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Alex Hills - Composer: June 2009
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Alex Hills - Composer. My music, news and occasional thoughts about music and other things I like. Sunday, 21 June 2009. Everything in Life can be Montaged. Everything in Life - Selection (c.20 mins). This is my programme note for the piece:. Prelude - On Mosolov's 4 Newspaper Ads, Op.21. II A Sentimental Journey. III The Energy of Delusion - Montage. IV The Dissimilarity of the Similar. This piece grew very gradually from a notion of the power and purpose of art proposed by the Russian thinker Viktor Sh...
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Alex Hills - Composer: The CD in the outside world!
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Alex Hills - Composer. My music, news and occasional thoughts about music and other things I like. Tuesday, 24 September 2013. The CD in the outside world! It is exciting to watch my disk begin to find its way into the outside world. So far Alles seems to be very much the hit single, I suppose not inappropriately given its rock and roll origins. Somewhat ironic in that not a pitch of it was actually written by me, though. So far, it has been on the Sound Projector poadcast. At work with a floating violin.
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Alex Hills - Composer: Review for the CD
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Alex Hills - Composer. My music, news and occasional thoughts about music and other things I like. Tuesday, 21 January 2014. Review for the CD. A very nice review of the CD from Tim Rutherford-Johnson in the latest edition of Tempo. It is nice to have someone listen and engage seriously, and to have the space to talk about the music that this kind of journal allows. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). At work with a floating violin. A bit about me. Formal Biography for Programmes (download). Line Study, ...
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Alex Hills - Composer: October 2008
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Alex Hills - Composer. My music, news and occasional thoughts about music and other things I like. Saturday, 4 October 2008. This piece, written in 2005, finally got its first performance a couple of months ago, from the outstanding young Australian pianist Zubin Kanga, at the York Late Music Festival. This is a recording of that performance, and the piece is a little less than 12 minutes long. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). At work with a floating violin. A bit about me. The Music of Making Strange. Everyt...
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Alex Hills - Composer: September 2009
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Alex Hills - Composer. My music, news and occasional thoughts about music and other things I like. Thursday, 17 September 2009. A couple of London performances coming up:. Knight's Move - the first part of Everything in Life. - will be played at the wonderful Kammer Klang on September 29th, info here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). At work with a floating violin. A workshop with Kwesi Edman on A Sentimental Journey. Photo courtesy RAM. A bit about me. Formal Biography for Programmes (download). The Principl...
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Alex Hills - Composer: January 2008
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Alex Hills - Composer. My music, news and occasional thoughts about music and other things I like. Tuesday, 22 January 2008. The Principle of Terrestrial Mediocrity. The title of this piece comes from Martin Amis's The Information:. The principle of terrestrial mediocrity.”. Sunday, 13 January 2008. Saturday, 12 January 2008. This performance is from the BMIC's Cutting Edge series, in September 2004, with Claire Edwardes playing the vibraphone, Sarah Nicholls the piano and Carlos Galvez the bass clarinet.
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Alex Hills - Composer: February 2008
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Alex Hills - Composer. My music, news and occasional thoughts about music and other things I like. Sunday, 24 February 2008. I've just put up some bits of a few scores, which you can download from the sidebar. If any of these look interesting to you, please do let me know and I'll be happy to send you a copy of the whole thing, either electronically or the old-fashioned way! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). At work with a floating violin. A bit about me. Formal Biography for Programmes (download). Everything ...
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Alex Hills - Composer: June 2008
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Alex Hills - Composer. My music, news and occasional thoughts about music and other things I like. Monday, 9 June 2008. I like the mix of 'musical' and 'non-musical' sounds here, the random lapses into kitsch piano concertos, the kind of surreal joy of it all. Next, two 'technological' cover versions. 386DX is the 'band' of a Russian digital artist called Alexi Shulgin, who recreates rock classics using a 1st generation PC, with just a soundcard and speech program:. Big Ideas (don't get any). The Princip...
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Alex Hills - Composer: Flatland in London
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Alex Hills - Composer. My music, news and occasional thoughts about music and other things I like. Wednesday, 8 October 2014. EXAUDI are giving the first UK performance of Flatland in 10 days - flyer below for full details. October 18th, 7.30 pm at the Bishopsgate Institute near Liverpool St. Station, and FREE! I'm very excited about this. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). At work with a floating violin. A workshop with Kwesi Edman on A Sentimental Journey. Photo courtesy RAM. A bit about me. For 3/For...