News: New website under construction!
The site is still due an overhaul, I started work on my PhD thesis as a parallel doc and website but abandoned this, the beginnings are online here, I may come back to this.
I have however included my full PhD here as a webpage. Please note that the html conversion was automated so the layout is a mess and the images are not included, this is just a stopgap until I have the time to do the markup by hand and integrate the full text into the website above. If you want the pdf then drop me an email.
Audio & Scores | Biography and Work | Performances
Scott Mc Laughlin is a composer based at the University of Huddersfield where he has just finished his PhD studies under the supervision of Bryn Harrison and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: PhD awarded Feb.09
Most of my work is concerned with 'frequencial harmony' and the proliferation/evolution of inharmonic spectra. Currently I am investigating ways of using cellular automata and similar techniques as proliferative methods.
I am also interested in works which use open forms or which can be infintely extended (while retaining their identity): 'game' pieces text pieces and music written on principles/rules rather than brute force notation.
I've started a project working with a poetry scholar to set the work of Irish poet Brian Coffey as sound; using the sonorous qualites of of the poetry as the basis of musical composition. Three pieces have been done so far, see here.
New: work on this project stalled last year but I've just taken up the principle again in another solo violin piece wherein Amy Whitwam set the challenge of writing a piece which responded to a given poem. Reacting with music to 'meaning' of the words is beyond my capabilities so again I take the sound of the words as my jumping off point. 'Three Mappings of Words' treats the words in three different ways: the words in the score are not to be spoken and are just a guide to the speech rhythm.
Upcoming
Marx
(for Trio Scordatura - Mezzo, synth, viola d'amore)
TBC 17 July 2009, Berlin, venue TBC
Whitewater
(for solo wind instrument and Max/MSP)
9 March - 3 May 2009, Eric Honour will be touring this piece in Europe and the USA.
Recent
Vertices (for clarinet with Gamelan trio)
Sunday, 19 April 2009: To be premiered by Gong Agenda with Jonathan Sage at Ergodos Festival 2009, Sunday, 19 April 2009 / 8.30pm Sharp / 10/6-Euro / The National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2
Marx
(for Trio Scordatura - Mezzo, synth, viola d'amore)
7 March 2009, UK Microfest 3 (Walton-on-Thames)
16 December 2008, Muziekcentrum de Badcuyp, Amsterdam
October 25 2008, TRANSIT Festival, Leuven,
Venn Feynmann Gestalt
(for microblech - microtonal brass trio: tr, tr, hrn)
23 May 2009, performed by microblech in Cologne
7 March 2009, premiered by microblech at UK Microfest 3 (Walton-on-Thames)
Intra-
(for Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin) and David Flynn (prepared guitar)
17 March 2009, performed in Cluj, Romania
7 March 2009, premiered by microblech at UK Microfest 3 (Walton-on-Thames)
