We are extremely pleased to announce the next Composer-Performer Platform will be hosted by Nottingham-based Latin-American/Cuban band, Mas Y Mas, at Lincoln Drill Hall on Tuesday 22nd November at 7:00pm.

We particularly excited about this event as Mas Y Mas are fronted by Rikki Thomas Martinez who is also a member of Firebird's Artist Association. To find our more about Rikki and Mas Y Mas - as well as a video of the band in action - follow this link. 

A few months ago, just before the first Composer-Performer Platform in Derby, our Future Jobs Fund in-house graphic designer, Ross Taylor, produced a fantastic new banner for KOMPOSIT. We're a bit overdue getting it up on the site, but at last here it is. 

For more on Ross's work for us, check out  his designs for our new marketing materials, for the Brailsford project and the annual report.

Bob Dickinson  and Mario Gazi

The Drill Hall, Lincoln, 17th June 2011, 7:00pm 

The works to be performed at this platform will include extracts from ‘A Lincoln Piano Book’, sparsely populated pieces which explore concepts of tonality and resonance. Alongside these pieces will be a new set of songs composed collaboratively with Mario Gazi. These songs form part of an ongoing collection, ‘Not a National Songbook’ and experiment with free-form text-setting contrasting with more repetitive ‘fixed’ elements.

Komposit Composer Platforms are a new initiative designed to showcase the existing work of our composers that has been developed independently from the main Komposit project. Every composer needs to hear their music played live, and whilst we can’t offer one of our structured workshop environments to everyone, we feel it is important to offer as many showcase opportunities as possible to composers able to present their own developing work.

Bob worked briefly with 'Magazine' in the late seventies as keyboardist, contributing the song, 'Motorcade', to their first album, 'Real Life'. This followed work with a number of European avant garde composers including Dieter Salbert and Jean Yves Bosseur, alongside projects with 'Cabaret Voltaire' and Richard Witts (of 'The Passage'). In the eighties, he devoted his energies to educational work alongside collaborative projects with dancers and artists from other disciplines. The nineties witnessed an increasing involvement and interest in music, ritual and nature, culminating in the publication of 'Music and the Earth Spirit' by Capall Bann in 2001. In recent years he has composed pieces for 10-string classical guitar and chamber ensemble which have been performed in South Africa by Viktor Van Niekerk and in Canada by the Vancouver Miniaturist Ensemble. An album of recent work, 'Logic, Beauty and Chaos', has been released on the JNN netlabel based in the Netherlands. He has recently completed a chamber work, 'Rendition', for the Komposit orchestra (released as an interactive remix on the Fourier Transform label) and a set of songs, 'Pictures of a floating world' premiered by Siobhan Mooney and Ezra Williams at Schotts Music, London, January, 2010. Other recent projects include 'Whirl-a-gig' for orchestra and 'Minium 1-5' for Tenor Recorder, Baroque Cello and Harpsichord (written for members of the Red Note Ensemble) and premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, March 2011. A new work for COMA East Midlands is planned for their 2011-12 season.

For further information check out his website at: www.bobdickinson.org

Mario has worked as a performer of contemporary music since the early eighties.As both songwriter and performer he has straddled many different areas of musicranging from Jazz through to World Music. Educational projects with which he has been involved in recent years include collaborative dance projects bringing together musicians from differentmusical disciplines with contemporary dancers in addition to ‘fusion’ projects working with rock and jazz musicians. Other large-scale projects include the creation of an alternative musical incorporating elements of physical theatre,contemporary dance and rock music which was premiered at the Plowright Theatrein Scunthorpe in 2009. Extracts from this work were also performed at The Doncaster Dome. He cites his  influences as ranging from contemporary jazz through minimalism to the American ‘Beat’ poetry of Ginsberg and Snyder.

Our KOMPOSIT Project Director, Jo Freya, is beginning an experiment to explore how a virtual orchestra can be created online.

In this first version of this experiment, you can take part by downloading the following sound files..... recording your own tracks over the top and sending them back to Jo who will mix all the contributions down. 

Sound Files

(to save on your computer, right-click and choose "save link as..." or similar option)

i. The melody

ii. The accompaniment

And if you want a copy of the notation - click here.

When you've got something that you like, email your track as an mp3 or similar back to Jo at:  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  

You can follow the evolution of the process more closely on Jo's Facebook page here. 

The first audio tracks from KOMPOSIT have been recorded.

Click on the links below for music from Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Bob Dickinson.

Cheryl Frances Hoad

Bob Dickinson

The evaluation of the pilot is now available.

With the pilot nearing completion, KOMPOSIT is now looking to the future and seeking new funding, supporters and interested parties.

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