Author Archives: David William Murray

[the below is a transcript of a video introduction programme note made for the Salamanca Arts Centre prior to the premiere of infold] Infold Since 2020 there has been a preoccupation in my compositional practice with works unfolding as a process of exegesis. This exegetical approach is grounded in my background in historiographical studies andContinue reading “in/un-folding some concerns”

Materiality and what it means to be led by it as a force that attracts both other materialities and sensibility is a source of consternation for me. I am never sure whether what is suggested by these seemingly found movements of thought to be valid or useful, and must subject them and their outcomes theirContinue reading “An Approach to ‘outlined against afterglow’”

At the start of writing this I am listening to Edgard Varese’s Déserts. I am up to the first mindbending interpolation of the tape track – at this juncture it is as if the whole work turns sideways or leaps into another dimension, a dimension that seems flattened out to us now with the distanceContinue reading “Recording”

given our current situation of social distancing and isolation, I have been in contact by phone more regularly with my friends. in the middle of one conversation last week, without a second thought, I asked Johannes MacDonald to hold his thought mid-sentence while I grabbed my little recorder and began to document our conversation. inContinue reading “documentation”