Ian Vine (born 3 January 1974 in

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, England) is a British

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. Vine grew up in

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and

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. He studied

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at the

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with Anthony Gilbert and privately with

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. There are traces Near and Far Eastern modalities as well as gestural and formal elements in his music. ''SIRI'' (1997), for solo

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

with electronics, uses a rhythmic and structural language found in the highly ritualised percussion

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and

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. ''writing on water'' (1999-), commissioned by

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and released on the Accidental label, is an expanding collection of short (sometimes only 20 seconds long) works using recorded acoustic instruments; and ''shadow grounds'' (1999), commissioned by the

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for the

ensemble recherche Ensemble Recherche is a German contemporary classical music ensemble with nine fixed members. Founded in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1985, the ensemble has premiered more than 1,000 works, dozens of which have since come to be recognised as masterwo ...

as part of their ''In Nomine Broken Consort Book'', a three-minute non-miniature of suspended sound. His ''three black moons'' (1999), commissioned by the

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, was described by ''

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'', '...the most striking piece takes its title from an

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mobile - its magical floating sonorities had a Feldmanesque beauty.' ''The Guardian'' has written of him that "Vine's music, clearly influenced by Morton Feldman, is beautifully imagined and precisely focused". Vine is the artistic director of new music ensemble

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Key works

* ''white river sand'' (2002) - large ensemble * ''espinas'' (1999) - large ensemble * ''siri'' (1997) and ''siri2'' (2000) - for solo percussion and percussion quartet respectively

Recordings

* ''forty works for Richard'', self-released, not on label (2011) * ''held/always/immer/gehalten'', self-released, not on label (2012) * ''frieze/static form/division'', self-released, not on label (2014) * ''forty objects/forty-five objects'', self-released, not on label (2015) * ''interstices'', self-released, not on label (2015) * ''copies I-V'', self-released, not on label (2016)

works appear on

* ''writing on water'' (2000), on You Are Here, Accidental Records (2003) * ''shadow grounds'' (1999), The Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book, ensemble recherche, Kairos (2004) * ''ocre oscuro'' (2007), on Jerwood Series 5, London Sinfonietta Label (2009)

References

External links

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Ian Vine
nmcrec.co.uk
AMN Reviews: Ian Vine – held/always/immer/gehalten
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