'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 Centre is now available via Bachtrack. bachtrack.com/review-refract…

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Just announced: talks with two legends Charlemagne Palestine (2pm) and Maggie Nicols (3pm), Sat 14 Dec, at La Camionera bar, Wells St, Hackney (round the corner from Hackney Church) w/ Elaine Mitchener and Igor Toronyi-Lalic lcmf.co.uk/14-Dec-Talks-w…

LCMF takeover my slot on NTS Radio today LCMF Thanks to Jack Sheen and the crew! "A whistle-stop tour through our batshit forthcoming festival programme, which kicks off this week (11-14 Dec at Hackney Church)” lcmf.co.uk

Outed as ‘cheeky’ by the New York Times just before Christmas 😔

LCMF opens this evening. Read about it in the New York Times:

I have recently composed a piece for the LCMF Orchestra, which will be premiered on Friday at LCMF during the 3rd evening at Hackney Church lcmf.co.uk/13-December-Ac…

A huge highlight of doing LCMF is always seeing artists chat and cultures, ideas, aesthetics, and scenes cross pollinating. Last night it was Edward Henderson introducing EVOL Roc to ‘the greatest work of durational art ever’, The Archers.

Fabulous surround sound in Hackney Church for London Contemporary Music Festival. Beatriz Ferreyra was a great discovery, and there were bubbles, poured salt, and even a string quartet Apartment House LCMF

Omnicringe made it into the Guardian

LCMF 2024 on Radio 3 tonight – includes new orchestral works by Maggie Nicols, Sofia Jernberg & Laurence Crane, & Yves Klein’s Monotone-Silence Symphony. Plus: Gag by Edward Henderson, KIND by Lisa Streich, EVOL & Kurdish dêngbej-singing from Ali Tekbaş bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Ummmm wigmore-hall.org.uk/booking/60201 LCMF Wigmore Hall lol Happy New Year

Recording underway for Gerald Barry’s new work 'Mars Canon' with Jack Sheen and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra🎶 A part of upcoming BBC Radio 3 project commissioning 25 composers for 2025, each piece reflecting on an event from the first quarter of the 21st century. Tune in Jan 25th!

‘Ceremony Container’ — a site-specific concert-installation created for Ensemble Mosaik and Silent Green’s Betonhalle in Berlin — is now online in the form of a 15’ video digest. Huge thank you to Mosaik and the Siemens Foundation for making this happen. jacksheen.com/ceremony-conta…

‘On’ — a piece for 8 voices, keyboard, percussion, and cello, commissioned by Melos Vocal Ensemble and Apartment House for Lithuanian National Radio — is now on my Soundcloud on.soundcloud.com/GH7HmutEexnfCE…

Peter Ablinger, one of Austria’s most distinctive experimental composers, has died in Berlin at the age of 66. Known for his radical exploration of sound and language, his work remains a landmark in contemporary music. 🔗 Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/peter-ablinger… #PeterAblinger

.Jack Sheen conducts Klangforum Wien in New Music - New Horizons, a concert of seven new works, as part of a residency for Agrigento 2025, tonight at Teatro Luigi Pirandello. en.klangforum.at/event/agrigent…

"Laure M Hiendl’s Seht meine Wunden for ensemble and electronics, deals with music as a spatial artform within the traditional concert setting. Its title and inspiration come from a disturbing line in Philosophy of World Relations, an essay by the Martinican writer, poet and

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Does anyone still use this website? I have a new album out today with Giuseppe Ielasi called 'The Vestige', via Oren Ambarchi's Black Truffle label: jacksheen.bandcamp.com/album/the-vest… LPs and digital below yay