About
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Research
Research interests
- Performance lectures
- Polytonality
- Instrumental music with recognisable recorded sound
- Short form composition
- Music with video
Current research
I am currently working on the following projects.
Explorations in Polytonality and Other Musical Wonders is a series of compositions I began in 2020. Each volume in the series features a suite of pieces. Each piece investigates a technical approach within music composition (e.g., polytonality, metric modulations); historical textures (e.g., organum, heterophony); and historical forms (e.g. rondo, round). The project investigates new potentialities for these techniques, textures, and forms, with particular focus on approaches out of circulation within contemporary music making.
Made in collaboration with visual artist Laura Spark, Hey Hey It’s Tuesday, an imaginary variety show for film and love percussionists. There is no host but a trio of live percussionists accompanies the audience through the screening. The montage of acts includes the young and the old, amateur and professional, intentional and unintentional, human and blowhole. Speak Percussion, Hey Hey's very own house band, intermingle with the vaudeville acts to heighten and disrupt. While the sense of ‘when’ is indefinite, the ‘where’ is most definitely Australian TV.
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Research interests
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Current research
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Research projects
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Publications
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Supervision
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Teaching
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Biography
Matthew Shlomowitz is a composer of music and performance pieces. In recent years he has written Glücklich, Glücklich, Freude, Freude for keyboardist Mark Knoop and the SWR Symphonieorchester (for 2019 Donaueschinger Musiktage), and Graveyard Slot (with guest appearance) for Ensemble Nikel. In 2017, his opera Electric Dreams was produced by Kunstuniversität Graz in cooperation with ORF Musikprotokoll, as winner of the Johann Joseph Fux Opera Composition. The Norwegian Ensemble asamasimasa released a CD of his works on the all that dust label.
Matthew has a number of compositional projects. Letter Pieces are open score works combining physical action and music. The pieces in his Popular Contexts series combine recognisable recordings with instrumental music. He has made a number of performance-lecture works addressing aesthetic issues, such as Lecture About Bad Music. In 2020 he started on a new series titled Explorations in Polytonality and other Musical Wonders; the first volume is a set of piano pieces for Mark Knoop (released on Bandcamp), and the second is for the Apsara recorder trio.
Matthew co-directs the new music group Plus Minus, and runs a podcast called Soundmaking with Håkon Stene. He has taught on the Tzlil Meudcan Summer Course, Ensemble Offspring Hatched Academy and Luxembourg Composition Academy, and has written articles, such as "The Automaton Approach" (MusikTexte) and "Where Are We Now?" (Tempo).
At University of Southampton Matthew teaches composition across undergraduate, masters and PhD programmes, and also offers an undergraduate Humanities wide module called From Teddy Boys to Drag Queens: Music and Subculture.
Prizes
- Johann-Joseph-Fux-Opernkomposition prize by Land Steiermark. (2015)
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Prizes
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