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ABOUT Thomas Meadowcroft makes orchestral and chamber music for the concert hall, as well as music for theater and radio. GOINGS ON 20210408 performance  Cradleswill be performed by Ayona Kataoka and Ian David Rosenbaum at the Lincoln Center NYC, as part of 'New Milestones' chamber music series. MORE INFO 20201208 live stream  A conversation with Lara Pellegrinelli and members of the ensemble 'Yarn/Wire', as part of the ensemble's online series, 'Feedback'. MORE INFO 20201116 broadcast  The radiophonic piece, Moving Homes will be broadcast on 'Klangkunst', Deutschlandradiokultur at 0:05am CET. MORE INFO Just sayin'. What you need is the emptiness of the object, as expressed, in sound. As for the thing in and of itself: well, that's just terrifying." 20201102 broadcast  Walkman Antiquarian, performed by Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain-NEC, will be broadcast on RTS Radio CH. MORE INFO 20201027 broadcast Plain Moving Landfill, performed by Eugene Ughetti, will be broadcast on RTP Radio, PT. MORE INFO 20201024 performance  Walkman Antiquarian (piano, sampler and percussion) will be performed by Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain-NEC at the 'Festival les Amplitudes', La Chaux-de-Fonds CH. MORE INFO 20201024 broadcast The radiophonic piece, Moving Homes will be broadcast 'WDR 3 Open Sounds' at 11pm CET. MORE INFO from which, as a pretext to returning to this order, the state can cut basic services, so, ah, grabbed the kids, but left the dogs, hey." 20201004 performance  More Beautiful Discourse, for string trio and organ, will be premiered by 'ensemble recherche' at FORUM Merzhausen, Freiburg DE. MORE INFO 20200921 broadcast 'Percussion Works', on MODE, will be featured on '3 Jetzt', on WDR Radio DE. MORE INFO 20200912 performance  As part of the Tempo Reale Festival 2020, Simone Beneventi will perform Plain Moving Landfilll at Parco di Villa Strozzi, Florence IT. MORE INFO 20200731 record release  A recording of March Static (for flutes and percussion, with drumlines by Eugene Ughetti and flutes by Claire Chase), alongside works by Anthony Pateras, James Rushford, Liza Lim, Robin Fox, and Alexander Garsden, will be released on Room40 records. MORE INFO 20200625 record release  Works for percussion, recorded by 'Speak Percussion', will be released on MODE records. MORE INFO 20200116 performance Cradles will be performed at the Lincoln Center NYC, as part of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's 'New Milestones: Electronic Chamber Music in a New Form'. MORE INFO RECORDINGS/WORKS The Great Knot 18:29 for percussion trio Cradles 8:56 for percussion duo with live or prerecorded Wurlitzer electric piano Plain Moving Landfill 12:59 for percussion solo Home Organs 13:52 for six percussionists with: Speak Percussion (Eugene Ughetti, Leah Scholes, Matthias Schack-Arnott, John Arcaro, Laura Holian, Matthew Horsley, Peter Neville) MODE RECORDS MORE INFO for orchestra with: South West German Radio Orchestra (cond. Ilan Volkov) commissioned by South West German Radio, with support from the Australia Council of the Arts 2017 "...cheap entertainment music. And then when somebody shows up like a village idiot, whose The News in Music is a US-American modelled news music strung together in a Hollywood-like manner, then it hails in a concert of 'boos'. (Badische Zeitung) "His collage of film music soundtracks and news jingles is really super dull." (Bavarian Radio Classic) "If (the composer) had sold each individual scrap to television companies, he would be a millionaire." (Musiktexte) "A strange brew, that hardly gives satirical sharpness to worldly turmoil, so that the ending itself only looks just as bad in contrast." (Neue Musik Zeitung) "A scrawled, film music lament about the phenomenon of fake news... more critical radio play than composition." (Neue Zuercher Zeitung) "The piece still fits into the trend of new accessibility." (Osnabruecker Zeitung) "Would it not have been better to make a radio piece out of it? After five minutes everybody gets it. What comes in the next fifteen minutes afterwards is diffident annoyance." (Schweizer Musikzeitung) "It's a scandal that not more people were outraged." (Stuttgarter Zeitung) MORE INFO for piano, sampler and percussion with: Yarn/Wire (Laura Barger, Ning Yu, Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg) commissioned by Yarn/Wire 2013  MORE INFO |