John Lely

Performances of compositions in: UK, Los Angeles, Russia, Norway, Winnipeg, New Zealand Event: contribution to John White's 78th birthday celebrations, London Award: Francis Chagrin Award, Sound and Music
Award: Composer Curator Programme, Sound and Music
Commission: Assembly, Spitalfields Festival (with support from PRS) Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear 2014 (with support from Sound and Music and the Holst Foundation)
Interview: Classical Music Magazine, July 2014
Bibliography: The Harmonics of Real Strings featured in 'Opening Offer or Contractual Obligation? On the prescriptive function of notation in music today' by Christopher Fox, Tempo July 2014 Events: various events and workshops as part of nu:nord, Oslo, Norway CD release: Anton Lukoszevieze (cello) The Harmonics of Real Strings (another timbre)
Publication: Trio in Experimental Music Yearbook 2014 Lecture: Visiting practitioner, Royal College of Music, London

Performances of compositions in: Australia, Germany, UK, Norway, USA Award: Francis Chagrin Award, Sound and Music Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear 2013 (with support from the Holst Foundation) Residency: nu:nord, nyMusikk, Oslo Commission: During (Tre Voci Cello Ensemble, with support from Britten-Pears Foundation)  

Performances of compositions in: Montreal, UK, Switzerland, Australia, Germany, Norway Residency: Doubles, Bozzini Quartet Composers Kitchen, Montreal, Canada Publication: Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation, co-authored with James Saunders (Continuum/Bloomsbury)
Online: Manfred Werder's 2005(1) with Anne Guthrie, another timbre Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear 2012 (with support from Sound and Music) Event: Works by John Cage, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London Workshop Lecture: Word Event with James Saunders & Michael Duch, Avant Garden, Trondheim, Norway
Workshop Lecture: Word Event with James Saunders, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Performance: Doubles, perf. Bozzini Quartet, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Event: James Tenney's Postal Pieces, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear in Camden (with support from Convention Institut Francais, Diaphonique (Franco British fund for contemporary music), and Reseau en Scene Languedoc-Roussillon)
 

Performances of compositions in: Switzerland, South Carolina, Brno, Australia, Ostrava, UK Events: with Object Collection, Angharad Davies, Jay Rozen, Tim Parkinson & James Saunders, New York Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear 2011, with support from the Holst Foundation Event: Participation at Word Event Conference, Bath Spa University, Corsham Hall Mastering and installation of audio for The Forester's House, Pommereuil, France, a permanent installation by Simon Patterson based on the work of Wilfred Owen Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear in Falmouth 2011, with support from Sound and Music
Workshop: People Processes at The Engine Room, Morley College, London
 

Performances of compositions in: UK, Los Angeles, Switzerland, South Carolina, Chicago, Brussels Events: performances of works by Lely, Cardew & others, with John Tilbury, Howard Skempton & London Sinfonietta, King's Place, London Events: Sol Lewitt Performances, with works by Lely, Gerhard Stabler & Kunsu Shim, Philip Thomas & the Edges Ensemble, Offsite Gallery, Sheffield Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear 2010, with support from the Holst Foundation and PRS for Music Foundation

Performances of compositions in: Norway, Los Angeles, New York City, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Israel Event: LelyWhite, Freedom of the City, London
Event: Selections from Christian Wolff's Exercises with the Post Trio, Michael Parsons & Christian Wolff, Freedom of the City, London
Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear 2009, with support from the Great Britain Sasakawa and Holst Foundations and the RVW Trust
Bibliography: All About the Piano featured in 'A Prescription for Action' by Philip Thomas, Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music, ed. James Saunders Residency: performances, installations, workshops with Pedro Gomez-Egana & Icaro Zorbar, Volt, Bergen, Norway
Event: John Lely Portrait Concert, Ultima, Oslo, Norway
Event: Music by John Lely, Laurence Crane and James Saunders, Experimental Music Workshop, CalArts / the wulf., Los Angeles Curation: Cornelius Cardew's Treatise (6-hour performance) with John Lely, James Saunders, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Tim Parkinson & Lee Ferguson, The Drawing Room, London
Event: performances in sections of Cardew's The Great Learning, ICA, London  

Performances of compositions in: New York, UK, Helsinki and elsewhere. Numerous appearances on Seth Kim-Cohen's UNST radio programme, Resonance FM and improvised music events. Audio production for films with Jayne Parker. Event: The Two Johns, music of John Lely & John White, perf. Material dir. James Saunders, Bath Spa University
Broadcast: Discovering Counterpoint perf. Apartment House, WDR Koln
PhD Composition, Goldsmiths
Event: Desk Bells at LMC Festival, Cafe Oto, London
Events: A British Invasion, concerts and workshops, Helsinki
Event: Mauricio Kagel's Acustica and other works, perf. Apartment House, Soundwaves Festival, Brighton
Event: Precision Sonics perf. Seth Kim Cohen, Matthew Wright & John Lely at Gramophones, Films, Typewriters, curated by Seth Kim-Cohen, Tate Modern, London Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear 2008, with support from the RVW Trust and the Hinrichsen, Holst and Britten-Pears Foundations Event: LelyWhite play in the 'Pataphysical New Year, Book Art Book Shop, London begins Post-Doc Research, Bath Spa University
Event: participant in realisation of Walk by Michael Parsons, Liverpool Street Station, London Event: with Joseph Kudirka & Taylan Susam, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Co-curation: Four concerts of experimental music, with Object Collection, Tim Parkinson, James Saunders, Angharad Davies, New York

Numerous improvised music events around London. Performances of compositions in: New Haven, Czech Republic, UK, New York and elsewhere Event: premiere of Second Symphony (commissioned by Rational Rec), excerpt broadcast BBC4 television Event: with James Saunders and Travis Just, Listen/Space, New York Commission: On the Major Third by Ll. S. Lloyd (Gemini) Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear 2007, with support from the RVW Trust and the Hinrichsen, Holst and Britten-Pears Foundations Event: Aloud/Allowed, curated by Seth Kim-Cohen, with works by Olivia Block & John Lely, Firehouse12, New Haven, Connecticut
Event: Music by Lely & Cardew, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, New York Event: with Taylan Susam & Ben Patterson, Ostrava New Music Days, Czech Republic begins as Tape Archivist, Daphne Oram Collection, Goldsmiths Event: music by Michael Maierhof, Sonic Arts Network Cut and Splice, Huddersfield
Event: concert of works by Susam, Lucier and others, with Tim Parkinson, Taylan Susam & Michael Parsons, Goldsmiths, London

Numerous improvised musics including work with Seymour Wright and Hubbub. Performances of compositions in: UK, Colombia Event: Apartment House play Bristol Arnolfini, works by George Brecht, Dick Higgins, La Monte Young, John Cage, Richard Maxfield, Philip Corner, Malcolm Goldstein, James Tenney, Alvin Lucier, Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Stabler, Nam June Paik, Emmet Williams, Jackson Mac Low.
Event: Mauricio Kagel's Acustica, perf. Apartment House, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge Curation: Rational Fete, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London
Event: contribution to John Tilbury's 70th birthday concert, London
Event: guest appearance with Live Batts!!, John White's 70th birthday concert, Wilton's Music Hall, London Event: James Saunders' #180506, a 3-hour installation, at the Keith Talent Gallery, London
Event: Octet '61 by Cornelius Cardew as part of the Cornelius Cardew - 70th Birthday Anniversary Festival, Cecil Sharpe House, London
Commission: To be or not to only stand and wait, for Aleks Kolkowski's stroh-viol consort, commissioned by Kettle's Yard for Apartment House Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear 2006, with support from the RVW Trust and the Hinrichsen, Holst and Britten-Pears Foundations Event: Mauricio Kagel's Acustica and Tom Phillips' IRMA, perf. Apartment House, Sao Paulo, Brazil Event: premiere of The Harmonics of Real Strings, perf. Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Cutting Edge, London Co-convener: lectures, workshops and performances, Cornelius Cardew Conference, Goldsmiths, London
Commission: All About the Piano (Philip Thomas & James Saunders, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival)
Commission: Second Symphony (Rational Rec)
Broadcast: The Harmonics of Real Strings, perf. Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Hear and Now, BBC Radio 3
Broadcast: All About the Piano, perf. Philip Thomas & James Saunders, Hear and Now, BBC Radio 3
 

Numerous performances with John White (LelyWhite), improvised music (including LMC Festival) in London and beyond. Performances of compositions in: UK, Colombia, Berlin Events: workshops, collaborations & performances, In:Eye I: ATLAS, convened by Pedro Gomez-Egana, Bogota, Colombia (with support from the British Council) Event: Mauricio Kagel's Acustica, perf. Apartment House, LSO St Luke's (broadcast Hear and Now, BBC Radio 3) Curation: Music We'd Like to Hear 2005, with support from the RVW Trust and the Hinrichsen, Holst and Britten-Pears Foundations Event: performance of works by Lely, Lucier, Marshall, White and others, performed by Angharad Davies, Seth Kim-Cohen, John Lely, Alvin Lucier, Michael Rodgers, Ian Stonehouse, James Saunders, Ross Parfitt, Tim Parkinson & John White, Open Sound Systems curated by Seth Kim-Cohen, Tate Modern, London CD release: Launch of the Red Bird, edition of 75 Events: performances & workshops, with Daniel Kottir and Object Collection, Berlin
Events: performance of works by Morton Feldman, John Lely, Sebastian Lexer, John White & Christian Wolff, Notation and Improvisation Conference, Goldsmiths, London

Numerous improvised musics with John White (LelyWhite), The World Book, 9! and others, in London and around UK. Several curated concerts at Goldsmiths. Performances of compositions in: UK, Germany Event: performance of Christian Wolff Burdocks and Looking North, John Cage Musicircus, Barbican, London Commission: Cycling in [county/region of performance], Rhodri Davies (with support from PRS) Commission: installation at Welborne Church, Welborne Festival, Norfolk Event: performance of Christian Wolff's Changing the System, St Giles, London  

Private composition study with Michael Parsons. Several curated concerts at Goldsmiths. Various improvised musics in London, Colchester & on Resonance FM. Performances of compositions in: UK, Belgium, Berlin CD release: 9!: none(-t) (Matchless)
Commission: E for Apartment House, MaerzMusik, Berliner Festspiel, Berlin Event: John White's C-Major Machine (full 90-minute version) with Tim Parkinson, Catherine Kontz, Alex James, Goldsmiths, London
Event: Music by Wandelweiser composers including Manfred Werder, Jurg Frey, perf. with Tim Parkinson and Henri Vaxby, Goldsmiths, London
 

Private composition study with Michael Parsons. Various improvised musics, including The World Book, and other performances at Interlace & Resonance FM. Performances of compositions in: Purcell Room SBC, Cologne, Schloss Solitude, Aldeburgh Festival and around London. Event: with Anton Lukoszevieze & Angharad Davies, Free Love, Conway Hall, London Event: solo at Interlace, Goldsmiths, London
Event: with Denis Dubotsev & Eddie Prevost, First Aid, Covent Garden, London Event: with Ami Yoshida, Utah Kawasaki, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Atsuhiro Ito & Seymour Wright, Off Site, Tokyo, Japan Event: Apartment House play Cornelius Cardew's Schooltime Compositions, NU marathon, Block Museum, Chicago, USA
Event: The Organ at Stuttgart, perf. Jennifer Walshe and Andrew Hamilton, Schloss Solitude, Germany Event: Apartment House play Cage, Lely, Fox - Pumphouse, Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk
Event: Fall in the fresh lap of the cloudy messenger, Apartment House are Highly Strung, Conway Hall, London
Event: Alvin Lucier's Music on a Long Thin Wire as part of Apartment House are Highly Strung, Conway Hall, London
Event: Never Again, perf. Apartment House, Cologne (broadcast WDR) Broadcast: with John White - LelyWhite Live!! on Resonance FM, Denmark Street Studio, London
Event: Never Again, perf. John Lely & Tania Chen, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London
Event: performance of works by John Cage, James Saunders, Chris Newman, BMIC Cutting Edge, Theed Street, London
Event: Fall in the fresh lap of the cloudy messenger, perf. Apartment House, Ultima, Oslo
 

Private composition study with Michael Parsons. Various improvised musics in London. Event: Alex James, Jamie Coleman, John Lely, Seymour Wright, Opening performance of Freedom of the City, Conway Hall, London
Event: Charaoui/Lely/Wright, Freedom of the City, Conway Hall, London
Event: Charaoui/Lely/Wright with Eddie Prevost, Derby Jazz, Derby
Event: Charaoui/Lely/Wright, Eddie Prevost & Derek Bailey, Purcell Room, SBC, London
Direction: John Cage's Three Walks: A Londonese Circus on Dark Lanthorns (with Iain Sinclair), Goldsmiths, London CD release: Charaoui/Lely/Wright, Seventh of May 2001 (Matchless)
Event: Apartment House play Cornelius Cardew's Schooltime Compositions, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival  

Numerous improvised concerts, and regular attendance at Eddie Prevost's workshop. Participation in Cardew's The Great Learning at Union Chapel and full performance near Leipzig.
CD release: Yann Charaoui, John Lely, Seymour Wright: 396 (Matchless)  

Studies with Roger Redgate, John Tilbury & Dave Smith at Goldsmiths. Numerous performances and curated events at Goldsmiths, including works by La Monte Young, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cornelius Cardew, Louis Andriessen, Terry Riley, Don Cherry, John Cage.