bloom is a studio album project by Will Dutta. Launched in October 2017, the album heralded a new approach to the format: many-shaped, open-ended and evolving.

The beating heart of bloom is the record that features collaborations with electronic legends Plaid, Friendly Fires frontman Ed Macfarlane and composer Max de Wardener. Out of this comes a live show devised by the award-winning creative agency Treatment Studio, and described by audiences as ‘hypnotic’, ‘compelling’ and ‘engulfing’.

Explore the essential ideas, research and context as the work grows at bloomworks.art

Interact. Remix. And listen again.

Three of the most performed viola sonatas in the repertoire were created in the same year, 1919.

To celebrate the centennial, violist Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti initiated The 20/19 Project to support the creation of new viola sonatas by Andrew Norman, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Scott Wollschleger. We presented the UK premieres of these persuasive and individual new works at Turner Contemporary in Margate on 28 November 2019.

In curating the public programme around this special event, we asked composers, filmmakers and contributors to consider the following question: What does the present moment with all its fragmentation, confusion and constriction, look/sound like when seen/heard from above?

The resulting artistic creation stretches across media and time—from new essays in our limited edition 32-page monograph to the moving trio of audio-visual preludes, Three Moments (2019), by composer Ana Quiroga and filmmaker Pedro Maia, that use archive film and field recordings of East Kent.

Our unique interpretation of The 20/19 Project reaches its climax in the concert presentation that features intimate playback and outstanding performance by violist Rosalind Ventris and pianist Will Dutta.

One year later and the world finds itself in extraordinary times. Time Stands Still (2020) is the striking coda to The 20/19 Project. Ana and Pedro combine forces again to render the myriad impressions the mind receives on an extraordinary day in another extraordinary year.

What connects decadence, the social industry and big data together?

We are preoccupied with absolute experience, as played out on social industry platforms every day. Our excess, expressed in vast outpourings of data, invites the question of whether we have arrived at a new decadence.

pleasure gardens is our most ambitious production to date and one that weaves together a number of recurring themes in our work. We have completed the first phase of research and development. This collection of extraordinary samples—a multimedia storyboard of tests, models, text and rendered visual and sonic experiments—forms part of our map for the delivery of this ambitious new production.

The curator of an exhibition discusses an assemblage of work by the artist, Dan Fern. In these experiments, the exterior gradually becomes interior. The scene moves towards a transshifted earthquake of activity, leading into the world of flow—now viscous now torrential.

The following tests are designed to be listened to wearing headphones.

The Curating Composer is a workflow, a teaching resource, a research project, designed to help you learn something new and move you to do it.

For music creators and recreators, the contemporary contexts of the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests necessitate a radical reappraisal of who gets to make culture and mediate cultural production. In just 20 years rapid technological change has shattered professional infrastructure and at the same time we are now facing up to the astonishing scale of digital culture.

The Curating Composer will see you develop your aesthetic leadership and entrepreneurial skills as you contribute towards a new manual for the self-producing artist.

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