As I haven’t shared it here before, here’s a little excerpt of my film/album, A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of time, shortlisted for an Ivor Novello Award at this year’s Ivor’s Classical Awards.

More info (and the entire film): benjamintassie.com/a-ladder-is-...

Delighted to say that my project ‘A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time’ has been shortlisted for an Ivor Novello Award for ‘Best Sound-art’ in this years The Ivor’s Classical awards ivorsacademy.com/awards/the-i...

For the (admittedly, vanishingly small number of) people for whom this might be of interest, my university has now uploaded my PhD thesis, together with the recordings and films www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/15895/

Another clip, here Tom (the harpsichordist) is gradually bringing in the Spectral processing using a combination of a sewing machine pedal (!) and pressure sensors on the keys.

Here’s a short video from my ‘Augmented Harpsichord’ workshop at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama earlier this week. I’m exploring the technological augmentation of a virginal using Arduino circuits, sensors, Spectral processing, & more.

And today, post-graduate teaching starts again. Looking forward to sharing some terrific music in my
master’s module ‘Contemporary Music Concepts and Practices’, including pieces by Liza Lim, Sarah Davachi, Phil Venables, Elaine Michener, & many more!

First week back of the new academic year at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Sharing all this gorgeous music with the second year undergraduate composers over the coming weeks 🍃🕊️