http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Edward Caine News en http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Enjoy this clip of me throat singing to an amused cameraman! Also includes selections from interviews by fellow SPNM Composers! click here to watch the video Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:21:31 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ A while ago I started work on a series of "transcriptions" of pieces by Lassus and Frescobaldi for piano duet so that I could play them with a friend. I have just recently finished the transcriptions and am publishing them as a book on Scotchsnap. Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:22:56 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ As a piece of fun I've written a piece for solo piano called Etude "Progressional". The piece is incredibly difficult and aimed at the Ian Pace school of performers. As a taster, here is the program note: "This piece is insanely difficult. The idea behind it is based on Ligeti's notion of a non-s Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:11:26 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I've re-written some of the material from my Piano and String Quartet piece "[...] simplest of all tongues" as a series of piano miniatures, and it should be available to download from scotchsnap soon. Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:16:16 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Theme and Variations for Solo 'Cello was commissioned by Laura Boardman and is an homage to J.S Bach. I enjoyed very much writing this piece and it will hopefully be performed, if not in late music concert series then by some other cellist! It should be available on scotchsnap soon. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:45:10 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Online music publisher scotchsnap.com have recently offered to publish some of my works! Scotchsnap specialise in composers from Scotland and are based in Munlochy, on the Black Isle. I was brought up in Cromarty, another small village on the Black Isle. Scotchsnap also publish the music of John Bev Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:28:00 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I recently took part in a residency project at the University of York Music Department with the Black Hair Contemporary Music Ensemble. This was a 3-4 week project with a number of postgraduate composers and performers that resulted in a short ad hoc concert of new, mainly improvised works. Amon Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:46:18 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I now have a new "Piano" section to the website. To view this and any links, click the plus sign at the bottom left of the page and if you have javascript turned on a menu will appear. Alternatively Click Here to view the menu. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:26:18 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I will be reading my paper "The use of found material in Sciarrino's Lucie mie traditrici and my own Madrigali in Twelve Parts for Three Trombones" at the "Nothing new? Understanding newness in medieval and contemporary music" that will be happening on the 25-26th April next year. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:11:53 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Please visit my new space on SPNM. From now on the SPNM link at the top of my webpage will also link to this page. http://www.spnm.org.uk/?page=shortlist/composer.html&id=300 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:29:28 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ After a nice interview on Wednesday I was offered the part-time job of assistant at the University of York Music Press (www.uymp.co.uk). I'm really excited about this. It's a great opportunity for experience and to work for some really great composers! Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:57:30 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Ah will my geekery never cease? Now my website is fully RSS compliant - just click on whatever button your browser uses for RSS feeds and you can have your choice of events or news to subscribe to and keep up to date with events. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:00:14 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Welcome to my new website! Hope you enjoy. Here you can get news of events, new works and other news. You can listen to my works here too - just use the player above! Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:45:00 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I have been chosen to be on the SPNM Composer shortlist. This is a great opportunity to get more works out there and ultimately write more music. My details aren't up yet, but see http://www.spnm.org.uk/?page=shortlist for more details. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Trio Atem did a fantastic job of performing my new specially written piece "Fl. Vcl." To listen to a recording of the live concert, use the player above. Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:56:06 GMT