Event archive

Seeking/Revealing. Katalin Koltai (open-frets guitar + electronics), Guildhall, London.

there is no gap between bird and song. Marco Fusi (prepared & restrung viola d'amore), HEMu, Lausanne, Switzerland.

The field of the future is reticulated through and by the present. Heather Roche (bass clarinet), Dominic Lash (double bass). Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg.

Repetition weaves difference weaves repetition (and so on). Lucy Havelock (saxophone). Goldsmiths, London.

we are environments for each other [trio]. Zubin Kanga (electromagnetic resonator and piano strings) and Mira Benjamin (electric violin). City St Georges, London.

a world in itself. Written for Quiet Music Ensemble and premiered at New Music Dublin 2025.

Improvisation duo set with Luigi Marino. Huddersfield, St Paul's Hall.

Seeking/Revealing. Katalin Koltai (open-frets guitar + electronics), University of Leeds.

Public lecture "Rethinking the clarinet as an animal". Watch the recording here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed0098ucNRY

temporary resistance, reflected by itself in the turbulence. Duo album with Anthony J. Stillabower on the 'leaf /// wave sound' label

an environmental mode of listening for Nick Roth. Unit 44 (Kirkos), Dublin.

like skipping stones on a lake was included as part of the material for Larry Goves new Coming up for Air concerto for Kathryn Williams' 'coming up for air' performed as part of Rainy Days Festival in Luxembourg.

like skipping stones on a lake for Kathryn Williams' 'coming up for air' project. Hashtag Lab, Warsaw.

we are environments for each other [trio] for Zubin Kanga and Mira Benjamin. Music We'd Like to Hear, st mary at hill (church), lovat lane, london ec3r 8ee

I was interviewed by Benjamin Tassie for his Future Classical show on Resonance FM. See here for the recording.

CD LAUNCH for 'we are environments for each other' on HCR. See here to pre-save or order the album - https://nmcrecs.lnk.to/SMwaefeo

Individuation Study #1: 'what ripples but does not break the surface' for magnetic resonator piano, played by Xenia Pestova-Bennett. University of Leeds concert series.

Surfaces of Emergence for 6 feedback guitars, played by students of Goldsmiths (University of London)

we are environments for each other (Entangled Trio), played by Mira Benjamin and Zubin Kanga, Royal Holloway University London.

The Dirac Sea: Folds in continuous fields, requested by Ilan volkov for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Tectonics Festival.

Fringing for solo clarinet, played by Heather Roche as part of The Garden of Forking Paths project. Sonic Lab, SARC, Queens University Belfast, 13:10 - 14:00. There's also a seminar the day before, on the 22nd, 1pm in same venue, see here.

The endless mobility of listening for violin and live electonics, played by Mira Benjamin. Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds (details). Livestream recording.

Piano Feedback improvisation for piano and feedback, played by Kate Ledger. Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds (details). Livestream recording.

Natura Naturans II for solo clarinet and chamber ensemble (2 vln), 2vla, 2vc), requested by Apartment House: this is an arrangement of the Natura Naturans clarinet concerto for smaller forces, a Garden of Forking Paths piece. Wigmore Hall, London.

Strata for solo clarinet with altered barrel, requested by Carlos Cordeiro: a Garden of Forking Paths piece. Freiburg, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (lecture 17:00-18:00, concert 18:30-19:30).

an instrument is polarised inside itself for solo basset clarinet, played by Jonathan Sage as part of The Garden of Forking Paths project. Late Music Festival, St Saviourgate, York, 1pm.

Publication / talkMcLaughlin, Scott, Kapsali, Maria (2022), '[interview] on Moving(-)Listening with Sonic Feedback' in Americas: A Hemispheric Music Journal 31:1

Publication / talkMcLaughlin, Scott (2022), 'On Material Indeterminacy' in Contemporary Music Review

Publication / talkMcLaughlin, Scott (2022), 'The Material Clarinet' in Rethinking the Musical Instrument, ed. by Mine Doğantan-Dack, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars)

Publication / talkMcLaughlin, Scott (2022), Feedback and Materiality on the Spatial and Energetic Planes, ECHO.

Publication / talkIddon, Martin, McLaughlin, Scott (2022), Teaching Composition in a Flipped Classroom, Tempo.

Fringing for solo clarinet, played by Heather Roche as part of The Garden of Forking Paths project. Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, St Paul's Hall, 12pm.

In the unknown there is already a script for transcendence for prepared-piano and magnetic resonators, played by Zubin Kanga at the Music Current, 8pm Project Arts Centre, Dublin [rescheduled COVID gig from 2020]

Strata for solo clarinet with altered barrel, requested by Carlos Cordeiro: a Garden of Forking Paths piece. Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds. Performance from 51:03 in this video of the concert.

Publication / talk'Composing Technique, Performing Technique'. Peer-reviewed article with Zubin Kanga and Mira Benjamin in JAR (Journal of Artistic Research)

Natura Naturans concerto for clarinet and prepared string orchestra, requested by Ilan volkov for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Tectonics Festival. played by Heather Roche as part of The Garden of Forking Paths project.

'Vibrant Practices' symposium - various solo clarinet pieces (concert video here) played by Heather Roche as part of The Garden of Forking Paths project.

Venting Game Duet clarinet duet for Laurel Saunders and Grace White (RNCM) as part of The Garden of Forking Paths project.

Publication / talkMcLaughlin, Scott (2021), 'The Impossibility of Material Foundations' in Sound Work: Composition as Critical Technical Practice, ed. by Jonathan Impett, (Ghent: Leuven University Press)

October Nocturns tape piece for Land Lines project.

Rescheduled due to COVID new work for orchestra, Tectonics 2020

Cancelled due to COVID Abrash, Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, ISCM New Zealand

Cancelled due to COVID In the unknown there is already a script for transcendence for prepared-piano and magnetic resonators, played by Zubin Kanga at the Music Current, 8pm Project Arts Centre, Dublin

The whole is encountered by going further into the parts for prepared double bass, Christopher Williams, German Center for Venetian Studies, Venice.

The Endless Mobility of Listening, Mira Benjamin at Iklectik London

Surfaces of Emergence for 6 feedback guitars, played by students of Goldsmiths (University of London)

like stones skipping on a lake, solo flute, included on a new CD by Kathryn Williams as part of her 'Coming up for Air' project. Released on Huddersfield Contemporary Records

Contingent Harmony for Explore Ensemble (fl, cl, pno, vc, vla, vn) with preparations and resonator. Uni of Leeds, Concert Series

Contingent Harmony for Explore Ensemble (fl, cl, pno, vc, vla, vn) with preparations and resonator. Oxford

Der Greise Kopf for Metapraxis Ensemble with phone playback. Cafe Oto

Anarchiving Resonance, performance and open workshop of new work developed with Jessica Aszodi. Uni of Leeds, Great Hall

Der Greise Kopf for Metapraxis Ensemble with phone playback.

In the unknown there is already a script for transcendence for prepared-piano and magnetic resonators, played by Zubin Kanga at the University of Leeds International Concert Series, Clothworkers Concert hall, Uni. of Leeds.

In the unknown there is already a script for transcendence for prepared-piano and magnetic resonators, played by Zubin Kanga at the Royal Holloway University

In the unknown there is already a script for transcendence for prepared-piano and magnetic resonators, played by Zubin Kanga at the Free Range in Canturbury.

In the unknown there is already a script for transcendence for prepared-piano and magnetic resonators, played by Zubin Kanga at Transistor Festival, Mälmo

Sonic Bodies interactive installation (movement sonification) as part of Being Human Festival at the Leeds Art Gallery

In the unknown there is already a script for transcendence for prepared-piano and magnetic resonators, played by Zubin Kanga at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Phipps Hall, Uni. of Huddersfield.

Bee Music (draft 1) for tape will be presented at Rothamsted Research 'Festival of Ideas', Harpenden. Video

Publication / talk"Composing for contingent materiality in performance", paper given at HARP2018 conference (Hub for Artistic Research) at the Royal Northern College of Music

Perisonic (full version) has been selected for installation at Elektro Arts Festival, Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca.

Repetitions and variations transform one another for LSTwo ensemble will be performed at CCCH, Leeds. Follow the composition of the piece at my new blog here Video

Publication / talk"Notating Materiality", video-paper given at the Material Cultures of Music Notation conference in Utrecht.

Perisonic will be performed in full at Schwankhalle, Bremen.

bifurcations in continuous systems performed by Sebastian Berweck (kbd) at SinusTon, in Magdeburg, Germany, 9pm

Mira Benjamin performs The Endless Mobility of Listening for violin and live electronics in Oslo

Publication / talk"Material Indeterminacy and De-centred Practice", guest lecture given at SoMA, Bath Spa University.

Publication / talk"Material Indeterminacy", paper given at ISACS2017 conference, ZKM.

Cartographies of Sheet Metal for multiple bowed cymbal players. Performed by Scott McLaughlin and Joe Whelan at Performing Indeterminacy conference in Leeds.

The Careful Plaiting of Weak Ties for prepared string quartet. Performed by Manon Quartet at 840 concert series London

Threads of the Social performed by LSTwo Strings (string ensemble) and Mira Benjamin at Leeds International Concert Series in Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds, 19.30pm.

Perisonics at Music Current 2017 in Smock Alley, Dublin

I'll be in Berlin taking part in Forecast Platform

M. Grisey, his Galliard (string orchestra, 2005), Bifurcations (clarinet quartet, 2007), and Blues for Horatiu (piano, 2016) at Minzu University, Beijing.

Publication / talkMcLaughlin, Scott (2017), '"No sounds but in things": Composing from Materiality', AIC Journal.

Reciprocal Structures performed by Scott McLaughlin (prepared cello) at Sounds Between Festival in Guildford, 5.30pm.

bifurcations in continuous systems performed by Michael Quinn (kbd) at Smock Alley in Dublin, 8pm.

Reciprocal Structures performed by Mira Benjamin (vln), Dom Lash (bass), and Scott McLaughlin (feedback guitar) at Hundred Years Gallery in London, 4pm.

Publication / talk"Materiality Topologies and Critical Technical Practice", paper given at Orpheus Institute (Ghent, Belgium) at the Composition as Critical Technical Practice Symposium.

Snowflake performed by Peyee Chen (sop) at Alba New Music in Edinburgh, 7:30pm. Tickets £8 (£6 concessions)

Publication / talk"Materiality, Topology, Indeterminacy", composition seminar given at University of York.

multistable objects assembled around a common point performed by Duo Hevans (Eleri Ann Evans & Henri Bok) at 'Doctors in Performance' conference, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin.

the wonderful Mira Benjamin takes my new concert-length piece for violin and live electronics, The Endless Mobility of Listening, on tour to Canada (BC) and UK.

• Canada: 23/06 ArtSpring Centre, Salt spring Island; 26/06 Open Space, Victoria; 27/06 Music on Main, Vancouver
• UK: 04/08 Coffee Kabin, Huddersfield; 05/08 CAB Atrium Uni of Huddersfield; 07/08 Union Chapel (ticket link), London; [TBC] Cafe Oto, London
• Norway:[TBC] Nu Nord Festival, Cafetheatret, Oslo

I'm very pleased to have been selected to participate in Composer Lab. My first orchestra piece will performed by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin on May 16th.

Snowflake performed by Juliet Fraser at: 5 May BARBOUR ROOM, SAGE GATESHEAD; 14 May HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD; 18 May UNION CHAPEL BAR, LONDON; 18 June PENINSULAR ARTS, PLYMOUTH UNI.

'The world according to Bob', a celebration of the work of Bob Gilmore, a good friend who is greatly missed. Blues for Horatiu for solo piano performed by Reinier van Houdt at Cafe Oto on weds evening in London. And another performance of Untitled (for Bob) performed by Trio Scordatura on 7pm on Tuesday at City University.

Publication / talk"Material Agency and Indeterminacy as Musical Structure", a public lecture given at University of Wolverhampton, video here.

Untitled (for Bob) performed by Trio Scordatura at muziekgebouw (Amsterdam) as part of 'Nicola Vicentino, a second life' at MicroFest Amsterdam 2015.

Reciprocal Structures performed by Dominic Lash at hcmf// shorts. Video Research

Reciprocal Structures performed by Dominic Lash at Circus London as part of collaborator Shelley James' exhibition. Research

in Wiltshire, Snowflake performed by Juliet Fraser at Corsham, Upavon, and Minety.

London, Cafe Oto, 'wax-on, wax-off'. (related to bifurcations in a continuous system). Requested by Tom Mudd for his Control exhibition.

Leeds, objects exceed our access to them for (euph, cl, fl, sax, amplified cymbals). LS2 Ensemble, Clothworkers' Centenery Concert Hall, University of Leeds. Video Research

Huddersfield and Brunel: a string vibrates in two directions. Diego Castro (solo guitar – 5’),

Publication / talk"intra-agencies", CeReNeM Journal, issue 4.

Publication / talk"If a tree falls in an empty forest…: Problematization of liveness in mixed-music performance", Journal of Music Technology and Education, 5/1, Summer 2012.

Publication / talk"Imperfect balance: Musical composition by exciting periodic and near-chaotic regimes in coupled metal cymbals", 5th Chaos Simulation and Modeling Conference, Athens.

Publication / talk"Issues in Application of Chaos in Acoustic Composition", 5th Chaos Simulation and Modeling Conference, Athens.

Publication / talk"There are Neither Wholes nor Parts: Issues of notation and Performance with Multiphonics" joint paper with Iain Harrison, SPEEC, Uni. Of Oxford.

Publication / talk"Framing, Filtering: Sites of Indeterminacy in the Text Scores of Manfred Werder", "Word Event" (text-score conference), Bath Spa University.

Publication / talk"Hysteresis and Recursion in my Recent Music", Music and Minimalism Conference, University of Leuven.

Publication / talkWhitewater on Eric Honour's, Phantasm: Music for Saxophone and Computer, 2011 Ravello Records.

Publication / talk"Dynamic Systems and Analogy in Experimental Music", Chaos Simulation and Modeling Conference, Technical University of Crete. Also to be published in proceedings book in 2012.

Publication / talk"Schema for Undermining Memory in Experimental Music", Time's Excesses Conference, University of Caen, France.

Publication / talk"Problematisation of Live-ness in Mixed Music Performance", FiMPAC, Leeds College of Music.

Publication / talk"SpectralConway: Cellular Automata off the Grid", Earzoom, Ljubljana.

Publication / talk"Dissolution: a Study in Collaboration", with S. Berweck, RMA Study Day, University of Leeds.

Publication / talk"SpectralConway: Cellular Automata off the Grid", ICMC 2010, New York.

Publication / talk"What Remains: musical structure as a function of notation in experimental music.", Off The Staves Conference, Bangor (Wales).

Publication / talkBifurcations included on CD compilation, 'Contemporary Music from Ireland: Volume 7'. Published by Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin.