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.
Coffey Project
I've begun a project working with Maria Johnston 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.
Update: Maria Johnston's work has just been published in a new book of essays on Brian Coffey's work, Amazon link 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
Clockwise Counter-Clockwise
Xenia Pestova (toy piano)
10th Feb 2010, Territoirs inexplorées @Interstice, 242 Young (Peel & Wellington), Montréal, QC, 8pm, $5-7
Music in Two Dimensions no.1
Metapraxis Ensemble (piano quartet)
19th Feb 2010, London, The Space, 8pm
Marionettes
Crash Ensemble (piano and live electronics with Moogbar sensor)
"Free State V" Friday 5 March, 2010, TBA, Dublin, Ireland
We do the same things, but I'm always different
Iain Harrison and Markus Wenninger (alto sax)
20th Mar 2010, Process Festival, Berlin
Recent
Music in Two Dimensions II
(for FOCAM (Lauren Redhead (organ) and Kat Bouch (Bsn))
2nd Dec 2009, Leeds, Clothworkers Hall
Music in Two Dimensions I
(for Metapraxis Ensemble (piano quartet))
26th Nov 2009, London
Tape part for Bryn Harrison's Surface Forms (repeating)
26th Nov 2009, Huddersfield, St Paul's Hall
Marx
(for Trio Scordatura - Mezzo, synth, viola d'amore)
TBC 17 July 2009, Berlin, venue TBC
Micro (click for details and media)
(for improvisors, actors, and large loudspeaker array; 30mins)
23 June 2009, WofS 2009, the Week of Speakers at the University of Huddersfield Music dept.
Hibberts Doublets
(for Max/MSP and large loudspeaker array; 40mins)
22 June 2009, WofS 2009, the Week of Speakers at the University of Huddersfield Music dept.
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.
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)
