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A Prescription for Action

This chapter summarises my performance practice over the previous decade, drawing upon repertoire that I have performed and advocated. Specifically examples are cited from music by John Cage, Michael Finnissy, Bryn Harrison, Joseph Kudirka, John Lely, Tim Parkinson, Michael Parsons, Howard Skempton and Christian Wolff. The following concerts and recordings inform and are informed by the ideas presented in this chapter: 1) 2009 ‘Something new, something old, something else’: two programmes of experimental music including world premieres of Finnissy’s First Political Agenda and Saunders’ PART OF IT MAY ALSO BE PART OF SOMETHING ELSE and music by Harrison and Skempton. Concerts in Sheffield City Hall, University of Huddersfield and as part of Sound and Music’s ‘The Cutting Edge’ series, The Warehouse, London. 2) 2009 ‘For Pianist: the piano music of Christian Wolff’ including new works by Parkinson, Parsons and Skempton (Sheffield and London) 3) 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Small Preludes, aytoods and other new music from America World and UK premieres of solo piano music from Kudirka and Wolff. 4) 2010 Performances as part of RGAP exhibition of Sol LeWitt books, Site Gallery, Sheffield. Included a number of performances of music by Kudirka, Lely and Parkinson. 5) 2011 Basel, Switzerland. IBNM concert series. Music by Finnissy, Harrison and Wolff 6) 2010 Tim Parkinson piano piece piano piece (Edition Wandelweiser Records, EWR1005) 7) 2011 James Saunders divisions that could be autonomous but that comprise the whole (another timbre, at44) 8) 2013 Bryn Harrison Vessels (another timbre, at69) 9) 2013 Richard Glover Logical Harmonies (another timbre, at66) Related lectures anticipating and developing the themes explored here include: 2009 Guest speaker at Ostrava New Music Days. Two talks, about experimental music performance. One of these is published in the 2009 Ostrava Days Report.