in/un-folding some concerns
[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 and…
An Approach to ‘outlined against afterglow’
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 their…
Recording
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 distance…
david william murray - composer 