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    Artist description
    The ability of musical extremes to push our perceptual boundaries has always been important to me. In composing very short pieces I am trying to evoke a sense of time that is different to the music’s measured duration. It’s about reclaiming space for sounds to exist when space is limited. Look through a microscope. Details grow from previously assumed or unnoticed features to become elements in their own right. In a short piece it should be the same: scale is everything.
    Artist History
    James Saunders studied at the University of Huddersfield and latterly at the Royal Northern College of Music, where his teacher was Anthony Gilbert. His works have been performed at the Huddersfield festival, in Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, notably at Darmstadt, where his ‘Six Pieces’ won the Stipendienpreis at the 1998 Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik. He was one of the selected composers at the 13th International Composers’ Seminar, Boswil, Switzerland in 1997, and subsequently undertook a composition residency at the Kunstlerhaus, Boswil in May 1998. Performers have included the London Sinfonietta, Goldberg Ensemble, Martel Ensemble, Irvine Arditti and Mieko Kanno. Recent work has consisted entirely of extremely short pieces exploring a ‘strange concentrated landscape’ [Christopher Fox, Counterpoints]. These pieces aim to examine the impact of overall duration on a piece and the scalic relationship between timbre, gesture and form. James is currently working on a piece for duo Contour with Tim Parkinson & Annie Parker for performance in London in June, and a piece for Freiburg based ensemble Suono Mobile for performances in Holland and Germany later this year. He is developing a computer assisted learning package to enhance aural awareness, at the University of Huddersfield, where he also lectures. James Saunders' music can be ordered from the British Music Information Centre
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    Huddersfield, West Yorkshire - United Kingdom

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