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(2018-present) Unthinking Things, part two (metals)
automatic music for 16 voice choir, electronics and live score projection 
music and programming by Richard Hoadley; text by Bishop George Berkeley
- Performance: St Augustine Singers, Cambridge, 17th March 2018
- Performance: St Augustine Singers, Cambridge, 7th March 2020
- Performance: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Hamburg, 13th May 2020 - POSTPONED

- Performance: Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, Hamburg, 10th-13th May 2021

(2018) Music for Twine
a dance film by Chris Smith
music and programming by Richard Hoadley;

(2017-present) Unthinking Things, part one (stones)
automatic music for 16 voice choir, electronics and live score projection music and programming by Richard Hoadley; text by Bishop George Berkeley
- Performance: St Augustine's Church, Cambridge, 17th March 2018

(2016-17) Homage to Cervantes
music, computer, violin and projections
- Performance: International Conference on New Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) 25th May 2017

(2015-6, in progress) Choreograms, a music-text-dance piece Music and programming Richard Hoadley amongst others, dance Jane Turner, text Phil Terry

- Performance at Colchester Arts Centre, Wednesday March 8th 2017
- Performance at Conway Hall, Wednesday March 1st 2017
- Performance at Chelmsford Festival of Ideas, Saturday November 12th 2016
- Performance at The Globe, Albany Road, Cardiff, Thursday October 6th 2016
- Performance (Semaphore/Choreograms chimera) at AHRC Commons, York University, 21st June 2016
- Performance at New Cut, Saturday 7th May 2016, Halesworth, Suffolk
- Performance at Hoadley, Hall and Brown, Saturday April 23rd 2016, Anglia Ruskin University.
- Performance Early Dance Circle Bienniel Conference, friday 8th april 2016, high wycombe

(2015-6) Edge Violations
music, computer, clarinet and projections

- Performance/workshop: The Boiler House, London Metropolitan, Thursday October 15th 2015 NB This performance/workshop was cancelled.
- first performance at Hoadley, Hall and Brown, Saturday April 23rd 2016, Anglia Ruskin University.
- Performance at the TENOR conference, Cambridge, May 28th 2016 - Ian Mitchell, clarinet(s)
- Performance at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, Covent Garden, London, 12th July 2016

(2015) Semaphore/Selfies, a music-text-dance piece
Music and programming Richard Hoadley amongst others, dance Jane Turner, text Phil Terry, videography Ian Willcock
Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Saturday October 2015, Anglia Ruskin University
3pm workshop, LAB 028; 5:30pm performance, Mumford Theatre

Hoadley, R. and K. Norman (2015) How to Play the Piano in 88 Notes, a part of Piano Glyphs
Piano - Philip Mead, music and programming - Richard Hoadley, words - Katharine Norman
- Performance at the INTIME Conference, Saturday 24th October, Coventry University
- Performance at the Music as Process Conference, Saturday June 6th, Goldsmiths, London
- Performance at 2:15 Recital Hall, Anglia Ruskin University, 12th May 2015.
- Performance at 1pm, 8th May 2015, University of Hertfordshire, a part of the Sonic Herts
- Performance in a concert of music for piano and electronics, 7:30-8:30pm, 26th February 2015 PACE 1, De Montfort University, a part of the Cultural Exchanges Festival
- Performance by Philip Mead at the London International Piano Symposium, Royal College of Music, Saturday February 14th

(2014-15) Semaphore
a dance, music and text performance piece
Music and Programming - Richard Hoadley; dance - Jane Turner; text - Philip Terry
- Performance (Semaphore/Choreograms chimera) at AHRC Commons, York University, 21st June 2016
- Performance at Embodied Intelligence in Music - Live, Presentation and performance of Semaphore PACE, De Montfort University, Monday 4th April 2016
- Performance of Semaphore/Selfies chimera, Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Saturday October 2015, Anglia Ruskin University (3pm workshop, LAB 028; 5:30pm performance, Mumford Theatre)
- Performance by Gwen Jones and Ann Pidcock (dance); Jimmy Ottley ('cello); Darius Gray (clarinet) Cardiff M.A.D.E., Thursday 9th July 2015, 7:30pm
- Performance by Gwen Jones and Ann Pidcock (dance); Cheryl Frances-Hoad ('cello); Gareth Stuart (clarinet) Mumford Theatre, Cambridge, Friday 17th April 2015, 1:10pm
- Performance by Gwen Jones and Ann Pidcock (dance); Cheryl Frances-Hoad ('cello); Ian Mitchell (clarinet) Drawing Towards Sound, TV Studio, University of Greenwich, Friday 20th March 2015, 6pm
- Performance byGwen Jones and Ann Pidcock (dance); Cheryl Frances-Hoad ('cello); Kate Romano (clarinet) Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Covent Garden Theatre, Cambridge, Sunday 26 October 2014 8pm

Hoadley, R., (2014) December Variations (on a Theme by Earle Brown), performance by Beata Pincetik,
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2014, University of Athens, Greece, September 2014

(2013-2014) Quantum Canticorum
a dance and music performance piece by Richard Hoadley and Jane Turner
2014
- Performance as a part of Quantum², with Richard Hoadley, Jane Turner, Gareth Stuart, Anne Pidcock, Gwen Jones, David Ogle, Grégoire A. Meyer, Natacha Bisarre Liverpool Hope University, Monday October 20
- Performance as a part of Quantum², with Richard Hoadley, Jane Turner, Gareth Stuart, Gwen Jones, David Ogle, Grégoire A. Meyer, Natacha Bisarre, Laura Brera Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain, Saturday June 7
- Performance by Richard Hoadley, Jane Turner, Gareth Stuart, Anne Pidcock Mumford Theatre, Cambridge, 1300, Friday 4 April 4
- Performance by Richard Hoadley, Jane Turner, Gareth Stuart, Anne Pidcock Deptford Town Hall, 1845, Wednesday April 2 as a part of the Live Algorithms for Music Symposium, Goldsmiths, April 2-5
2013
- Performance as a part of Quantum², Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, Sunday October 27 Cambridge Festival of Ideas
- Performance by Richard Hoadley, Jane Turner, Gareth Stuart, Anne Pidcock Deptford Town Hall, 1930, Friday October 18 as a part of Notation in Contemporary Music Symposium, Goldsmiths, October 19-21
- Performance as a part of Quantum², Sensations Festival, Chelmsford, September 28

(2011-2016) Calder's Violin
automatic music for violin/flute and computer
- Performance by Ming Wang of new version for flute and computer (Calder's Flute), Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2016), Hamburg, Saturday September 3rd 2016
- Performance by George Panagiotopoulos at International Computer Music Conference 2014, Athens, Greece, September 2014
- Performance by Mifune Tsuji at INTIME 2013 Symposium, October 19-20 2013, University of Coventry, UK
- Performance by Marcus Barcham-Stevens at City University, London, 2012 SuperCollider Symposium, April 17 2012
- Performance by Mifune Tsuji at Cambridge Festival of Ideas, October 22 2011

(2012-2013) The Fluxus Tree
An interactive sculpture for dancer using data from sensors to help generate notation live, which is then played by the composer and 'cellist Cheryl Frances-Hoad.
Jane Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Richard Hoadley
- Performance at Musichoreography: duets for dancers and instrumentalists, Kings Place, London, April 14 2013
- Performance at INTIME 2012 Symposium, October 19-20 2012, University of Coventry, UK
- Performance at LIVE INTERFACES: Performance, Art, Music, September 7-8 2012, ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK
- Performance at Degrees of Synchrony: an original dance and music performance investigating the boundaries between synchronisation and simultaneity, May 13 2012, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

(2013) Three Streams for gesture and cello
CMPCP Performance Studies Network International Conference Cambridge UK, 4-7 April 2013

(2012) Phase Transition - a dance and music performance experiment
Richard Hoadley and Jane Turner
Recital Hall, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, Sunday 28th October 2012
Cambridge Festival of Ideas

(2012) Player Piano
An automatic composition for computer generated piano and piano. The pianist's music is generated live in performance.
A part of Degrees of Synchrony: an original dance and music performance investigating the boundaries between synchronisation and simultaneity.
Performance involving acoustic and electronic sound with choreographer Jane Turner and composer-performers Tom Hall, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Richard Hoadley.
13th May, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

(2012) Fluxus
automatic music for piano and computer
Composed by Richard Hoadley, performed by Richard Hoadley, January 17th, Cambridge, UK as a part of Future Fluxus

(2012) Conway Hall Confidential: Three Sounding Sculptures
Sculptural algorithmic installation
April 13th-14th, Conway Hall, London

(2009-present) Devices and Units
Hardware and software interfaces for music performance, in development.

(2009-2011) Triggered
Sculptural custom hardware and software interfaces and automatic composition for performers and dancers.
With Tom Hall, Jane Turner, Cheryl Frances-Hoad
- Performance at Kings Place, London, June 13 2011
- Performance for CoDE New Materialism Conference, Anglia Ruskin University, Monday 21st June 2010
- Performance for Correspondence, a weekend of Creative Practice, London Metropolitan University,
Saturday 26th June 2010

(2011) One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Messages
Crowdsourced composition and performance controlled by mobile devices.
Presented at 'Sounds Like Mobility, A Mobile Media, Sound and Music Event', Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, 17th May

(2010-11) Touching Sound
Composition and Music Therapy project in preparation

(2010-11) Metapiano
Used in Triggered 2011 and Conway Hall Confidential: Three Sounding Sculptures
Some material also used in Calder's Violin

(2010) Cage Musicircus
Contribution using Wired, Gagglina and Gaggle to the performance in collaboration with Tom Hall et al., Kettles Yard,
Cambridge, 10th November 2010.

(2010) One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Haiku
Automatic performance/composition with custom hardware and software.
Part of Frame-breaking including original work in collaboration with Katharine Norman, Sam Hayden, Katy Price, Tom Hall, Kettles Yard,
Cambridge, 9th May 2010.

(2010) MIST (Museums, Interfaces, Spaces, Techologies)
Invited performance using custom built hardware and software, AHRC Workshop, 22nd-23rd March 2010.

(2009) Gaggle: Hardware and Software Interface and Composition
Hardware, software, composition and performance commissioned by
British Computer Society HCI conference 2009, Cambridge
http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/, September.
In collaboration with Tom Hall, Cheryl Francis-Hoad and Jane Turner and dancers

(2009) One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Haiku
Automatic performance/composition with custom software
Commissioned for an event in collaboration with Katharine Norman and Katy Price
Kettles Yard, Cambridge, May 2009

(2008) Many Worlds
Semi-automatic music (SuperCollider)
A component part of Silent Histories: soundscapes and compositions on the themes of stillness, technology and place.
Music and performances by Kerstin Bueschges, Kevin Flanagan, Richard Hoadley and Paul Rhys.
Kettles Yard, Cambridge, May 2008

(2007) Telephony
MaxMSP and Telephones, concert version approx. 9:29.
Commissioned for Kettle's Yard New Music, Kettle's Yard 2007

(2006) Histrionica
A melodrama for 'cello and gamelan instruments; 6:26.
First performed at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge in March 2006 by Anton Lukoszevieze and members of the Cambridge Gamelan Society.

(2004) Hello
semi-automatic live performance music for computer, 6:22.
Commissioned for Kettle's Yard New Music, February 2004

(2002) Ambience
semi-automatic live performance music for computers and synthesisers (pSY).
Commissioned for Cambridge New Music Group Inaugural Concert, April 2002

(1999) The Copenhagen Interpretation
automatic live performance music for computers and synthesisers (pSY), 16:30.
Commissioned for Cambridge Digital Arts Festival, June 1999.

(1998) The Continual Snowfall of Petrochemicals
automatic live performance music for computers and synthesisers (pSY).
Commissioned for Cambridge Digital Arts Festival, June 1998.

(1994) Four Archetypes for large orchestra, 16:00.
Commissioned by the Cambridge-Heidelberg-Montpelier Orchestra with funds provided by Eastern Arts, 1994.

(1992) Three Pieces for Two Pianos for two pianos, 36:00.
Commissioned by Philip Mead and Steve Guttman, pianos, 1992 (1989, rev. 1991) Shilbottle Cobbles
for wind orchestra, 17:00, recording
Commissioned by the Charterhouse Wind Orchestra.

(1989, rev. 1990) In Principio
for choir and organ or choir and brass quintet, 12:30.
Commissioned by the Charterhouse Choir.

(1988) Concertino
for violin, clarinet, 'cello, piano, 12:00.
Written for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

(1988) Only Connect for orchestra, 17:00.
Written for the Durham University Orchestra,
performed on Radio Three 'Music in our Time' by the BBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Robert Zeigler.

(1987) String Sextet (Still Life)
Written for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 16:10.

(1987) Scena
for Tenor Voice and Chamber Ensemble, 16:00.

(1987) Through the Sharp Hawthorn (Blows the Cold Wind)
for flute and piano, 20:26.

(1979-2001) Miscellaneous Pieces

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title/more information	resources	duration	date	revised	midi	sibelius 'scorch'	audio
Devices	hardware interface for music performance		2009	2010			✓
One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Haiku	automatic music for hardware interfaces and computers	12:00	2010
Triggered	hardware interface systems for music performance		2010				✓
Gaggle	hardware interface for music performance		2009				✓
One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Haiku	automatic music for computer	11:45	2009				✓
Many Worlds	semi-automatic music (SuperCollider)	10:00	2008				✓
Telephony	MaxMSP and telephone(s)	~10:00	2007				✓
Click	semi-automatic live performance music for computer		2006
Histrionica	a melodrama for 'cello and gamelan instruments	6:20	2006		✓	✓	✓
Hello	semi-automatic live performance music for computer	~6:22	2004				✓
Ambience	pSY (computers/SY synths)	7:52	2002				✓
The Copenhagen Interpretation	computers and synthesisers	16:30	1999				✓
A Continual Snowfall of Petrochemicals	computers and synthesisers	n/a	1998				✓
Four Archetypes	large orchestra	16:00	1994		✓	✓
Three Pieces for Two Pianos	two pianos, four hands	35:45	1992		✓		✓
Shilbottle Cobbles	wind orchestra	16:00	1989	1991			✓
Concertino	violin, clarinet, 'cello, piano	12:00	1988	-	✓
In Principio	choir & organ or brass quintet	12:36	1988	1989			✓
Only Connect	orchestra	17:00	1987	1992			✓
Sextet (Still Life)	string sextet	16:00	1986-7				✓
Through the Sharp Hawthorn	flute and piano	21:00	1986	1990	✓		✓
Music For Good Friday	piano	8:07	1981	-	✓
Five Pieces for Violin and Viola	violin and viola	10:00	1979	1982, 1988	✓
Miscellaneous Pieces	various	-	-	-

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