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ARTICLES ABOUT MUSIC, METAMODERNISM, autism, and more FOR BLOGS, MAGAZINES, AND print MEDIA
"TOWARDS A MUSICAL METAMODERNISM"
Article for Tempo New Music, Issue #317
July 2026
"Vermeulen and van den Akker, proclaiming that ‘the postmodern years of plenty, pastiche, and parataxis are over’, describe an epistemic shift from postmodernism to metamodernism. I believe we may be seeing a similar shift amongst today’s contemporary music composers, particularly in the UK."
"From our Sounds Promising Young Composers, Part II"
Guest blog post for Salastina
November 2023
"I usually describe my compositional aesthetic as metamodern... what speaks to me the most are its treatment of simultaneous irony and sincerity — being serious while pointing out the impossibility of seriousness — somewhere between hope and cynicism, between “modern” romanticism and “postmodern” apathy."
"PLAYFUL ENTITIES"
Interview with Alex Paxton for VAN Magazine
April 2023
"Play is not just something that children do. To me, this is the essence of us building relationships with each other. If you listen to conversations—or observe behaviours of—people who are close, intimate, and have profound relationships with each other, you couldn’t label it to a specific type of content, or conversational or physical activity. It’s about the spirit of Play inhabiting a relationship between these things."
"Here’s to the Dreamers: Jennifer Walshe, Robin Haigh and the Birth of the Metamodern Composer"
Article for What is Metamodern?
December 2022
"What makes a piece “metamodern”? What techniques would it use, aesthetically – and how could one realize different tropes of metamodernism in an art form as abstract as music, while still conveying its many facets and nuances?"
"AN INFUSION OF ESSENCE"
Feature on artist collective Tangram for VAN Magazine
November 2022
“What Tangram does is allow us to unlock parts of ourselves which we otherwise might have locked away at some point; allow us to ponder on what parts of ourselves we might be hiding to stay safe. We’ve learned how to curate a version of ourselves, and Tangram is allowing me to interrogate that.”
"The Autistic Experience and Navigating the Contemporary Music Industry"
Guest article for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Commissioned as part of their 'Casting Light' series
December 2021
“I’ve also experienced a fear of needing to “market” being autistic in a way that doesn’t alienate a neurotypical audience. It’s no surprise that many autistic people have become accustomed to masking their autistic traits in neurotypical situations — whether that’s a conscious decision or through years of conditioning — in an attempt to blend into their respective fields of society, despite the emotional fortitude required to do so.”
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