I was meant to be at the Southbank Centre on Sunday for the London Sinfonietta's 'deconstruction' and performance of Boulez's marvellous ...explosante-fixe ... On-stage conversations, leather seats and Boulezian orchestration at its most refined. Full luxury new music and all that. Unfortunately, a family football injury scuppered my afternoon and sent the rest of the day's plans out of whack. I made do instead with the…

Apologies for the long silence. Intending to do better in the immediate future.

Stevie Chick celebrates what might be the best Sonic Youth album of them all plus the influence of Nirvana and Neil Young

It was lovely to attend last night the launch of Liza Lim's new disc for NMC records (and of Zoë Martlew's forthcoming debut, Album Z). I've reviewed String Creatures for an upcoming issue of Nutida musik in Sweden, so those who are really keen can read my initial thoughts on the album there. But last night I realised too that not only is this a collection of really great music (the magnificent title work for string quartet; solos for cello and bass, …

until between is a project about belonging, identity, and language — explored through new music and poetry, and created in close collaboration with composers Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Ashkan Behzadi, and ...