Works

2025

• The field of the future is reticulated through and by the present

  (bass clarinet and double bass - 10mins)

  For Dominic Lash and Heather Roche for the Garden of Forking Paths project. Requested for Rainy Days Festival 2025.

• Repetition weaves difference weaves repetition (and so on)

  (saxophone - 10mins)

  For Lucy Havelock, and part of the Garden of Forking Paths project.

  Video

• 

  There is no gap between bird and song

  (prepared viola - 10–30mins)

  For Marco Fusi

• Seeking/Revealing

  ('open-frets' guitar [moveable capo-per-string system] and electronics, 10mins)

  For Katalin Koltai

  Score Video

2024

• 

  temporary resistance, reflected by itself in the turbulence

  Duo album with Anthony J. Stillabower on the 'leaf /// wave sound' label (feedback duo, using snare drum, frame drum, and cymbal, 10mins)

• an environmental mode of awareness

  (feedback saxophone and feedback installation, 10mins)

  Requested by Nick Roth

  Video

• a world in itself

  (prepared elec. guitar, prepared cello, prepared bass, clarinet, trombone, 10–20mins)

  For Quiet Music Ensemble

  Score Audio

2023

• Individuation Study #1: 'what ripples but does not break the surface'

  (magnetic resonator piano - 10 mins)

  Requested by Xenia Pestova-Bennett

• Various feedback pieces

  as part of a big project on feedback and movement, including works for piano, halldorophone, violin, drum, clarinet, and installation

  Video playlist Research

2022

• 

  we are environments for each other [trio]

  (pno, vln, and transducer feedback system - c.30 mins)

  Requested by Zubin Kanga & Mira Benjamin. See here for Mira's research video essay three phenomenotechnical illuminations on performing this work. Available on the CD We are environments for each other.

  Video Video Research

• Natura Naturans II

  (solo clarinet [cl] + 2 vln, 2 vla, 2 vc - 15 mins)

  Requested by Apartment House as an arrangement of the string orchestra version for chamber group

  Score Audio

• an instrument is polarised inside itself

  (solo basset clarinet [cl] - 5 mins)

  Requested by Jonathan Sage for York Late Music Festival, part of the Garden of Forking Paths project.

2021

• Natura Naturans

  (solo clarinet [cl] + prepared string orchestra - 15 mins)

  Requested by Tectonics Glasgow Festival and Heather Roche for the Garden of Forking Paths project.

  Score Audio

• The Garden of Forking Paths project

  various pieces for clarinet solo and clarinet duets [cl]. Including:

  • Strata, and see here for the Strata Player with multiple recordings
  • Fringing
  • Maquette for Natura Naturans
  • ...and various studies

2020

• October Nocturns

  (tape - 09:35 mins)

  Commissioned by the Land Lines project

  Audio

• The whole is encountered by going further into the parts

  (prepared contrabass [db] - 20mins+)

  Commissioned by Christopher Williams

  Score Video

• 

  a particular constellation of openings and closures

  (studio improvisation on MS20 synth - 60mins)

  Recording available at Bandcamp

• The Dirac Sea: Folds in Continuous Fields

  (orchestra - 20mins)

  Commissioned by Tectonics Festival for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov. Performance postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19

  Score Audio

2019

• Contingent Harmony

  (fl, cl, pno, vln, vla, vc - 10mins)

  Commissioned by Explore Ensemble

• 

  like skipping stones on water

  (solo fl - one breath)

  Commissioned by Kathryn Williams' 'Coming Up for Air' project

  Score

• Der Greise Kopf

  Ensemble (fl, cl, vn, vc, db, perc, mezzo) + phone playback (6mins)

  Commissioned by Metapraxis Ensemble

• TBC

  prepared double bass (10mins+)

  Commissioned by Christopher Williams. This piece subsequently became 'The whole is encountered by going further into the parts' (see 2020 above), which included substantial rethinking of the structural principles as well as the basic technique. So TBC is really a sketch for that piece, but I leave it here as a document of the performance.

  Video

2018

• 

  In the unknown there is already a script for transcendence

  prepared pno + magnetic resonators (10–20mins)

  Commissioned by pianist Zubin Kanga via Arts Council England. Available on the CD We are environments for each other.

  Video

• Repetitions and variations transform one other

  ensemble (3 fl, 2 cl, ten. sax, tpt, corn, euph, perc, pno, gtr, vc) (25mins)

  Requested by LSTwo ensemble, Leeds. Follow the composition of the piece at my new blog here

  Video

• Fragility

  2 cl and tape (15mins)

  Performed at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds 14/2/2018

2017

• The Careful Plaiting of Weak Ties

  string quartet (2 vln, vla, vc) (10mins)

  Written for Manon String Quartet and 840 Concert series. Performed at St James' Church Islington, London, 6/5/2017

  Score Audio

• Resonant Paths

  metal found-objects + live electronics (MAX), variable duration (10mins+)

  Written for Forecast Festival, Berlin, 10/4/2017

  Score Audio

• Threads of the Social

  variable bowed-string ensemble (vln, vla, vc, db), variable duration (10-20mins)

  Written for LSTwo Strings ensemble at University of Leeds, under the direction of Mira Benjamin. Performed at Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds, 29/4/2017

  Score Audio

• Perisonic

  8-chan/stereo Tape (10mins)

  Commissioned by Music Current 2017 as a multi-artist work where several composers create Dublin soundscapes with video artist Mihai Cucu, after Dublin artist Robert Parker's 18thC 'Panoramic paintings': see here for more. Performed at Smock Alley, Dublin, 28/4/2017, Bremen 14/1/2018

2016

• 

  The Endless Mobility of Listening

  vln and live electronics, variable duration (20-60mins)

  developed with violinist Mira Benjamin. Available on the CD We are environments for each other.

  Video Score

• Abrash

  symphony orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/perc/hrp/strings - 10')

  Written for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra as part of Composer Lab

  Audio Score

• Blues for Horatiu

  (solo pno - 5')

  written in memorium Bob Gilmore

  Score Audio

• Untitled for Bob

  (mezzo, vla, vln, bass cl, synth - 5mins)

  written in memorium Bob Gilmore for Trio Scordatura (based on Nicola Vicentino)

  Audio Score

2015

• Palmyra

  (solo cl - 6')

  co-composed with Mic Spencer, for Heather Roche

  Audio

• wax-on, wax-off

  electronic installation (single rotary knob)

  requested by Tom Mudd for his Control exhibition, performed in London, Cafe Oto 9/9/2015. The code here is a variation on that written by Dominique Thibault for my 2011 piece bifurcations in a continuous system.

• Objects exceed our access to them

  LSTwo Ensemble (euph, cl, fl, sax, amplified metal - 13')

  requested by LSTwo, performed in Leeds 1/5/2015

  Research Video

2014

• intra-actions

  (solo vc – 20’+)

  requested by Seth Woods, performed in California (Nov 2015)

  Score

• meshwork for three

  (bass. cl, ten. sax, microtonal organ)

  requested by Duo Hevans, performed in Amsterdam (4/5/14)

  Audio Score

• a string vibrates in two directions

  (solo gtr– 5’)

  requested by Diego Castro Magas, performed in Huddersfield and Brunel

  Score

2013

• 

  surfaces of emergence

  (3+ electric gtr – 40’)

  written for spatialised installation/performance at HCMF 2013. Guitar trio version available on the CD there are neither wholes nor parts on Ergodos Records.

  Video Audio Score

• histories have been replaced by maps

  (fl, ob, ob, cl, sax, tpt, vln, vla, vc, perc, el. gtr – 9’)

  performed by LSTwo as part of Leeds Contemporary Music Festival 2013

• a point on many lines

  (solo bass cl – 7’)

  requested by Henri Bok, performed in Dusseldorf and Catalonia, 2013.

  Score

2012

• 

  a metastable harmony

  (vln, vln, vla, vc – 15’)

  requested by Bozzini Quartet for Composers’ Kitchen and HCMF. Available on the CD there are neither wholes nor parts on Ergodos Records.

  Audio Score

• 

  Resonant Systems

  (perc/cymbals and live electronics, installation)

  Research Audio Score

• Snowflake

  (voice and live electronics – 12’)

  requested by Peyee Chen.

  Audio Score

• Phon 1 & 2

  (voice [at least four] - 5'+)

  Score

2011

• there are neither wholes nor parts 3

  (bass bl and tenor sax – 12’)

  requested by Duo Hevans

  Audio Score

• Bifurcations in Continuous Systems

  (midi kbd and live electronics – 13’)

  requested by Sebastian Berweck

  Video Score

• 

  there are neither wholes nor parts 2

  (solo cl OR sax – 7’+)

  requested by Jonathan Sage for clarinet or bassett horn. Available on the CD there are neither wholes nor parts on Ergodos Records.

• action at a distance

  (vox and live electronics [8ch] – 8’)

  requested by Peyee Chen for GemDays festival

• 

  At least two things

  (mezzo, vla, synth, live electronics – 6’)

  requested by Trio Scordatura. Available on the CD there are neither wholes nor parts on Ergodos Records.

2010

• 

  there are neither wholes nor parts

  (solo cl OR sax – 7’+)

  For Iain Harrison, requested by November Music, s-Hertogenbosch, Holland. Available on the CD there are neither wholes nor parts on Ergodos Records.

  Score

• a text without shadow (he wished for)

  (sop, pno, vln, vc – 6’)

• We do the same things, but I’m always different

  (sax x 2, live electronics – 40’)

  For Iain Harrison and Markus Wenninger, requested by Process Festival, Berlin.

• Vertices II

  (Gamelan Ensemble, cl – 10’)

  re-composition of Vertices (2009), for Leeds Gamelan Ensemble & Jonathan Sage.

  Audio Score

• Music in Two Dimensions no.6

  (small ensemble – 10’)

• Music in Two Dimensions no.5

  (3 players and live electronics – 10’)

• Shoals

  (10+ participants with laptops/smartphones/etc.)

2009

Note: pieces from here and older may well be lost or 'immature' but do contact me if you're interested.

• Music in Two Dimensions no.4

  (pno, cl – 8’)

  For Wake Up.

• Music in Two Dimensions no.3

  (8^th tone tpt , 96 tone conic bellophone – 11’)

  requested by Duo Contour.

• Music in Two Dimensions no.2

  (Organ, bsn – 7’)

  requested by FOCAM Ensemble.

• Music in Two Dimensions no.1

  (vln, vla, vc, pno – 6’)

  requested by Metapraxis Ensemble.

• Shadows

  (24-channel electronic installation)

  MiniWofS 09, University of Huddersfield

• Vertices

  (Gamelan Trio, cl – 8’)

  requested by Gong Agenda and Jonathan Sage.

• Clockwise Counter-Clockwise

  (toy pno – 30”)

  For Xenia Pestova. on her birthday

• Venn Feynmann Gestalt

  (8^th Tone Trumpet, ¼ Tone Trumpet, 8^th Tone Horn – 6’)

  requested by Mikroblech. Performed at UK Microfest III, UK. 07/03/09

2008

• Lorenz

  (Sax, strings, vibraphone – 10’+)

  requested by ICC Ensemble. Performed in Dublin and Galway, 04-05/09/08

• The Well-Tempered Prism

  (Cl, Pno – 5’)

  requested by 'Wake Up' (Kate Ledger/Heather Roche). Performed in York Late Music Festival 2008.

• 

  Marx

  (Viola d'Amore, Mezzo, Synth – 15’)

  requested by Trio Scordatura. Performed at UK Microfest III (07/03/09); Transit Festival 2008, Leuven; Amsterdam, Muziekcentrum de Badcuyp (16/12/2008)

2007

• Intra

  (vln + prepared classical gtr – 12’)

  requested by ICC for Ioana Petcu-Colan and David Flynn. Performed in Cluj, Romania (17/03/09); Dublin TCD chapel (01/12/07)

• Torsion

  (8th-tone tpt – 4’)

  requested by Stephen Altoft. Performed in Huddersfield, Manchester, York (02-07/11/07)

• Nano

  (solo fl OR cl OR ob OR bsn OR sax– 12’+)

  Performed by Heather Roche (clar.), Huddersfield (26/07/08); Nano² (version including live electronics) performed by Iain Harrison, Gemdays Festival, Huddersfield (31/01/09).

• 

  Bifurcations

  (cl x 4 – 8’)

  Performed by Dunleavy Clarinet Quartet, HCMF Shorts 2007, Huddersfield (22/11/07); SOMP Day, Huddersfield, (12/06/07)

• For Garrett Sholdice

  (ob, vln, pno – 6’)

  Performed by Black Cat Trio, SOMP Day, Huddersfield (12/06/07)

• 

  Whitewater

  (solo cl OR sax, + Max/MSP – 12’+)

  requested by Iain Harrison. Performed by Eric Honour (saxophone), University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (16/04/09); Kansas city (06/04/09); Franklin Pierce University NH (28/03/09); Brooklyn NY (26/03/09); Huddersfield (20/03/09); Perugia, Italy (19/03/09); Lucca, Italy (17/03/09); Vienna, Austria (14/03/09); Thessalonica, Greece (09/03/09); Heather Roche (clarinet) Bangor New Music Festival, Wales (28/02/08); Iain Harrison (saxophone), RMA Student Conf., University of Surrey (05/01/08); ECAL Conference, Lisbon (12/10/07); SOMP Day, Huddersfield (12/06/07); York Spring Festival (02/05/07); RNCM Manchester (29/03/07); Whitewater x 3 (30min installation for three moving players and 32 speaker array) performed by Iain Harrison, Heather Roche, Ann Evans at WofS, Uni. of Huddersfield, 16/06/08

  Audio

2006

• Five Bells for Elliott Carter

  (vln, vln, vla, vc – 8’)

  Performed by Sonar String Quartet, Ostrava Days Festival, Ostrava, Czech Rep. (29/08/07); FOCAM ensemble, Holy Trinity Church, Leeds (29/11/06)

• Distemper

  (any instrument of fixed pitch + Max/MSP – 12’)

  Performed by Cliona Doris (hrp), Printing House, Dublin, 16/11/06

• Dunes

  (Bass Cl, Vc, Pno, Perc – 14’)

  requested by SPELK. Performed at SOMP Day, Huddersfield (07/06/06)

• Inner Shadow

  (Bass Cl, Vln, Vc, Acc – 5’)

  requested by Concorde for the Samuel Beckett Centenery. Performed in Galway (29/07/06); Dublin (23/04/06)

• Primes

  (Vln + Max/MSP – 15’)

  requested by Amy Whitwam. Performed in Huddersfield (07/02/06)

• The Lady with the Hammer

  (2 Tbn, 2 Euph, 2 Tba, 2 pno – 12’)

  Performed by the New Music Ensemble of Huddersfield University (27/02/06)

2005

• Tracheids

  (Fl, Cl, Bass Gtr – 4’)

  Workshopped at RMA Student Conference, Leeds, Jan. ‘06

• If my Complaintes could Passiones Move

  (Sop Sax, Rec, Vln, Vla, Bass Viol, db – 4’)

  John Dowland arrangement performed by SOMP ensemble, Huddersfield (09/03/06, 11/12/05)

• Coffey 1 – 3

  (Tape, 2 soprano – 8’)

  Unperformed

• Prisma

  (Vln, Pno – 10’)

  Unperformed

• Moraine II

  (2 db – 8’)

  Performed by Simon Anderson and Chris Addington, Huddersfield (07/02/06)

• Mitochondria IIa

  (Fl, Cl, Vc, Pno, Perc – 5’)

  Performed by Firebird, Huddersfield (26/04/05)

• Mitochondria II

  (Cl, Vc, Pno – 4’)

  Performed by YCC Ensemble in the Goethe Institute, Dublin (21/05/05)

• M Grisey, his Galliard

  (6 Vln, 2 Vla, 2 Vc, db – 9’)

  Workshopped by Ostravska Banda, Ostrava Days, Czech Rep. (21/08/07); Performed by The Goldberg Ensemble, Huddersfield (15/02/05)

  Audio Score

2004

• Penumbra

  (Open scoring, min. 8 players – 8’)

  Written for COMA Yorkshire. Performed by Luxembourg Sinfonietta, ISCM World Music Days, Hong Kong (28/11/07); COMA Yorkshire, Huddersfield (12/06/05)

• After-images

  (Fl, Cl, Vla, Vc – 6’)

  Workshopped by MusiKFabrik at Sligo New Music Festival, Ireland (28/03/04)

2002

• At the still point of the turning world

  (guitar solo)

  A very old piece that isn't really representative any more, but I have a soft spot for it. Never played or recorded at the time. Diego Castro kindly recorded it in 2017.

  Audio Score

• The Veil Nebula

  (pno solo)

  A very old piece that isn't really representative any more, but I have a soft spot for it. It was played (wonderfully!) several times by Simon Mawhinney when it was originally written, but never recorded. I include it here because Kate Ledger kindly recorded it in 2011

  Audio Score