooze on the cusp of alpha and beta waves, welcoming in GMT with a fantastically poised performance from GBSR Duo at Sound Festival Aberdeen. And the spinning and waves continued at Fraserburgh lighthouse museum...
The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.
Very excited for this early-morning premiere with the incredible GBSR Duo in Aberdeen next month! sound-scotland.co.uk/event/james-...
James Weeks: Blue Hours - Sound Scotland
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"The impersonal gains profundity when it engages with the listeners to reflect upon themselves." Exaudi sing Jürg Frey and Apartment House play Gombert. Isn't that supposed to be the other way around? www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Weeks with and without voices: Frey, Gombert
Jürg Frey: Voices
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Some nice stuff on around the house this past week part VII Pure beauty ℅ @juergfrey.bsky.social @jamesweeks.bsky.social & Exaudi… neurecordsbcn.bandcamp.com/album/voices
Voices, by Jürg Frey
9 track album
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Good and profound review about VOICES, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble and James Weeks. The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, April 2025. Thank you Peter Margasak daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemp...
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, April 2025
Our guide to the month’s crucial contemporary classical releases.
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Always a good day when the albums arrive. Especially when they're as smart as this! Now for the pleasant task of sending them out to our many project supporters. If you want one, there will be plenty left... www.exaudi.org.uk/product/jurg...
Listening to Jürg Frey's 'VOICES', beautifully performed by the EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble. (I got HD 24/96 files from my pledge). I am so happy that this long-awaited album is finally coming out on NEU RECORDS. www.neurecords.com/voices/
Neu Records | Voices
Neu Records is an independent label devoted to recording contemporary music in surround and 3D formats.
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www.neurecords.com/voices/ Jürg Frey: Voices. EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, James Weeks NEU RECORDS. I am very pleased to present a new CD here. More than 10 years of inspiring cooperation with EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble and James Weeks has resulted in this wonderful CD.
EXAUDI's Jürg Frey album, VOICES, is out today on Neu Records. The music is entirely stunning and devastatingly beautiful! Listen now: neurecordsbcn.bandcamp.com/album/voices. Buy a copy direct from EXAUDI: www.exaudi.org.uk/albums/ (Please don't just go to Spotify etc...)
Voices, by Jürg Frey
9 track album
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GBSR Duo and EXAUDI will premiere Linda Catlin Smith’s ‘The Lighthouse’ at Wigmore Hall on Saturday! [EXAUDI photo credit: Jon Cartwright; GBSR photo credit: Dejan Mrdja] @wigmore-hall.org.uk whatsnew.composersedition.com/gbsr-exaudi-...
I'm running a Come-and-sing/play workshop in Elvet Methodist Church in Durham on Saturday 1st March (10am-12pm), called 'Meadow'. It should be really fun, for those wanting something a little different... pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
Thank you to all those who came out for both performances of Hello Halo @kingsplace.bsky.social. It’s the 1st time in my career that I felt like to actually achieved what I set out to do. This couldn’t have happened without the wonderful @Jamesweeks & EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble. Now for Liverpool today!
Loving this from @anothertimbre.bsky.social, beautiful, intelligent playing by @apartment-house.bsky.social (you can really hear the text in their lines) and fab new pieces by @jamesweeks.bsky.social. Nice. Very nice. anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/g-o-m-...
G O M B E R T, by Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks
14 track album
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Last summer I had the unexpected pleasure to be asked to make some arrangements of Gombert motets for Simon Reynell and Apartment House, and to write some interludes to go between them. Here is the result! Thanks to Simon for asking me! anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/g-o-m-...
G O M B E R T, by Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks
14 track album
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Coming next month to Pittsburgh: a multi-day festival of microtonal gems including @jamesweeks.bsky.social James Weeks' Primo Libro. Tickets: calendar.pitt.edu/event/jack-q...
JACK Quartet and Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble
This concert is the second event of the Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival hosted by Music on the Edge. This performance will feature JACK Quartet and Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble. The performance will featu...
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Out next week, out new Gombert album, with beautiful work by James Weeks youtu.be/JYMs7LyYUZo
James Weeks 'media vita iii' (2024), played by Apartment House
YouTube video by Anothertimbre
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