Adam Stansbie

Fractions has been selected for NoiseFloor 2012.

NoiseFloor - at Staffordshire University - is taking place from 1st - 4th May 2012. All of the concerts are free and details may be found here:

http://www.benramsay.co.uk/noisefloor/concert_programme_2.html

Fractions will be performed at the International Festival for Innovations in Production and Composition (IFIMPaC) on Friday 27th April 2012. The festival looks great - there are some interesting speakers and lots of excellent composers - please see the following link for more details:

http://postgraduate.lcm.ac.uk/leeds-international-festival-innovations-music-production-and-composition

I'm very pleased to announce that Escapade has been selected to represent the UK at the ISCM World Music Days 2012.

In November last year, a shortlist of 6 composers, selected by the British Panel, was presented to the ISCM - the ISCM then selected two works from the shortlist - Escapade, by me, and Sringara Chaconne by Jonathan Harvey.

It's a great honour to have been selected alongside Harvey - one of my favourite composers - and I look forward to a trip to Belgium later on this year!

Escapade has been selected for Open Online 2 by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art - an independent arts organisation based in Northamptonshire. Open Online 2 includes works by 9 different sound artists - more details may be found here:

http://www.fermynwoods.co.uk/category/news/

Last weekend, I gave a talk (or two) at the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam (http://www.ahk.nl/en/conservatorium/) about my music. It was great to meet such interesting and enthusiastic students and I hope to return at some point in the future.

I am very excited that Escapade has been included in the British Panel Selection for the ISCM World Music Days 2012. Since being selected by the panel, Escapade has been send to the ISCM international jury, along with the following pieces:

Thomas Ades – Three Mazurkas
R.D. Bentall - Cyan
Louise Harris – Fuzee
Jonathan Harvey - Sringara Chaconne
Colin Matthews – Turning Point
Adam Stansbie – Escapade

For more information, see here: http://www.soundandmusic.org/artist-area/opportunities/2011/iscm-world-music-days-2012-flanders-british-section-call

Fractions, my new piece, has just been published by Elektramusic; you can buy a copy of the CD here: http://www.elektramusic.com/music.html where you also find information about the various other featured composers:

I recently performed Escapade at INTIME2011 - a symposium at Coventry University that was subtitled: Interrogations into Music Experimentation. I heard some interesting talks on experimental music and an eclectic concert.

I recently attended the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) - I heard some excellent performances and met some great composers. I am very proud to say that Escapade was included on the conference DVD as one of the "top rated works"! The DVD includes the following notes:

"On this DVD you will find a selection of some of the top-rated works that were submitted for this year's conference. Each work programmed in the 2011 ICMC was selected after being reviewed by three members of a 193-strong judging panel. The 11 works included on this DVD were some of the most highly rated of our 854 music submissions."

Other composers on the DVD included Yu-Chung Tseng, Horacio Vaggione and John Young.  

I've just uploaded excerpts of two new pieces... These are "AVG" - a piece composed (very quickly) for Annette Vande Gorne's birthday and "Fractions" - a new work that was started at the Leeds College of Music and completed at EMS in Sweden. Fractions is dedicated to Dale Jonathan Perkins.

I hope that you enjoy listening to these two excerpts - please get in touch if you have any comments about either of these pieces... 

Escapade has been selected for Festival Futura in Crest, Drome on August 28th. The festival looks great - I wish that I was able to attend. You can find more details here: http://www.festivalfutura.fr/

I've recently returned from the Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm where I was a guest composer (http://www.elektronmusikstudion.se/). EMS is a wonderful institution, founded in 1964; they've hosted many excellent composers over the years and I was very happy to be able to work in their studios. Here's a photo of me looking tired and miserable after a long compositional slog - the piece is just about done and I'll post here in a few days.

Pollen, a film by Vishal Shah (music by me), has been selected for performance at The Sounding Images screening by RedCat in LA. The screening will take place some time in Nov 2011.

Escapade is being played in Barcelona on June 8th. For more information, see: http://iua.upf.edu/?q=node/307

Here is the programme:

Tomorrow night sees the 2nd UK Electric concert featuring composers living (and sometimes working) in the UK - it is taking place at University of California San Diego and will be diffused by Rick Snow.

Seek Assistance - a film by Vishal Shah (music by me) - is being performed tomorrow night at Stanford University. An Evening of Visual Music with Dennis Miller contains music/film from Miller's Visual Music Special Collection.

See here for more details: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/evening-of-visual-music-with-dennis-miller-1 

I am pleased to announce that Escapade has been selected for the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2011 (www.icmc2011.org.uk). Escapade will be performed in one of the various concerts - I will post the full details when the concert programme is announced...

I was recently guest composer at the Leeds College of Music (www.lcm.ac.uk). The college (kindly) provided me (as a member of LCM alumni) with access to their multi-channel studio and I started working on a new piece using very small fragments of sound - a style that I began to explore whilst composing Escapade. I will aim to finish the piece while I at EMS in Stockholm next month.

Pollen - a film by Vishal Shah (music by Adam Stansbie) - was recently performed at Gare du Nord - Bahnhof fur Neue Musik in Basel, Switzerland. The concert was organised by Paul Clouvel of Elektramusik (www.elektramusic.com) following an invitation by the Electronic Music Studio of the Music Academy in Basel.

Further details can be found here: http://www.degem.de/news/basel-concert-elektramusic-basel-gare-du-nord.html

I was recently invited to Edge Hill to deliver a guest lecture and workshop on sound diffusion. I had the pleasure of working with Edge Hill's Music and Sound students who were forced to grapple with the art of diffusion after a relatively short introduction; the students prepared and presented a number of short electroacoustic pieces and we put on a (mini) concert in the late afternoon. More information can be found here: http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2011/03/first-diffusion-concert-takes-place-at-edge-hill-university

Escapade was recently performed at n.one9. The concert featured music by Pete Stollery from Aberdeen (who played two excellent pieces and gave an interesting pre-concert talk), Ewan Stefani and Dale Perkins - the concert curator. As with previous years, Dale managed to attract a large audience that clearly enjoyed the music and the event. I'm looking forward to n.one10 - the 10th year of electroacoustic concerts at the college.

Escapade was selected as a finalist in the Citta di Udine International Composers Competition in the summer of 2010. It was subsequently selected for publication on the Contemporanea 2010 CD. The CD has just been published/released. You can see the album cover below, find more details here: http://www.taukay.it/en/cd/cd136.html and buy a copy here: http://www.taukay.it/en/cd/cd.html

I'm pleased to announce that my paper - Sounds, Agents, Works and Listeners: A Model of Computer Music Performance - has just been published in Journal of Music, Technology and Education. You can find more information here: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=10414/

My recent paper "Through Thick and Thin: The Ontology of Tape Music" has been published by the Journal of Music and Meaning (http://www.musicandmeaning.net/)... here is the abstract:

The ontology of music is a lively and much debated branch of metaphysical philosophy. Most of the available literature focuses upon works of the Western classical tradition, however; as a result, the various challenges posed by tape compositions are either marginalised or ignored. Coupled with this is the familiar claim by some musicologists and philosophers that such works cannot be described as being music; one such philosopher, Linda Ferguson, claimed that tape compositions are ontologically distinct from scored musical works and, as a result, are “in search of their metaphysics” (Ferguson 1983). This paper will address such claims through an investigation of the ontology of tape music. It will be argued that such works share their metaphysical status with scored compositions and that the various differences can be ascribed to the “extent, depth, and saturation of their work-determinative properties” (Davies 2004: 26-27). Ultimately, it will be noted that there are some significant differences between these two art forms. Tape music is not “in search of its metaphysics”, however; it is merely lacking an accurate philosophical assessment.