from "the green is either" (2003-4)

upcoming releases

New Music 20x12.  NMC.  Compilation of the twenty works commissioned by the PRSF New Music 20x12 project as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.  To include live recording of A Painter of Figures in Rooms, EXAUDI.  To be released late 2012.

EXAUDI.  HCR.  A disc of vocal works written for EXAUDI (details tbc).  To include studio recording of A Painter of Figures in Rooms, EXAUDI.  To be released 2013.

discography

The Crutch of Memory.  Includes:  The Crutch of Memory; Being itself a catastrophe, the diagram must not create a catastrophe; Because they mark the zone where the force is in the process of striking; What then renders these forces visible is a strange smile; I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips; Metallic Dust; asphyxia; songs only as sad as their listener.  ELISION ensemble.  Recorded and produced by Radio Bremen, supported by CeReNeM.  NEOS 11201, January 2012.  Available here.

Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010.  Includes Second String Quartet.  JACK Quartet.  NEOS 11114-7, October 2011.  Available here.

transference.  ELISION / Manuel Nawri, conductor.  Includes:  memento/memorial (two versions); And the scream, Bacon's scream, is the operation through which the entire body escapes through the mouth (or, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion).  HCR02, November 2010.  Available online here.

strange forces.  ELISION.  Includes Because they mark the zone where the force is in the process of striking and What then renders these forces visible is a strange smile (both recorded live, hcmf 2009).  HCR03, November 2010.  Available online here.

producer credits

Producer, Howard Skempton, He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.  EXAUDI.  mode 226, October 2010.

Producer, Ferneyhough La Chûte d’Icare, ELISION, Jean Deroyer, cond., Carl Rosman, clarinet. Kairos 0013072KAI, 2010.

Producer, Howard Skempton Ben Somewhen, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. NMC D135, September 2007.

Producer, Christopher Fox: A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble. NMC D114, November 2005.

Co-Producer, Michael Finnissy: Maldon & other choral works, EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, with Michael Finnissy, Howard Skempton, Philip Howard, Julian Warburton. NMC D110, April 2005.