Composer Piers Hellawell, deep in preparation for the New Music Biennial which begins in early-2013, has been blogging about a recent workshop with Bourne-Davis-Kane, the improvising trio he’s collaborating with for the PRS for Music-backed initiative, which will see new music performed at weekend showcases to be held at the Southbank Centre in London, and the UNESCO city of music in Glasgow next summer. He writes: “Introducing the element of improvisation into a world of notated composition like mine is like bringing an animal from the wild into a home setting: in its own environment its rules make perfect sense, while in a domestic framework considerable issues arise from how those rules impact on this alien context. I never thought this would be a breeze; at the same time we made a great start, established a co-working framework and got a few nice little recordings of sections.”
Read more in these page on the build-up to the New Music Biennial in the coming months, and look back to how the story first broke earlier in the year: http://www.marlbank.net/news/598-first-new-music-biennial-commissions-unveiled Piers Hellawell, pictured