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    Outside-In: Monty Adkins

    by 5:4 June 16, 2020 • 13:13
    June 16, 2020 • 13:13

    Today’s addition to the Outside-In field recording compilation comes from Huddersfield-based composer Monty Adkins. Here’s Monty’s introduction The recording was made in February 2019 during a residency in Reims. The short soundscape charts the route from my apartment to the studio space in which I was working. Proceeding from the …

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    HCMF 2018: HISS@10, Kudzu, Fast Gold Butterflies

    by 5:4 November 22, 2018 • 14:46
    November 22, 2018 • 14:46

    Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Of those four words, i’d hazard to suggest that the most important is the third one, music. What exactly constitutes ‘music’ is a good question, and one of HCMF’s strengths is the way it’s prepared to challenge and probe what that word connotes and how it …

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    Beyond Pythagoras; Phantom Images

    by 5:4 June 27, 2018 • 18:00
    June 27, 2018 • 18:00

    Perhaps the most consistently and fearlessly challenging of UK new music labels is Huddersfield Contemporary Records. As such, they’re not exactly a label needing to up their game, but with their latest couple of albums they’ve done just that, releasing some of the most unforgettable stuff i’ve heard this year. …

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    Mixtape #41 : Best Albums of 2017

    by 5:4 January 1, 2018 • 09:15
    January 1, 2018 • 09:15

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!! As of today, 5:4 is ten years old, so first of all i want to say an enormous thank you to all of you who have read, commented, enjoyed, shared and supported this blog over the last decade, especially to my merry band of patrons. As this …

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    Best Albums of 2017 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 December 31, 2017 • 00:00
    December 31, 2017 • 00:00

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * So here they are, the best of the best of 2017. Your CD racks and audio libraries would be so much better off with these incredible gems nestling among …

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    Ambient@40 conference

    by 5:4 November 15, 2017 • 12:45
    November 15, 2017 • 12:45

    Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the release of Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports, an album that established a manifesto, an aesthetic, an ideology and an archetype for ambient music. This is something i’m intending to celebrate and explore on 5:4 throughout 2018, but beyond this, i’m delighted …

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    Monty Adkins – Shadows and Reflections

    by 5:4 November 4, 2017 • 13:31
    November 4, 2017 • 13:31

    An interesting aspect of what i’ve been calling ‘steady statism‘ is the relationship it has with the idea of stasis. What is a musical stasis? Considering that music unfolds in time, isn’t it an oxymoronic idea? Furthermore, is such a hypothetical stasis intentional (objective) or perceptional (subjective) – or both? …

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  • Mixtapes

    Mixtape #40 : Miniatures

    by 5:4 October 1, 2017 • 11:13
    October 1, 2017 • 11:13

    Even more than is usually the case, the new 5:4 Mixtape is a pure stream of consciousness. i’ve returned to a theme i explored in one of the earliest mixtapes, miniatures, once again setting myself a limit of music lasting under two minutes. With a shortlist of 100+ tracks (each …

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    The Dialogues: Monty Adkins

    by 5:4 April 18, 2017 • 09:22
    April 18, 2017 • 09:22

    It’s a real pleasure to present a new instalment in my occasional series The Dialogues. This episode is in conversation with composer Monty Adkins, whose music i’ve written about many times on 5:4 and hold in very high regard. Our discussion explores a wide range of topics, including the fundamental aspects of …

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  • CD/Digital releases

    New releases: Monty Adkins & Terri Hron, Åke Parmerud, Francis Dhomont

    by 5:4 May 23, 2016 • 22:14
    May 23, 2016 • 22:14

    The latest crop of releases from Canadian label Empreintes DIGITALes has proved as thought-provoking as ever, offering extremely diverse approaches to electronic music, with similarly varied results. Léptidoptères, a new 40-minute cycle of music by composer Monty Adkins in collaboration with recorder player Terri Hron, takes its inspiration, as the name …

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  • Best of the YearMixtapes

    Mixtape #36 : Best Albums of 2015

    by 5:4 January 1, 2016 • 12:00
    January 1, 2016 • 12:00

    A very HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all! In keeping with 5:4 tradition, here’s the new year Mixtape showcasing music from each of my Best Albums of 2015. Three hours that demonstrate something of the sonic wonders that materialised last year. Enjoy! — and there are links to buy each …

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  • Best of the Year

    Best Albums of 2015 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 December 31, 2015 • 12:38
    December 31, 2015 • 12:38

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * And here, bringing 2015 to a truly glorious end, is the conclusion of my countdown of the year’s best albums.

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  • CD/Digital releases

    New releases: Simon Steen-Andersen, Monty Adkins & Stephen Harvey, Jennifer Walshe

    by 5:4 April 13, 2015 • 12:32
    April 13, 2015 • 12:32

    My round-up of the most interesting new releases this time features three objects: a film, a box and a book, each desirable for very different reasons. The film, available from Dacapo Records, is a much-to-be-celebrated DVD release of Simon Steen-Andersen‘s bewilderingly marvellous work Black Box Music. The memory of my …

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  • ConcertsFestivals

    Electric Spring 2015

    by 5:4 February 25, 2015 • 21:33
    February 25, 2015 • 21:33

    i don’t know which felt more strange, being in Huddersfield for a music festival in February (rather than November), or the fact that, somehow, for two decades the university’s Electric Spring festival has entirely passed me by. Better late than never, i suppose, especially as this year’s festival, which took place …

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  • CD/Digital releases

    New releases: Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Markus Reuter, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Arditti Quartet, Eric Craven, Audiobulb, Zbigniew Karkowski, Nordvargr, Stockhausen

    by 5:4 January 26, 2015 • 22:28
    January 26, 2015 • 22:28

    It’s a while since i’ve had a chance to survey new releases, so there’s quite a few that are overdue being highlighted. Some of them appeared on my recent Best Albums of the Year list, such as Anna Thorvaldsdottir‘s Aerial, out on Deutsche Grammophon. As i’ve mentioned in my previous articles …

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  • Best of the YearMixtapes

    Mixtape #32 : Best Albums of 2014

    by 5:4 January 1, 2015 • 13:14
    January 1, 2015 • 13:14

    HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! Many, many thanks to all of you who have followed the blog through the last 12 months, particularly to all those who have commented and tweeted in response or retort. As usual, here’s my new year mixtape featuring a track from all forty of my Best …

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  • Best of the Year

    Best Albums of 2014 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 December 31, 2014 • 10:58
    December 31, 2014 • 10:58

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * Bringing the main course to an end, here’s the conclusion of the countdown of my forty best albums of 2014. It’s been a breathtaking year. 20 | Salvatore Sciarrino – Cantare con silenzio …

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    Best EPs of 2014

    by 5:4 December 29, 2014 • 12:15
    December 29, 2014 • 12:15

    It’s that time once again, so as the year starts to sputters to its close, here’s my annual round-up of the best encounters i’ve had with 2014’s crop of new releases, beginning with the top 10 EPs. 10 | Deaf Center – Recount Feel the solemnity; Norwegian duo Erik Skodvin and Otto …

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  • ConcertsFestivalsPremières

    HCMF 2014: Monty Adkins + Britt Pernille Frøholm, Arne Deforce + Mika Vainio, Gareth Davis

    by 5:4 November 29, 2014 • 15:35
    November 29, 2014 • 15:35

    Last night’s and this morning’s concerts all featured soloists performing and interacting with electronics and/or visual elements within large-scale compositional forms. Monty Adkins‘ new 40-minute work Spiral Paths to some extent brings together the twin lines of enquiry that led to Four Shibusa (electronics with live performers) and Rift Patterns …

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  • ConcertsFestivalsPremières

    HCMF 2014: Quatuor Bozzini, Electric Spring @ 20

    by 5:4 November 27, 2014 • 00:57
    November 27, 2014 • 00:57

    This evening’s (rather poorly attended) concert given by the Bozzini Quartet featured a trio of works by composers from their native Canada. Of the three, Martin Arnold‘s Vault was the most straightforward, the quartet for the most part enunciating a single melodic line as a single musical body, united by material, …

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