On Wednesday 15th September, Trio Northumbria performed the premiere of my piece for string trio, called string trio fragments at this year’s RMA Annual Conference,… Continue reading ‘string trio fragments’ performed by Trio Northumbria at RMA Conference
For our contribution to this years Tectonics Glasgow Festival, Lauren Redhead and I were in Glasgow recording a concert for BBC Scotland, at the City… Continue reading Tectonics Glasgow 2021: Duo Redhead Zaldua
On May 10th Rei Nakamura will perform work by John Cage, Yukiko Watanabe, Andreas Eduardo Frank and Johannes Kreidler at the Gare du Nord venue… Continue reading Book Launch Concert: Rei Nakamura, ‘Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement – Interpreting Multimedia Piano Compositions’
This audio/visual installation was commissioned by the Borealis Festival (Bergen) for the 2014 edition, the them of which was Alchemy. Around this time I had… Continue reading Leiden Translations (2014)
On December 1st, Lauren Redhead released her online album: the octopus, on the net label: pan y rosas discos. In the description, Lauren describes her… Continue reading Release of Lauren Redhead’s ‘the octopus’ digital opera
This EP draws together music for pianos and electronics from 1997 until 2013. The pieces this EP comprises are: image invisible (1996), inner and outer… Continue reading image invisible EP released on Bandcamp
Earlier this month (December 12th) the whereness quartet had a roughly 30 minute set performed online via the twitch.tv website, on the Jefferson Park EXP… Continue reading Jefferson Park EXP Broadcast with whereness quartet
On Tuesday December 15th at 0.05am German time (23.05 GMT on Monday 14th), my program focussing on notation and improvisation will be broadcast on Deutschlandfunk… Continue reading Broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur of Program: Notation and Improvisation
In October edition of Contemporary Music Review (Contemporary Music Review, Volume 39, Issue 3 (2020)), the theme was: Music and Language, and was edited by… Continue reading Contemporary Music Review: Translation of Cornelius Schwehr + Interview with Annette Schmucki
On 6th November I released my album, remote music, which consists of realisations of a small set of postcard pieces for multiple violins, written, recorded,… Continue reading remote music online album released on bandcamp!
We are very happy to launch our new CD, called simply whereness, both as a digital release and as a CD. This has been published by… Continue reading Whereness Quartet CD Release: 8th October
During the summer Keith Helt, of pan y rosas discos sent out a call for ideas/recordings/concepts that were inspired by the situation of the lockdown… Continue reading viviEntes Ciclo Compilation Album Launch: Lamenzamiento de Cartografiá
At the beginning of lockdown (back in March, 2020), the Swiss pianist, Simone Keller wrote an open call for ideas, scores, sketches that involved the… Continue reading Kanon_E postcard for experimental pianist Simone Keller and Zeiss E-Box
Last August I answered a call published via Sound and Music by the NW Live Arts Charity, simply called the #AsYouSayIt Project ; a full… Continue reading #AsYouSayIt Project
Early last year Lauren Redhead and I set out to commission Swiss composer Annette Schmucki to write us a work for organ and live electronics.… Continue reading Annette Schmucki: ’54 stops’ for organ and live electronics
In May this year Lauren Redhead and I were due to perform at the Tectonics Festival in Glasgow. Unfortunately this has been postponed, the festival… Continue reading Tectonics/Glasgow performance with Lauren, Postponed until May, 2021
Violin album In April I was awarded a grant from the Arts Council Covid Emergency Fund, to record, mix and master an album of music… Continue reading Arts Council Emergency Covid Fund Award
Low Frequency Trio are a trio from Mexico City who specialise in contemporary music. Every year they make an open call, the ‘LFO Generator’, to… Continue reading ‘Laruelle’s Film’ for Low Frequency Trio
In June this year I completed a short 5 minute piece for oboe and violin for a workshop at this year’s upcoming Royal Musical Association… Continue reading ‘counterparts’ for Oboe and Violin
Last year Lauren Redhead and I were pleased to receive a grant from the Hinrichsen Foundation to commission a work for organ and live electronics… Continue reading Ailís Ní Ríain Hinrichsen success, and continued work on her piece: Sour Morning Crimson
In May I was very happy to be awarded one of the Sound and Music Covid 19 Composer Awards. When I applied the lockdown had… Continue reading Sound and Music Covid-19 Composer Award
At the beginning of the lockdown earlier this year Alwynne Pritchard announced that she would be interested in recording and videoing short 1 minute-long postcard… Continue reading ‘Postcard Ahab’ for Alwynne Pritchard
I have recently received a copy of the cd release by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group of the work I wrote last year: manifesto for… Continue reading CD release of ‘manifesto’ performed by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
This Sunday, October 6th, from 3-4pm the Free Range Orchestra will perform a set of experimental works by both members of the ensemble and those… Continue reading Free Range Orchestra at Margate Now Festival, perform at the Turner Contemporary Gallery
This blogpost is a response on a video report that can be found by following this link which was supported by the ‘Innovation, Creativity and… Continue reading Video Report on our collaboration with composer/performer: Nina Whiteman
On Thursday 26th September, Lauren Redhead and I will perform a concert version of hearmleop-gieddunga made specifically for this concert. This concert will be a… Continue reading Concert Performance of ‘hearmleoþ—gieddunga’ at Salford Summit by (and with) Lauren Redhead: Thursday September 26th, 2019
This post announces the publication of a short contribution I made to the New Sound: International Journal of Music, based in Belgrade, Serbia, and was… Continue reading Publication in New Sound: International Journal of Music
In addition to our performance of Mesias Maiguashca’s Nemos Orgel being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 a few weekends ago, it has been broadcast on… Continue reading Broadcast of our performance of ‘Nemos Orgel’, by Mesias Maiguashca on NRK radio
Last Sunday both Lauren Redhead & I were positively surprised at learning that the recording of our performance of Mesias Maiguashca’s Nemos Orgel during the… Continue reading BBC Radio broadcast of our performance of ‘Nemos Orgel’ by Mesias Maiguashca
Together with Lauren Redhead, I am looking forward to performing Mesias Maiguashca’s masterpiece for organ and live electronics: Nemos Orgel at to the Only Connect… Continue reading Duo Redhead/Zaldua: Performance of Nemos Orgel, by Mesias Maiguashca at NyMusikk / Only Connect Festival, Stavanger, Norway
Captain Swing: Gallery Studio 3, Kent Uni On March 31st my piece for narrator, improvising orchestra, live electronics, and conduction will be performed at Gallery… Continue reading Performances in February and March: Captain Swing, manifesto, and Ian Pace at Huddersfield University
Premiere of Captain Swing for Free Range Orchestra at Winter Sound Festival, Canterbury Captain Swing is a work that has been especially composed for the Free… Continue reading News, January, 2019: Premiere of ‘Captain Swing’ at Winter Sound Festival
Notation for Improvisers Conference At present I am organising a one-day conference hosted by the Institute of Musical Research which will examine the many kinds of… Continue reading News: December, 2018
Last September Jesse Ronneau recorded an extended interview on my work for his podcast ‘The Tangle’. Jesse’s page of podcasts can be accessed via the Soundcloud… Continue reading Podcasts with The Tangle/Jesse Ronneau
Welcome to my website. This is the news page where you can read of any upcoming performances, or other news. My website contains information on… Continue reading News: September and October, 2018