Navigate by the sound of my voice Leading you astray With the characteristic trip of the tongue Or resonance in the mouth You will be wrong When you guess where I am from Voice, body, language, pla…

Navigate by the sound of my voice Leading you astray With the characteristic trip of the tongue Or resonance in the mouth You will be wrong When you guess where I am from Voice, body, language, place: these have long been the central preoccupations – basic materials, really – of Leo Chadburn’s work, from his early releases as his avant-pop alter-ego Simon Bookish (‘Portrait of the Artist as a Fountain’) to the stream of recent releases every year or two on his own Library of Nothing Records label: …

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It was lovely to attend last night the launch of Liza Lim's new disc for NMC records (and of Zoë Martlew's forthcoming debut, Album Z). I've reviewed String Creatures for an upcoming issue of Nutida musik in Sweden, so those who are really keen can read my initial thoughts on the album there. But last night I realised too that not only is this a collection of really great music (the magnificent title work for string quartet; solos for cello and bass, …

I was meant to be at the Southbank Centre on Sunday for the London Sinfonietta's 'deconstruction' and performance of Boulez's marvellous ...explosante-fixe ... On-stage conversations, leather seats and Boulezian orchestration at its most refined. Full luxury new music and all that. Unfortunately, a family football injury scuppered my afternoon and sent the rest of the day's plans out of whack. I made do instead with the…

I was meant to be at the Southbank Centre on Sunday for the London Sinfonietta's 'deconstruction' and performance of Boulez's marvellous ...explosante-fixe ... On-stage conversations, leather seats and Boulezian orchestration at its most refined. Full luxury new music and all that. Unfortunately, a family football injury scuppered my afternoon and sent the rest of the day's plans out of whack. I made do instead with the…