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Wolf Notes #8 is now available from Compost and Height. This printed issue brings together a collection of texts written by some of the most innovative composers working today, with each writing about one of their own compositions. The riso-print A5 edition is limited to 200 copies, and is available for \u00a35 plus postage.\u00a0UK \u2013 \u00a37\u00a0<\/a>(\u00a35 + \u00a32 p&p)\u00a0International \u2013 \u00a39<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(\u00a35 + \u00a34 p&p)<\/p>\n Also\u00a0available from:<\/p>\n The Wire Bookshop<\/a>,\u00a0Penultimate Press<\/a>,\u00a0OTOROKU<\/a>,\u00a0South London Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n Composers include: Ryoko Akama, Antoine Beuger, Olivia Block, Seth Cluett, Jane Dickson, Patrick Farmer, Bruno Guastalla, Julia Holter, Sarah Hughes, Jason Kahn, Caroline de Lannoy, Dominic Lash, Joseph Cla<\/strong>yton Mills, Tim Parkinson, Gino Robair, James Saunders, Mark So, Adam Sonderberg.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ryoko Akama<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a sound artist \/ composer who works across sound installation, performance and composition. Her aesthetics approach empty field \u2013 silence (time) and space, and pursue the quality of the minimal, abstract and cumulative in multidimensional sonic experience. She explores sound objects and electronics, and also employs texts in order to create scores. She is the co-founder of Reductive Journal and runs Melange Edition.<\/p>\n Antoine Beuger<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at Sweelinck Coservatorium in Amsterdam 1973-78.\u00a0 In 1990 he began composing after an interruption of about 10 years. Two years later he founded Edition Wandelweiser together with composer\/performer Burkhard Schlothauer.\u00a0Since 1994 he\u2019s been active with the conception and organisation of KLANGRAUM, a concert series at Kunstraum D\u00fcsseldorf. During the years 1995-2001 he was working together with visual artist Mauser as artistic director of \u201cWerkraum\u201d, Place for Interdisciplinary Artistic Events, Cologne.\u00a0 Since 1996 he\u2019s been artistic director of edition wandelweiser records and since 2004 managing director of Edition Wandelweiser gmbh.<\/p>\n Olivia Block<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>creates electroacoustic sound compositions for performance, recordings, installations, cinema,\u00a0orchestra and chamber music concerts. Her solo performances include partially improvised pieces for electronics and amplified objects, presented in a slow and deliberate gestural style. Block also performs original pieces for inside piano. Her compositions often combine field recordings, chamber instruments and electronic textures. In addition to her compositions for solo recordings and performances, Block creates multimedia works for sounds and video and writes scores for large ensemble, string quartet, and orchestra.<\/p>\n Seth Cluett<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>(b. Troy, NY) is an composer, performer, and artist whose work ranges from photography and drawing to video, sound installation, concert music, and critical writing. His \u201csubtle\u2026seductive, immersive\u201d (Artforum) work has been characterized as \u201crigorously focused and full of detail\u201d (e\/i) and \u201cdramatic, powerful, and at one with nature\u201d (The Wire). Exploring the territory between the senses, Cluett\u2019s works are marked by a detailed attention to perception and to the role of sound in the creation of a sense of place, the workings of memory, and the experience of time. His research interests and critical writings investigate embodied experience, immersive multi-media systems, the media history of the loudspeaker, the history and documentation of sound as an expressive medium, and architectural acoustics as compositional material.<\/p>\n Jane Dickson<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a Glasgow based composer and pianist. She is a member of international group n s m b l, dedicated to the performance of new and alternative compositions, and is currently working with librettist Nic Chalmers on a piece exploring the fugue and the fugue state. Her research interests include instrumentality, virtuosity and gender.<\/p>\n Patrick Farmer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is the co-founder of the online curatorial platform, Compost and Height, and the co-editor of the new-music journal, Wolf Notes. Over the last three years he has published three books and has written compositions for groups such as Apartment House and the Set Ensemble.\u00a0Farmer\u00a0has performed and exhibited internationally with artists such as Angharad Davies, Michael Pisaro, Sarah Hughes, and Jason Kahn.\u00a0Festival appearances and residencies include Audiograft (Oxford), The Wulf (Los Angeles), LMC (London), I & E (Dublin), Geiger (Gothenberg), Blurred Edges (Hamburg), Forestry Commission England (Cumbria), Q-O2 (Belgium) and MOKS (Estonia). His work has been released on labels such as Another Timbre, Nadukeenumono, and Winds Measure. His current work looks at\u00a0the nature of the arbitrary; Farmer has begun writing compositions that primarily focus on the sound producing means rather than the sound itself, often utilising more and more fantastical methods to create sounds that are themselves, wonderfully ordinary.<\/p>\n Bruno Guastalla<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is a violin maker and restorer and also a musician.<\/p>\n Julia Holter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is an American experimental artist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. A CalArts graduate, she released her first studio album, Tragedy, in 2011. A second album, Ekstasis, followed in 2012. Holter also collaborates with other musicians including Nite Jewel, Linda Perhacs, and Michael Pisaro. In 2013, she released her third album, Loud City Song to resounding critical acclaim.<\/p>\n Sarah Hughes<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is an artist, composer and performer, producing work that ranges from sculpture, installation, composition and music. She is the co-founder of Compost and\u00a0Height, a curatorial platform that focuses\u00a0on new\u00a0music and composition. She is also co-editor of the new music journal,\u00a0Wolf Notes,<\/em>\u00a0and co-founder of\u00a0BORE<\/em>, a publication dedicated to experimental text-based and graphic scores.\u00a0Hughes\u2019s work has been exhibited and performed internationally, including\u00a0at Supplement, London; V22, London; Sydney Non Objective, Australia;\u00a0Oriel Davies, Wales; Center for New Music, San Francisco; Constellation,\u00a0Chicago and The Wulf, Los\u00a0Angeles. Hughes is Composer-in-Residence at South London Gallery 2015-2016.<\/p>\n Jason Kahn<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>is a musician, artist and writer. As an electronic musician, vocalist and drummer Kahn collaborates regularly with many musicians, both in improvised settings and in the context of graphical scores which he composes for specific groups. Kahn has exhibited his installations in museums, galleries, art spaces and public sites internationally. These works focus on the idea of space: the conceptual and physical juncture points, its production and dissolution, and our relation to it as a political, social and environmental medium. Kahn\u2019s other activities include sound pieces for radio, film, dance and theatre. He has also designed numerous CD, LP and cassette covers. As a writer, his work has appeared in books, magazines and as liner notes to many audio publications. Performing regularly around the world, Kahn has given concerts throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Turkey and South Africa.<\/p>\n Caroline de Lannoy<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>was born in Brussels and lives and works in London.\u00a0She studied at Athens School of Fine Arts, Central St Martins College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. She works across painting, drawing, installation and composition. She has exhibited extensively across Europe as well as internationally including exhibitions at: The Collection Lincoln Museum, La Verriere, Art In General, Huddersfield Art Gallery, MASS MoCA, Royal Academy, Arnolfini, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Whitworth Art Gallery, Gallery North, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Mondriaanhuis, Kettle\u2019s Yard, South London Gallery.<\/p>\n Dominic Lash<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a freely improvising double bassist, although his activities also range much more widely and include playing bass guitar and other instruments; both writing and performing composed music; and writing about music and various other subjects.??He has performed with musicians such as\u00a0Tony Conrad\u00a0(in duo and quartet formations),\u00a0Joe Morris(trio and quartet),\u00a0Evan Parker\u00a0(duo, quartet and large ensemble) and the late\u00a0Steve Reid. His main projects include\u00a0The Dominic Lash Quartet<\/a>,\u00a0The Set Ensemble<\/a>\u00a0(an experimental music group focused on the work of the Wandelweiser collective) and\u00a0The Convergence Quartet<\/a>.\u00a0??Based in Bristol, Lash has performed in the UK, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and USA.<\/p>\n Joseph Clayton Mills<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a musician, artist, and writer who lives and works in Chicago, where his collaborators have included Adam Sonderberg\u00a0and Steven Hess (as Haptic), Michael\u00a0Vallera\u00a0(as Maar),\u00a0No\u00e9\u00a0Cu\u00e9llar\u00a0(as Partial), Sylvain\u00a0Chaveau, Jason Stein, Michael\u00a0Pisaro, and Olivia Block, among many others. His recordings have appeared on numerous labels, including Another Timbre, FSS, and Entr\u2019acte. In 2013, in collaboration with\u00a0No\u00e9\u00a0Cu\u00e9llar, he launched the label\u00a0Suppedaneum\u00a0to focus on releasing scores and their realizations.<\/p>\n Tim Parkinson<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(b.1973) is an independent composer, based in London, UK since 1997. Music has been written for various groups and ensembles including Apartment House, [rout], Incidental Music, Dedalus, Basel Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta; and for various instrumentalists including Stephen Altoft, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Julia Eckhardt, Anton Lukoszevieze, Tanja Masanti, Andrew Sparling, Craig Shepard, Philip Thomas, Stefan Thut.\u00a0Music has been performed in UK, Europe, USA, Armenia, New Zealand, Japan. He is also active as pianist and performer, both independently and also by invitation, having been an occasional performer with Apartment House, and Plus-Minus, and having performed in the UK in venues such as Tate Modern, Barbican, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and further afield in Europe, and South America.\u00a0 Since 2003 Parkinson has been regularly performing with composer James Saunders in the lo-fi electronics, auxiliary instrument and any-sound-producing-means duo Parkinson Saunders. In 2005 launched the yearly London based concert series, \u201cMusic We\u2019d Like to Hear\u201d with composers John Lely and Markus Trunk.<\/p>\n Gino Robair<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>has created music for dance, theatre, radio, television, silent film, and gamelan orchestra, and his works have been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. As a percussionist, he has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, John Butcher, Terry Riley, and Lou Harrison. Robair is one of the \u201c25 innovative percussionists\u201d included in the book\u00a0Percussion Profiles. Recent compositions include Grand Electric Skull for the ROVA Saxophone Quartet and Ikue Mori, and Neither Confirmed Nor Denied, an opera based on number stations.<\/p>\n James Saunders<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a composer with an interest in modularity, series, and group behaviours. He is Head of the Centre for Musical Research at Bath Spa University and performs in the duo Parkinson Saunders.<\/p>\n![\"Wolf](\"http:\/\/modisti.tk\/15\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Wolf-Notes-8b.jpg\")
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