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		<title>You wait ages for a new piece&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/2012/04/you-wait-ages-for-a-new-piece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and then two come along at once. Friday 27th April sees the performance of my two most recent pieces as part of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland&#8216;s annual week of new music; PLUG. The lunchtime concert at 1pm features, amongst other things, my Postlude to Nightfishing for solo violin and the evening concert at 7:30pm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New recording</title>
		<link>http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/2011/12/new-recording/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recording of my recent piece Struction (how I attempted&#8230; is now available here. It&#8217;s a bootleg-esque recording from the first performance given by Red Note. A little confession: I&#8217;m not entirely sure this piece works as an audio recording. If you do listen, bear in mind that the voice of the composer is disembodied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beethoven dies in hot cars</title>
		<link>http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/2011/07/beethoven-dies-in-hot-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;m fortunate enough to be a member of Benjamin Zander&#8217;s conducting class at the London Master Classes, held annually at the Royal Academy of Music in London. I&#8217;d like to share one of the things he said&#8230; &#8220;We&#8217;ve tamed Beethoven, this wild animal shaking his fist at the world. We want to play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gig!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 15:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like new music? Like Edinburgh? Like intimate, red-painted concert halls? Then you&#8217;ll like this&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Points of departure</title>
		<link>http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/2011/05/points-of-departure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 23:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/?p=99</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m beginning several new pieces at the moment I thought I would share the few ground rules / points of departure I set myself as I begin each new work. Most of what I write these days is concerned with PhD-related research and the pieces are generally conceived outwith any commissioning system. This list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plugged and Struction done</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 23:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the highlights of the RSAMD year is the annual Plug festival of new music of which the 2011 variety took place a couple of weeks ago. It’s usually a good week for the composition department, both musically and socially, as the Academy puts on around ten concerts of new work (almost) exclusively created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To whom it may concern</title>
		<link>http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/2010/11/to-whom-it-may-concern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ingram Marshall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Reader, Please forgive the vague salutation; I’d prefer to make this a more personal missive. Would you permit me to address you by your forename, perhaps? If you’d rather we stuck to a more formal code then that’s fine with me too, although I may need to enquire as to whether you are really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there justification for amplification?</title>
		<link>http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/2010/09/is-there-justification-for-amplification-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/2010/09/is-there-justification-for-amplification-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a cross-post with the Composing Oneself blog. There has been much furore in the blogosphere recently concerning the views of Jonathan Harvey, one of the most well-respected of British composers. Specifically, during a broadcast interview with Bob Shingleton for Future Radio, Harvey suggested that classical concerts of the future could use electronic amplification [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mazsalaca 2</title>
		<link>http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/2010/08/mazsalaca2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a short sketch of mine that was performed by the ReDo string quartet during the 5th International Workshop for Composers in Mazsalaca, Latvia, last week. I can&#8217;t praise ReDo highly enough; they are four young, very talented players with so much warmth and enthusiasm for music (&#8220;we&#8217;ll play anything so long as it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boxing in Mazsalaca</title>
		<link>http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/2010/08/boxing-in-mazsalaca/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thomas-butler.co.uk:/blog/2010/08/boxing-in-mazsalaca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m back home in Glasgow having just returning from a busy and inspiring week at the 5th International Workshop for Young Composers that was held in Mazsalaca, Latvia. I was one of twenty young composers from around the globe selected to study with lecturers David Lang, P&#228;r Lindgren and Richard Ayres. We also worked with [...]]]></description>
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