MyMuso

Instrument / Profession

Composer/sound artist, producer and concept director

Education

Phillip was selected as the prestigious “Music Creator in Residence” at the London College of Fashion, a flagship post supported by the PRS Foundation exploring the relationship between sound and fashion. Phillip held the Constant & Kit Lambert Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music, London. June 2006 one-month Composition & Computer Music Program at IRCAM in Paris. Residency with Glasgow’s Theatre Cryptic as part of spnm’s “Music for Theatre” project in March 2006. Awarded the Uchida Fellowship 2004-5 by the Japan Foundation; a scholarship awarded to one artist from Europe for specialised study in Japan. Phillip researched the westernisation process of gagaku (traditional Japanese court music) September 2002 – July 2004 MMus in Composition studying with Julian Anderson, graduating with Distinction. Dissertation on Ligeti’s Third Book of Piano Etudes. July 2002 ‘New Music New Media’ course at the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme. July 2001 ’Contemporary Composition’ course at the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme. September 1998 – July 2002 BMus (Hons) in Composition studying with Julian Anderson graduating with a first class honours.

Orchestras / Ensembles

Highlighted musical Projects in the last year include: * Voices of the Asylum for voices, human beatbox, electronics, fashion and space at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, including a sound installation for Butoh dancers encased in large glass suspended cubes. * Ghost for electronics, a projection across Brentwaters Airbase at midnight, closed the “Faster than Sound” Festival, commissioned by the Aldeburgh Festival 2007 * More Light for theatre. Music for the National Theatre, London. Closing night of the Connections Festival 2007. * Black & White for 4 Taiko drummers, electronics, fashion and architecture commissioned by the City of London Festival. * Standing Water for 12 players commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra's “Music of Today” series at the Southbank, London * Stilled... for Piano Quartet, premiered by the Schubert Ensemble in Birmingham * Clocked for two pianos commissioned by the Yukawa-Chan Piano Duo for the Wigmore Hall, London and L’Auditori, Barcelona. * Arrangements of Michael Nyman for his new piano duo album. * Two Reflections on Milton for solo piano performed by Christine Yoshikawa will be released on CD late 2007(USA). * Tread Softly for 4 players. Commissioned by the Takefu International Music Festival, Japan, August 2007. * one minute wonders CD release of Phillip’s new work “Chime” for solo piano commissioned for Clive Williamson. * arrive, depart international exhibition featuring artists from the U.K., the U.S., Germany and Japan exploring possible causes the impact of the phenomenon that there seem to be no limits in the acceleration of communications and that more and more people in the global village seem to be constantly on the move. * Japonica, an installation of London and Tokyo fashion designers on the HMS President, Victoria Embankment, River Thames, London. Electronic score in 8 channels.

Influences

The journey of a project and all that it touches, peeling back the layers of understanding and breaking the membrane of experience and interaction

Interests

zen, music, art, theatre, sound, architecture, fashion, photography, technology, experimentation, dance, film and space... God loads... depends on the day...

Favourite Music

Ligeti, bjork, jamie lidell, gagaku, squarepusher, shomyo, beardyman, bach, debussy, ravel, diamanda galas, ben folds five, stravinksy, monk, takemitsu...oh and ultimately silence.. Need that to write...