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    Ute Wassermann & Richard Barrett – Histoires Naturelles (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 29, 2021 • 05:00
    March 29, 2021 • 05:00

    When choosing the theme of nature for this year’s Lent Series, one of the first works i knew i wanted to include was Histoires Naturelles, a collaboration for voice and electronics by Ute Wassermann and Richard Barrett. Not to be confused with Ravel’s song cycle of the same name(!), the…

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  • Mixtapes

    The Isolation Mixtapes : Q

    by 5:4 July 27, 2020 • 10:10
    July 27, 2020 • 10:10

    For the latest Isolation Mixtape i’ve had to take a slightly different approach from usual. We’ve reached the letter Q in my alphabetical celebration of some of the best music from the last decade and, quite frankly, though i scoured my music collection like never before, trying to put together…

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  • ConcertsPremières

    HCMF 2017: Shorts

    by 5:4 November 21, 2017 • 13:35
    November 21, 2017 • 13:35

    i’ve been starting to wonder in recent years whether HCMF’s annual ‘Shorts’ day – on Monday, filled with free concerts lasting either 20 or 40 minutes – is actually one of the festival’s main highlights, rivalling the flagship events on the two weekends. It’s certainly an opportunity for musical experiences…

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    Recognition, raw ambition and raw power: Alba New Music 2017

    by 5:4 October 13, 2017 • 12:51
    October 13, 2017 • 12:51

    Last weekend brought the welcome return of Alba New Music, Edinburgh’s nascent new music festival. Having got the ball rolling with a bang last year, the 2017 festival as a whole felt more focused, in part due to deliberately having something of a thematic thread running through it. With an emphasis…

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  • Best of the YearMixtapes

    Mixtape #37 : Best Albums of 2016

    by 5:4 January 1, 2017 • 08:23
    January 1, 2017 • 08:23

    HAPPY NEW YEAR! i’m starting 2017 in the usual way, with a mixtape bringing together one track from each of the forty albums on my best of 2016 list. i’m sure posterity will come to regard last year as something of a trough in human history, but this mixtape does…

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    Best Albums of 2016 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 December 30, 2016 • 00:10
    December 30, 2016 • 00:10

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * i’ve long wondered whether there’s any justification—or, indeed, any point—in making end of year lists, particularly when, as usual, there’s a pile of as yet unplayed discs staring down…

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  • ConcertsPremières

    A mass of miniature miracles: Alba New Music 2016

    by 5:4 October 12, 2016 • 11:01
    October 12, 2016 • 11:01

    A couple of miles out of the centre of Edinburgh, emblazoned in brightly-lit capital letters, is a stark, startling sentence: THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE. Created by Nathan Coley in 2009, and situated outside the Modern Two gallery, the unequivocal message of this bold piece of art rang entirely…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    New releases: NEOS box sets – Donaueschinger Musiktage 2014, Darmstadt Aural Documents Box 3: Ensembles

    by 5:4 October 2, 2016 • 15:21
    October 2, 2016 • 15:21

    What with the increase in listeners turning away from physical releases in favour of digital downloads, and in light of yet another (admittedly somewhat spurious) article this week offhandedly proclaiming the imminent death of the album, the efforts of German label NEOS to put out large, lavish box sets are both absurd…

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  • PremièresThematic series

    Richard Barrett – Opening of the Mouth (UK Première)

    by 5:4 November 16, 2014 • 21:48
    November 16, 2014 • 21:48

    To bring my little ‘death season’ to a close, a major work that confronts the subject in the most breathtakingly imaginative and radical way. Richard Barrett‘s Opening of the Mouth, composed over a five-year period from 1992-97, is a daunting work even to begin to write about, partly due to…

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  • Lent SeriesPremières

    Richard Barrett – 13 selfportraits (UK Première)

    by 5:4 February 18, 2013 • 19:31
    February 18, 2013 • 19:31

    The next quartet i’m including in my Lent series is one that i’ve been grappling with for over a decade. When Richard Barrett’s 13 selfportraits was given its first UK performance at the Huddersfield Festival in 2002, i can’t have been the only person in the audience to have been…

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    Mixtape #25 : Best Albums of 2012

    by 5:4 January 1, 2013 • 09:05
    January 1, 2013 • 09:05

    HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL! Today marks 5:4‘s fifth anniversary, and so i’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who regularly read, share and respond to the articles and music explored here. Since 2008, the blog has grown from being an occasional hobby (reading the…

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  • Best of the YearCD/Digital releases

    Best Albums of 2012 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 December 31, 2012 • 00:11
    December 31, 2012 • 00:11

    * Please note this list has how been superseded by the one on the Best Albums of the Years page * The lists reduce the vastness into controllable sizes, into the size of things that can fit into our mind, where they can expand again to the size of everything.…

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  • Premières

    HCMF 2008: Markus Trunk, Richard Barrett, John Cage

    by 5:4 July 29, 2009 • 07:17
    July 29, 2009 • 07:17

    Returning to the (more recent) archives, here are some interesting works taking a look back at the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Markus Trunk‘s Parhelion is most striking for its extreme delicacy; after a while, the prominent celesta actually starts to sound loud. The material appears as though formed from…

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  • Premières

    Ensemble Exposé: Brian Ferneyhough – Incipits (UK Première) plus Davies, Xenakis, Barrett, Dillon and Sørensen

    by 5:4 June 6, 2008 • 21:15
    June 6, 2008 • 21:15

    Here’s a real treat for those who prefer their contemporary music to be at the more intellectually rewarding end of the continuum. It’s music from a concert given at the ICA in London by Ensemble Exposé (plus violist Garth Knox), under the direction of Roger Redgate, who also discusses the…

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