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Musical Utopias

Introducing Musical Utopias

Introducing Musical Utopias, a festival marking 15 years of Ensemble Klang

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Matthew Wright’s Cold Highlife

Three works, geographically distinct, each hewn from a bold sonic palette of colliding forces.

Pete Harden’s Precious Metals

Oscar Bettison interviews Klang’s guitarist and composer on his album 'Precious Metals'

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grids, sieves and a flight of stairs

Christopher Fox’s poetic reaction to the music on Matthew Wright’s debut album ‘Music at the edge of collapse’

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Music at the Crossroads

Alex Rose ponders Oscar Bettison's ‘O Death’ as an out-of-body experience, placing the listener at a crossroads between one world and the next.

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Found Music

Samuel Vriezen studies the ‘found’ mathematical structures that form the backbone to the music of Tom Johnson

Q&A with Peter Adriaansz

“All revolves around notation: every kind of music at root demands its own notation.”

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Bob Gilmore on Peter Adriaansz’s Waves

Bob Gilmore’s insightful liner notes from Ensemble Klang’s recording of Peter Adriaansz’s ‘Waves’.

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Michael Hersch’s Black Untitled

Aaron Grad dissects Michael Hersch’s pair of works on the Ensemble Klang album ‘Black Untitled’.