Making precise sonic utopias - with instruments, improvisation, electrical sounds and bits of dirty stuff from the kitchen Event
- Time:
- 16:00
- Date:
- 16 November 2022
- Venue:
- This event will take place on Microsoft Teams
For more information regarding this event, please email Matthew Shlomowitz at m.shlomowitz@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
The music department is delighted to welcome composer Alex Paxton for an online session in our research seminar series. Alex will show some of his recent work and try to show something about what instincts he followed to make it.
“We’re stuck in the metaphor of words and its the abstract sensation that connects everything. My feeling is that art can go straight to the ball of abstract sensation that is in the centre of myself. It Bypasses words. That is what is real.” Alex Paxton interviewed by Andy Ingamells.
Speaker Information
Alex Paxton is a composer and improvising-trombonist based in the UK.
"A riotous overabundance of love and rage…an extraordinary experience” The Wire . He is a recipient of an Ivor Novello Award, RPS Composition Prize, 9th International Composition Seminar with EM, Dankworth Jazz Prize, Leverhume Art Prize, Harriet Cohen Award, as well as represented in the Orchestral section of the ISCM and Gaudeamus Prize 2022. He is a commissioned contributor to John Zorn’s Arcana X 2021.
Portrait albums released to critical acclaim to date: MUSIC for BOSCH PEOPLE in 2021, ILOLLI-POP & HAPPY MUSIC for ORCHESTRA 2023. His recordings are published by labels including Birmingham Record Company, NMC, Delphian, Non-classical, Listen Pony, Everest records. “This is the most joyous sound I’ve heard in ages!” New York Times.
He has performed his music as a soloist with leading orchestras: Ensemble Modern, Asko Schöenberg Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra , Royal National Scottish Orchestra & Ensemble x.y. Further works include pieces for, London Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Klang, Riot Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, Wigmore Hall, Explore ensemble, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kammer Klang, BSO, Psappa, BBCproms, NYO and NYJO.
Alex’s music is published by Ricordi and he was a BBC Music Magazine Ivor Novello Composer Awards Winner in 2021.