Curating
Music We'd Like to Hear is a concert series which I co-founded in 2005 with fellow composers Tim Parkinson & Markus Trunk.
Our main series happens across three weeks every summer. We also present occasional one-off concerts in London and elsewhere.
We aim to offer a space for practitioners and listeners to convene in a spirit of propagation and appreciation. Our curatorial choices are closely allied with our individual practices, reflecting our mutual sense of curiosity and our desire to share this work with our community.
Listening to Music We'd Like to Hear 2017, photograph by Rick Pushinsky
The music chosen has often never been performed before in Britain, or is seldom programmed in any other concerts. This is because the work is either completely new or unknown, or because it is older work that has been forgotten, or because it falls into the category of experimental work which does not easily fit into other programming.
In her recent book, Experimental Music Since 1970, writer Jennie Gottschalk reflects on the role the series plays in the international experimental music scene:
The series has become a central hub of a community that centers in London but overlaps with other near and distant localities, both in programming and in the visitors drawn to it.
Music We'd Like to Hear