Past EVENTS
2017 - present
Cybernetic Forest II
performance with osc~ at wharf chambers
17 November 2024
Four-hour Improvised Megastructure
Barrington Brook - Recorders, Percussion
Gaia Blandina - Cello
Iris Casling - Double Bass
Desmond Clarke - Winds, Electronics
Leeds, UK
Saturate
hypoglossa
19 October 2024
Zoë Birtwhistle - Voice
Desmond Clarke - Oboe and Electronics
Leeds, UK
where lies the strangling fruit… premiere
11 October 2024
Vacuum String Quartet
Kazan, Russia
Saturate
silicon life premiere
cirrus (no. 4 from five exploded pastorales)
20 August 2024
Desmond Clarke - Oboe and Electronics
The Arts Barge, York, UK
performance with osc~ at Chapel FM
27 July 2024
Gaia Blandina - Cello
Zoe Birtwhistle - Viola, Psaltry and Electronics
Desmond Clarke - Double Bass and Electronics
Chapel FM Radio
a creation for york
15 June 2024
York Mystery Plays Supporters Trust, in collaboration with Katie Smith (director)
Hartrigg Oaks, York, UK
a creation for york premiere
1 June 2024
York Mystery Plays Supporters Trust, in collaboration with Katie Smith (director)
St Columba’s United Reformed Church, York, UK
five exploded pastorales premiere
4 May 2024
Mikey Sluman - Oboe d’Amore, Cor Anglais, Bass Oboe
Late Music, York, UK
transformation (for lucy) Premiere
22 February 2024
Lucy Havelock, Saxophone
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
bird-organ
Elastic time iii
Recordari
21 February 2024
Spirited Winds (Desmond Clarke, Jennifer Cohen, Carmen Troncoso)
York St. John University, York, UK
bird-organ
12 December 2023
Spirited Winds (Desmond Clarke, Jennifer Cohen, Carmen Troncoso)
University of York, UK
bird-organ Premiere
4 December 2023
Spirited Winds (Desmond Clarke, Jennifer Cohen, Carmen Troncoso)
Mount School, York, UK
tracing the line: The art of drawing machines and pen plotters published
November 2023
Featured artist
Vetro Editions
elastic time iii
10 October 2023
Spirited Winds (Desmond Clarke, Jennifer Cohen, Carmen Troncoso)
University of York, UK
a carillon for jt
22 July 2023
Kate Harrison-Ledger - Toy Piano
Huddersfield, UK
performance with osc~ at Chapel FM
18 June 2023
Desmond Clarke - Oboe, Cor Anglais and Electronics
Barrington Brook - Recorders, Guitar and Electronics
Chapel FM Radio
Labó Bosa Residency and exhibition
1-10 June 2023
Bosa, Sardinia, Italy
norman rea retrospective event
7 June 2023
Invited Speaker
Norman Rea Gallery, York, UK
elastic time iv Premiere
12 May 2023
Olivia Jageurs, Harp
Online
tetrahedron PREMIERE
21 April 2023
Colin Frank - Electronics
Cultures of Sound, Huddersfield, UK
TRANSCENDENTAL STRAINS V PREMIERE
25 March 2023
Rosetta Collective
Rohm Theatre, Koyoto, Japan
five exploded pastorales broadcast premiere
28 February 2023
Mikey Sluman - Oboe
Left of Leeds, Chapel FM Radio
performance with arc project
25 February 2023
Premiere of Our Own Parade by Ralph Lewis
York, UK
knownunknown generative art event
26 January 2023
Invited Speaker
Online
NARCISSUS
20 January 2023
Kate Harrison-Ledger - Piano
York, UK
York Design week exhibition
17 October 2022
The Angel on the Green, York, UK
performance at good emotions
13 October 2022
Desmond Clarke - Oboe and Cor Anglais
Barrington Brook - Percussion
Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK
cache money exhibition
Installation and exhibition of visual art
10-28 October 2022
Norman Rea Gallery, York, UK
elastic time III premiere
3 September 2022
Anna Palko - Flute
Desmond Clarke - Oboe
Sapphire Littler - Clarinet
Online
performance with arc project
3 September 2022
Premieres of Disc Phase by Randall Krieger and Arborescent Symmetries by Wajdi Abou Diab
Online
performance with ish (ensemble)
22 June 2022
StreetLife York, UK
julia sketches broadcast
17 May 2022
Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone, Graham Dunning, NTS Radio
elastic time II premiere
14 June 2022
University of York Piano Ensemble
The University of York, UK
three postcard pieces premiere
14 May 2022
Gaia Blandina - Cello
Desmond Clarke - Oboe
Lucy Havelock - Saxophone
StreetLife York, UK
Recordari
18 June 2022
Carmen Troncoso - Recorders
Desmond Clarke - Electronics
Hebden Bridge, UK
flat landscape with clouds premiere
20 March 2022
David Cotter, Kevin Loh, Classical Guitars
21st Century Guitar Conference, Indiana, USA
Going off grid: notating non-denominational rhythms with video scores
3 February 2022
Conference Presentation
London College of Music, UK
red midi Premiere
Winter wonderland Premiere
___Flow___ Installation
18 December 2021
The Arc Project Festival
Online
Outside The Lines: Composing (With) Video Scores
30 October 2021
Conference Presentation
University of North Georgia, USA
plotting inequality exhibition
20-26 October 2021
Installation and exhibition of visual art, part of York Design Week 2021
York Explore Library and Archive, UK
bright waves premiere
29 June 2021
Lucy Havelock - Saxophones,
Alex Norman - Trumpets
Online
Three Spaces premiere
16 April 2021
Erika Mulkern - Contemporary Dancer
Online
Recursive Prelude premiere
27 October 2020
Archie Bonham - Piano
Online
strange beast premiere
22 September 2020
James Banner - Double Bass
Online
Video scores lecture
3 March 2020
The University of York, UK
overture; scene premiere
29 February 2020
A Very Small Consortium
The University of Wisconsin, USA
Luspra premiere
20 January 2020
Rebecca Burden - Cello
Desmond Clarke - Electronics
Spread, The Crescent, York, UK
Liszt Fields
21 November 2019
Jakob Fichert - Piano
1901 Arts Club, London, UK
meadowland premiere
9 October 2019
Mikey Sluman - Bass Oboe
John McDougal - Hecklephone
David Baker - Bassoon
Leeds College of Music, UK
oiseaux metamorphique
13 October 2019
Kathryn Bowman - Recorder
Tonbridge, UK
A carillon for j t premiere
18 September 2019
Kate Ledger - Toy Piano
AMOK, St Martin-cum-Gregory, York, UK
Summer on the Ice Planet premiere
transcendental strains iii(A) premiere
11th August 2019
Northern Contemporary Collective
Leeds, UK
insect-wood-growth
nucleation grooves
July 2019
Arditti Quartet / Cikada
Bilkent University, Ankara
Lara: A Piano at night premiere
0200 20 May 2019
An immersive AV nightscape
In collaboration with Lara Jones
Eiger Studios, Leeds, UK
Liszt Fields premiere
14 April 2019
Jakob Fichert - Piano
Besbrodes, Leeds, UK
Recordari
01 March 2019
Carmen Troncoso - Recorders
Lynette Quek - Electronics
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Creative coding lab symposium | Electric Spring
23 February 2019
”Outsourcing the Hard Bits: some thoughts on automation in composition and performance”
The University of Huddersfield, UK
Saturate premiere
06 February 2019
Desmond Clarke - Oboe
AMOK, York, UK
Gruppenspiel premiere
05 January 2019
Northern Contemporary Collective
Leeds, UK
___flow___ installation
15-18 October 2018
Installed at the Centre for Contemporary Arts as part of Sound Thought 2018
Glasgow, UK
recordari radio broadcast
8 August 2018
Broadcast on Beethoven FM, Chile
Narcissus premiere
12-15 July 2018
Three performances by the New Maker Ensemble
various venues, Madeira, Portugal
Manifeste 2018
18-30 June 2018
conducted ensemble workshop with Ensemble Intercontemporain/Marko Nikodijevic
IRCAM, Paris, France
recordari
2nd June 2018
Carmen Troncoso
Late Music Concerts, York, UK
closed, open, closed premiere
31st May 2018
University of York Piano Ensemble
conference presentation: Mediating Composition and Improvisation Using Live-Generated Video Scores
29th April 2018
Sound Agendas Conference, Centre for New Music at Sheffield, UK
___flow___ premiere
14th April 2018
AV Installation
3Sixty Auditorium, PHP Yorkshire, York, UK
MUSIC FOR MINIATURE LANDSCAPes radio broadcasts
8th February 2018 - Radio Cemat (Web)
21st January 2018 - Rai Radio 3 (Italy)
8th December 2017 - Radio Belgrade 3 (Serbia)
Broadcasts of the October 2017 Quartetto Apeiron Ascoli Piceno performance
MUSIC FOR MINIATURE LANDSCAPES
17th October 2017
Quartetto Apeiron
NUOVI SPAZI MUSICALI Festival, Ascoli Piceno, Italy
oboe - lunchtime concert
4th October 2017
York St. John University, UK
Featuring works by Melinda Maxwell, Morag Galloway and John Hails
tell one, forget one
10th & 11th August 2017
Leaky Boat Productions
Tete-a-Tete Opera Festival, London, UK
RESIDENCY AT THE CLEARING
19th-23rd June 2017
Developing work with Bethan Vincent
Compton Verney Sculpture Park, Warwickshire, UK
Unbelonging PREMIERE
7:30pm, 3rd June 2017
Collaboration with Bethan Vincent
Desmond Clarke - Double Bass, Electronics
Bethan Vincent - Voice, Poetry
Stained Glass Centre, York, UK
QUATRE TABLEAUX VIVANTS PREMIERE
1pm, 2nd June 2017
CLADZ
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York, UK
MUSIC AND/AS PROCESS CONFERENCE
20th May 2017
Presentation of the work Partita Algoritmica at the Music and/as Process 5th Annual Conference
University of Wolverhampton, UK
HYPOGLOSSA PREMIERE
4pm, 29th April 2017
Elizabeth Hilliard - Voice
Music Current 2017, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, Ireland