Christine Dysers' (@cdysers.bsky.social) wonderful essay "Weird Times, Uncanny Aesthetics" is now online in Positionen—part of my guest edition 147. More texts to follow soon! www.positionen.berlin/post/weird-t...

Wrote a profile of the brilliant Maddie Ashman for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social—digging deep into the microtonal moment. van-magazine.com/mag/maddie-a...

A Different Angle on the World

In a brown tracksuit top and wired headphones, with ponytails split in her signature style, Maddie Ashman looked stylistically out of joint around the corporate suits rushing to grab lunch around King...

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Interviewed soprano Mimi Doulton in 31-degree heat about Brexit, European identity and the concert she's built in response, part of Spitalfields Music Festival 2026. #heatwavehottakes maratology.substack.com/p/no-man-is-...

No Man Is an Island—A Decade On? Interview with Mimi Doulton

‘My temperature monitor reads 31.2 degrees.’

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Never could I imagine just how joyful and honoured, a bit stressed but mostly energised, I would feel to be guest editing Positionen 147 — a wonderful issue that is out now. Fasten your seatbelts. It's a chunky one!

It was a pleasure to interview @juergfrey.bsky.social about the gobsmackingly beautiful 'Clarinet Quintet', out now on @anothertimbre.bsky.social. Read the interview and get your hands on the album. London premiere on 29 May at @musicwedliketohear.bsky.social. www.anothertimbre.com/products/jur...

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Clarinet Quintet   (2023/2025)    54:10 Apartment House Heather Roche  clarinet      Mira Benjamin & Chihiro Ono, violinsBridget Carey, viola    Anton Lukoszevieze, cello Interview with Jürg Frey ...

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Very chuffed that @eurozine.bsky.social reached out to reprint my article 'The British School of Emotionalism and Metamodernism' on their website. It's now in English and free to read. Give it a try!

Eurozine@eurozine.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Both emotional and uncanny, sincere yet ironic – contemporary British-based composers are pioneering a new aesthetic: musical metamodernism. By @maratingeldeev.bsky.social via Positionen www.eurozine.com/the-british-...

Feeling both stimulated and relaxed after a magnificent few days in Bergen for the Borealis festival. It was a joy to be part of the delegates programme. A longer reflection will be out in the upcoming May issue of POSITIONEN—watch this space. Photo 2 by Miriam Levi.

What could £10 do to promote a gig ten years ago—and what does it take now? Ahead of @840series.bsky.social's Saturday concert with the NLCC, I spoke to Alex Nikiporenko about 840's history and how the promotion game has changed. maratology.substack.com/p/the-return...

The Return of 840: A Conversation with Alex Nikiporenko

In the early 2010s, the coolest thing a music graduate with an interest in all things experimental could do was to set up a small, independent concert series.

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Now available online. I've really enjoyed chatting with Maia, and I hope you enjoy reading what she's got to say! www.positionen.berlin/post/maia-ur...

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I enjoyed my conversation with sound artist Maia Urstad immensely after discovering her work at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse earlier this year. German readers can find our conversation in POSITIONEN issue 145. English readers will have to wait a few months before it appears online

My final foray into the metamodern syndrome comes in POSITIONEN 146, where I talk about the 'British School of Emotionalism and Metamodernism' (BSEM). Available now in German via POSITIONEN 146. The English version will be published online in a few months.

Happy 100, Morton Feldman! Little music reaches my soul as deeply as yours: austere, devoted, flickering endlessly on the horizon, like ever-elusive hope itself without which one is doomed.

Fun times at my first-ever @hcmfuk.bsky.social 2025. My piece for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social is out now, with pretty mind-boggling insights from Graham McKenzie and a few unvarnished concert takes. This one's for lovers of numbers and sceptics of the UK’s arts funding. van-magazine.com/mag/huddersf...

An Explosive Legacy

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival—or HCMF for short—is in full swing, celebrating its 48th edition with performances, workshops, installations and more, all against the backdrop of mounting eco...

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I enjoyed my conversation with sound artist Maia Urstad immensely after discovering her work at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse earlier this year. German readers can find our conversation in POSITIONEN issue 145. English readers will have to wait a few months before it appears online

An essay from what I now call my prime metamodern phase — on Francesca Fargion’s music, its oscillations, naivety, Romanticism, parental relationships and the evanescent, banal everyday. Have a read! maratology.substack.com/p/happy-sad-...

Happy, Sad and Everything In Between

The Metamodern Songs of Francesca Fargion

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"Garland showed exactly what the UK new music scene could achieve if funding matched ambition." My review of Oliver Leith's Garland is out via @bachtrack.com. bachtrack.com/review-leith...

My Darmstadt 25 review is in @vanmusicmag.bsky.social. 'Situations' are audience agency, censorship, David Tudor, distracted listening, Hannes Seidl, healing sounds, hybrid formats, immediacy, instagrammable art, Maryanne Amacher, neoliberalism, spatial arrangements van-magazine.com/mag/darmstad...

Situations for Distracted Listening

Every time cultural organizers huddle to pick a festival theme, their brainstorming heat surely counts as a modest contribution to global warming. In today’s attention economy—where information is ove...

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Marat Ingeldeev reports from Musik Installationen Nürnberg, where he eats a very good shawarma, gets pedalled around a lake in a hot pink flamingo pedalo by two retirees, and ponders nonlinearity — and much more at @vanmusicmag.bsky.social van-magazine.com/mag/musik-in...

The Dissolving of the Line

Marat Ingeldeev reviews Musik Installationen Nürnberg 2025.

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With Another Timbre's new CDs imminent, I invite you to read my interview with Bryn Harrison. We discussed 'Towards a slowing of the past', disorientation in music, immersive listening and the most important lesson he learnt from pianist @philipthomas.bsky.social. anothertimbre.com/harrisontowa...