Welcome to Sunday Dance Music, an independent record company based in North Wales UK. The current aim of Sunday Dance is to promote and distribute the music of English composer and musician, Richard Garrett.
Sunday Dance is also home to nwdlbots (pronounced noodlebots), a suite of generative music devices for Ableton Live, available for download on this site.
Richard
“November”: a New York minute for 60×60
My new one minute piece, called “November” has been a given a place in the 60×60 surround sound presentation commissioned by Vox Novus and Harvestworks Digital Artworks Media Center in New York City. 60×60 is a one-hour-long show made by sequencing 60 pre-recorded pieces by 60 different composers, each piece a minute in length or shorter. This particular version will be a 5.1 surround … More…
Blogging
Most of my time these days is given over to writing music for my PhD rather than selling albums on CD, so I’ve decided to change the function of this website somewhat. From now on, I plan to use the site to document both work in progress and earlier work which stand as precursors to my current efforts. This will take the form of … More…
Flute Sketch
Here is the preliminary sketch I made for the flute/electronics piece which is to be played at INTER/actions in Bangor next month. The flute part was generously donated by Sean Goldthorpe and the computer part makes extensive use of the IRCAM Mubu multibuffer.
INTER/Actions
A new piece of mine for Flute and Electronics has been selected for workshopping (if that’s a word) at the INTER/Actions mini-festival and symposium to be held at Bangor University on the 15th /16th March. The flute will be played by Richard Craig and the workshop will be led by composer and sound artist Gilbert Nouno (IRCAM). The workshop will also feature pieces by … More…
“Only Now” at Electroacoustic Wales 7/11/13
My most recent acousmatic piece, “Only Now” will have its premiere as part of the Electroacoustic Wales Concert in Powis Hall, Bangor University on Thursday 7th November at 8:00. The piece features some of my large-scale “sound-groups” realised in Supercollider and will be played back over a 32 speaker surround system. More information at www.pontio.co.uk