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Biography
Architect of the microtiming technique: iconic recordings are slowed down and transcribed in minute detail, then treated as a palimpsest, forming a parchment over which the composer manipulates, reorganises and interweaves original material to create innovative compositions of startling beauty and originality.
Performers include Claire Chase, Roomful of Teeth, Boston Lyric Opera, the Kreutzer and Chiara String Quartets, Sound Icon, members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Transient Canvas, Mark Knoop, Colin Davin, Marilyn Nonken, Constantine Finehouse, Wolfram Rieger, Ulrich Naudé, and Philip Howard, Serge Vuille, Christopher Graham, Clive Driskill-Smith, Christian Wilson, Carl Rosman, Clio Gould, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Neil Heyde, and Rohan de Saram. Vocal music sung widely by artists including Annette Dasch, Dashon Burton, Estelí Gomez, Joseph Kaiser, Annika Sophie Ritlewski, Frank Kelley, Kevin Burdette and Roomful of Teeth. Settings of Paul Griffiths, Christian Bök, Celan, Éluard, Empson, William Henry Fox Talbot, Heaney, Heine, Hölderlin, MacDiarmid, Melville, Morgenstern, Muresan, Pushkin, Rilke, Rückert, John Updike, William Carlos Williams, and Christa Wolf. Upcoming recordings include Another Woman of Another Kind by Claire Chase and Roomful of Teeth, setting text by Paul Griffiths.
Compositions performed at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, the Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, The Kitchen, Weill Recital Hall, Boston's The Institute for Contemporary Art, Calderwood Pavilion, Sanders Theatre and Jordan Hall, and in London at the Royal Festival Hall, Duke's Hall, The Forge, The Arcola Theatre, Wilton's Music Hall, Pushkin House, and King's Place. Commissions from Konzerthaus Dortmund, Staatstheater Kassel, the President of Harvard University, Sound Icon, and Boston Lyric Opera.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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