Patrick Ellis

You’re very welcome, Seán! Hopefully more performances to come soon :)

Photo by Joe Ellis, 2025

Photo by Martin Lau, 2025

Photo by Martin Lau, 2025

Some photos from Saturday's @openunion performance at the recent Ealing Extranormal in London 🍂

Due to Peter being unwell, I did a solo set featuring @paologriffin.bsky.social's 'Familiar Spaces' and a premiere / preview of @seanlclancy.bsky.social's 'Two Pages Five Ways'.

Plus Minus Ensemble in Dublin in under 2 weeks / special guest Ultan O Brien.
Music by Me, Jessie Marino, & Bernhard Lang.

Billets ici: billetto.ie/e/plus-minus...

a lil taste of Ultan’s beautiful work here: nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ultan-...

📸: Plus Minus in @cafeotodalston.bsky.social

Ealing Extranormal Volume 39, 20th September 2025 A monthly showcase for sonically adventurous experimental music in West London. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE SEPTEMBER 20TH SHOW.

The guitar/synth duo Open Union (@patrickel94.bsky.social & Peter Bell) will play a new open score piece I wrote for them tomorrow in Ealing, west London. Pop along if you’re a fan of sustained tones & exciting textures…

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ealing-ext...

Photos from the @paologriffin.bsky.social portrait concert back in July at the Hundred Years Gallery. Feat. David Zucchi and Open Union.

A huge thanks to Emma Werner for capturing these wonderful photos and Graham Mackeachan for helping facilitate the event with his lovely venue.

ICYMI: Our September 2025 issue of PRXLUDES dropped yesterday - featuring four new interviews & features celebrating some of today's most exciting composers ✨

What are you waiting for? Check it all out here:
prxludes.net

The September edition of @prxludes.bsky.social dropped this morning 🍂

Over the summer, I interviewed composer, Gloria Xia where we chatted about narrative, rituals, New Discipline and more...

As usual, the interview can be read in full for free here: prxludes.net/2025/09/15/g...

✨ NEW PRXLUDES - OUT NOW ✨

This month on PRXLUDES: four new interviews and features with some of the most cutting-edge music creators of today, exploring ecology, emotionality, and abuse in opera 🔥

Interested? Read now on PRXLUDES: prxludes.net

New Open Union collaborator announcement!

As part of our upcoming show at Ealing Extranormal on the 20th September, we will be performing a new work by @seanlclancy.bsky.social.

Tickets for the event purchased here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ealing-ext...

More info on Seán here: seanlclancy.com

🦋🕯️ Learn about Ellie Wilson's work 'Moth X Human', developed in collaboration with Jenna Lawson, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and moths - read now on PRXLUDES:
prxludes.net/2025/08/18/e...

OUT NOW - Linda Buckley: Thar Farraige

A contemporary chamber music piece weaving Irish and Scottish traditions, exploring love, loss, migration, and the meaning of home, performed by Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ailis Sutherland and the Maxwell Quartet.

Listen now nmcrecs.lnk.to/TharFarraige

New Music Biennial 2025 Listen to content by Various Artists.

Earlier, I wrote a ditty for ensemble and electronics as featured at @prsfoundation.bsky.social #newmusicbiennial. You can now pre-order all the works from the festival from @nmcrecordings.bsky.social - available to stream from this Friday! nmcrecs.lnk.to/NewMusicBien... @cmcireland.bsky.social

🌙 MOTH X HUMAN — created by composer and violinist Ellie Wilson, in collaboration with Dr Jenna Lawson, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and moths — is a sonic journey into the world as it comes alive after dark...
prxludes.net/2025/08/18/e...

YouTube video by Heath Street Arts Introducing 'For Samuel Beckett' with composer Matthew Lee Knowles

I was interviewed about "For Samuel Beckett" and the compositional process that led to it.

🌙 NEW PRXLUDES - OUT NOW 🌙

Three new interviews with the most cutting-edge composers of today, discussing biodiversity, cinematic sound systems, and childhood nostalgia - read now 🔥
prxludes.net

Ellie Wilson and Jenna Lawson on creating 'Moth X Human' Composer Ellie Wilson and scientist Jenna Lawson on their most recent collaboration, biodiversity decline, emotional reactions, and translating data into music

Also included in this months’ edition, @zdscomposer.bsky.social interviews Ellie Wilson about her work ‘Moth x Human’ as well as 2024-5 London Philharmonic Cohort composer Niamh J O’Donnell.

Both of those can be read here: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/e...

And here: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/n...

Out today as part of the August 2025 edition of @prxludes.bsky.social 🪴

I had the pleasure of interviewing the Amsterdam-based composer, Boris Bezemer ahead of two premieres next month.

Read in full here: prxludes.net/2025/08/18/b...

A few snaps of XTRO performing my 2021 work, ‘Objects and Portrait Projections’ last month as part of the Lilium SoundArt series in the Pandora, Italy, that celebrated the UNESCO Anniversary in the city✨

Forever grateful to the trio for approaching me all those years ago...

📸 Rebecca Legnaro

Out today on NMC Recordings 🕺💃🏻

Alex Groves’ DANCE SUITE performed by Zubin Kanga which @zdscomposer.bsky.social and I hosted for @prxludes.bsky.social as part of the PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial in Bradford and London.

📢 Open Union event announcement!

Peter Bell and I are excited to be returning to perform at Martin Lau's series, Ealing Extranormal at OPEN Ealing in London.

Setlist to be revealed nearer to the show.

Further information and tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../ealing-e....

Being a freelancer is scrounging around for work for 2 1/2 months, nearly giving up, only to be completely overwhelmed with too much work for the remainder of the year.

🌻 Learn more about Manchester-based composer Joy Ingle, and their relationship to system-derived and conceptual compositional processes - read now on PRXLUDES:
prxludes.net/2025/07/21/j...

Another Timbre Independent CD label for free improvisation, experimental and contemporary classical music.

One of my favourite record labels, www.anothertimbre.com has had a gorgeous website redesign and to celebrate they have a 5-CDs-for-£25 special offer. If you’re into modern composition and minimalism there is no finer label.

Thanks, Seán! It is much appreciated 😀

Thanks @minimesque.bsky.social - hope all is well :)

Some BIG news from @prxludes.bsky.social HQ 📰

We have received multi-year funding from The Hinrichsen foundation over 2025-28 to continue to put on events ✨

🌻 Learn about Turkish/British composer Elif Karlidag's upcoming commission for CoMA, taking place at their Summer School at Keele University later this month - have a read on PRXLUDES:
prxludes.net/2025/07/21/e...

Plus Minus Ensemble + Ultan O'Brien Enthusiastic Eunuch, In Association With The Arts Council Presents Plus Minus Ensemble performing J...

2 months from today, myself & @enthusiasticeunuch.bsky.social are bringing the fabulous Plus Minus Ensemble to Dublin. They’ll be performing a 30 minute work by me (first time in Ireland) + music from Bernhard Lang & Jessie Marino. Special guest is Ultan O Brien. Check it
billetto.ie/e/plus-minus...

Combining contemporary music, folk metal, and Indonesian keroncong style, cellist and composer Alfian Emir Adytia's latest album Decolmuseum is a mesmerising and high-octane listen, seething against the Netherlands’ history of colonial violence in Indonesia...
prxludes.net/2025/07/21/d...

We're so excited that the video recording of Angela Slater's incredible harp and percussion concerto 'Mountains Become Oceans' is now online ⛰️ ✨

Interested? Watch the video and learn more about Angela in our interview - now available to read on PRXLUDES 📰
prxludes.net/2025/05/19/a...