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Thomas Butler: composer
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My Life in Ventriloquism. Video piece featuring string quartet. Replaceable Parts for the Irreplaceable You. Ensemble, soundtrack and video. Six Maps of a Fragile Landscape. Struction (how I attempted to get the thoughts in my head into…. The Joy of Shipwrecks.
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Thomas Butler: Replaceable Parts for the Irreplaceable You
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Replaceable Parts for the Irreplaceable You. Concert work for ensemble, soundtrack and video. Instrumentation: various instrumentations, with soundtrack and video. Year: 2013, rev. 2014. Performances in August 2014 were supported by the Made in Scotland Showcase and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Replaceable Parts for the Irreplaceable You. Is it possible to keep our human identity in an era dominated by the machine? Replaceable Parts for the Irreplaceable You.
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Thomas Butler: about
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Thomas Butler is a composer and producer based in Glasgow. He sees the act of composition as the creation of a performance in its entirety, not simply the writing of dots on a page. This expanded approach to composition sees many of his pieces contain extra-musical elements such as video, still images, lighting effects and theatrical gestures, which are used to explore recurring themes of technology, authority and illusion. Manages the peer-reviewed Scottish Journal of Performance. Impressive. a know...
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Thomas Butler: Nightmusic
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Concert work for solo violin. The audioplayer is AWOL. 5th May 2014, Recital Room, City Halls, Glasgow; Roland Roberts. 27th April 2012, RCS, Glasgow; Darragh Morgan.
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Thomas Butler: events
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Saturday 16th April 2016 13:00. Loch Shiel Spring Festival 2016. Acharacle Parish Church, Acharacle. 10/ 5. Six Maps of a Fragile Landscape. And works by David Fennessy, Duncan Strachan, James MacMillan, Sally Beamish and more. Thursday 10th December 2015 13:15. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Free but ticketed. Is a participatory workshop on music and protest. Details and tickets. Saturday 24th October 2015 13:00. ACT Aberdeen, 33 King Street, Aberdeen. Free. You Can't Get There From Here. The Ung...
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Thomas Butler: His Master's Voice
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Collaborative installation with Kate V. Robertson. 3-channel tape with sculpture. A temporary installation of a collaborative project between visual artist Kate V. Robertson. And composer Thomas Butler. The work is an exploration into a shared interest in themes of broadcast and repetition, using sculpture and audio. The audioplayer is AWOL. 26th July 2008, 16 Trongate, Glasgow.
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Thomas Butler: blog
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I'LL CADENCE WHEN I DIE! Scottish Journal of Performance. Preview of Lament from Robert Irvine’s new CD. For the next 29 days, you can catch a preview of a short piece of mine, Lament. From Robert Irvine’s new Delphian CD Songs and Lullabies: new works for solo cello. Courtesy of BBC Radio 3’s Record Review programme. Those in the UK can listen to the programme on iPlayer. Tags: BBC Radio 3. I am grateful for the support of many colleagues at the RCS, particularly Bethany Whiteside and Ben Fletcher-Watso...
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Thomas Butler: Elbow Room
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Concert work for ensemble, video and location recordings. Instrumentation: Clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), electric guitar, percussion (1 player: vibraphone, glockenspiel, drum kit, sample pads), synthesizer, violin and cello (all amplified) with video, location recordings and lighting. Commissioned by Sound and Music and Red Note Ensemble. 1949, directed by Erica Masters) and Glasgow 1980. 1971, directed by Oscar Marzaroli) in addition to new footage filmed in 2014.
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Thomas Butler: Espial
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Video piece featuring string quartet. Fixed media (video and stereo sound). Performed by the Astrid String Quartet:. Elanor Gunn, violin I. Ula Kinderyte, violin II. Sarah Leonard, viola. Julia Astrid Wagner, cello. Filmed by Laurie Irvine and Daniel Gil Fresneda. Supported by the Research Degrees Committee of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 30th April 2014, RCS, Glasgow.
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Thomas Butler: The Joy of Shipwrecks
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The Joy of Shipwrecks. Three miniatures for solo harp on poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti. I Half Asleep: I am witnessing the violation of the night. II Nostalgia: Over Paris there thickens / a sombre colour / of grief. III The Rivers: These are my rivers / numbered in the Isonzo my life appears / a corolla / of darkness. These extracts from the poems are translated by Heather Scott. The audioplayer is AWOL. 20th March 2015, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Nana Sotirova.
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