Fun times at my first-ever @hcmfuk.bsky.social 2025. My piece for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social is out now, with pretty mind-boggling insights from Graham McKenzie and a few unvarnished concert takes. This one's for lovers of numbers and sceptics of the UK’s arts funding. van-magazine.com/mag/huddersf...

I enjoyed my conversation with sound artist Maia Urstad immensely after discovering her work at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse earlier this year. German readers can find our conversation in POSITIONEN issue 145. English readers will have to wait a few months before it appears online

An essay from what I now call my prime metamodern phase — on Francesca Fargion’s music, its oscillations, naivety, Romanticism, parental relationships and the evanescent, banal everyday. Have a read! maratology.substack.com/p/happy-sad-...

"Garland showed exactly what the UK new music scene could achieve if funding matched ambition." My review of Oliver Leith's Garland is out via @bachtrack.com. bachtrack.com/review-leith...

My Darmstadt 25 review is in @vanmusicmag.bsky.social. 'Situations' are audience agency, censorship, David Tudor, distracted listening, Hannes Seidl, healing sounds, hybrid formats, immediacy, instagrammable art, Maryanne Amacher, neoliberalism, spatial arrangements van-magazine.com/mag/darmstad...

Marat Ingeldeev reports from Musik Installationen Nürnberg, where he eats a very good shawarma, gets pedalled around a lake in a hot pink flamingo pedalo by two retirees, and ponders nonlinearity — and much more at @vanmusicmag.bsky.social van-magazine.com/mag/musik-in...

It was a pleasure to chat with Elaine Mitchener about Julius Eastman, art activism, that salty Cage incident, and decolonising music canons ahead of "Moving Eastman" at the Barbican. Read our conversation in @vanmusicmag.bsky.social van-magazine.com/mag/julius-e...

With Another Timbre's new CDs imminent, I invite you to read my interview with Bryn Harrison. We discussed 'Towards a slowing of the past', disorientation in music, immersive listening and the most important lesson he learnt from pianist @philipthomas.bsky.social. anothertimbre.com/harrisontowa...

'We simply need more quirky curation-as-art and art-as-curation.' My review of last Friday's highly compelling 'Refracted Sound' event at Southbank is now available via @bachtrack.com. bachtrack.com/review-refra...

Back in May, via @vanmusicmag.bsky.social, I had a lovely chat with @mshlom.bsky.social about co-composition, the role of artistic voice, and his allergic reaction to Romanticism and its values. Enjoy! van-magazine.com/mag/matthew-...