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Daniel Elms (born 1985 in Kingston upon Hull) is a British composer of contemporary classical and electroacoustic music.[1]

Daniel Elms
Birth nameDaniel Elms
BornOctober 1985
Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom
GenresContemporary Classical, Electroacoustic
Occupation(s)Composer
InstrumentsGuitar, Electronics
LabelsNew Amsterdam Records, NMC Recordings
Websitewww.danielelms.co.uk

Early Life and Education[edit]

Elms was born in Kingston upon Hull and began composing as a teenager while studying the guitar.[2] He was awarded a scholarship by the the Royal College of Music to study under Kenneth Hesketh, Joseph Horovitz, Peter Stark, and Carlos Bonell.[3] His study was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.[4] Elms is the recipient of the "Emerging Excellence" Award 2013 from the Musicians' Benevolent Fund .[5]

Musical Style[edit]

Elms has described his own work as "post genre"[6]: a musical style that is as likely to use principles of contemporary classical composition as it is to draw upon the instrumentation or aesthetics of electronica, punk, or any other genre.[7]. This prism-like perspective of influence and instrumentation is notable in Elms' debut album Islandia [8], particularly the work of "luminous simplicity"[9] Bethia, composed for Hull City of Culture 2017, in which he uses an abstraction of traditional sea shanties, sung by a male choir, which is offset by the contrapuntal chimes of a carillon and a piano, the ambience of sustained chords played by a synthesiser, and, in the latter half of the work, a strident — sometimes dissonant — trumpet. All of this is accompanied by a projection of collaged and superimposed archival film, taken from the British Film Institute and assembled into a new form by videographer David Briggs.[10]

In Elms' music there is a focus on timbre and the time "in between notes"[11]; he sacrifices melody and accompaniment in favour of texture and impressionism, which, with the assistance of found sounds — in a manner similar to musique concrète — is often evocative of environments or landscapes.[12] The influence of "found art" is evident not only in the instrumentation of Elms' work, but in the subjects upon which his work is based, and from which he derives the harmonic content and integrity of his music.[13]

Career[edit]

Elms' debut album Islandia was released in 2019 on New Amsterdam Records. He mixed and produced the record, which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios.[14] The album was written while Elms was in residence at the home of composer Imogen Holst.[15]

BBC Radio 3 has featured Elms' music on shows by Hannah Peel,[16] Elizabeth Alker,[17] and Sara Mohr-Pietsch.[18] His music has been performed at venues including the Royal Festival Hall,[19] Kings Place,[20] Invisible Wind Factory, and the Stoller Hall.[21] In 2015 Elms was commissioned by the British Film Institute to create Bethia for Hull City of Culture 2017 as part of PRS Foundation's New Music Biennial.[22] The work premiered at Hull Minster on 30th June 2017, with a second performance at the Royal Festival Hall on 7th July 2017; a recording of the work was released by NMC Records.[23] Manchester Collective commissioned Elms in 2018 to create 100 Demons for string quartet and tape. The work was influenced by Hyakki Yagyō and the political turmoil of 2016-18[24], and was performed across two national UK tours in 2018. [25] [26] In 2019 the BBC Concert Orchestra, in partnership with BBC Radio 3's Unclassified Live, commissioned a new orchestral work from Elms: Consolations in Travel.[27] The Royal Philharmonic Society commissioned Elms in 2020 to create a new work for dance, The Age of Spiritual Machines, with choreographer Alexander Whitley.[28]

Elms recorded, produced and mixed the "distressingly brutal"[29] debut album What is Imposed Must be Endured by doom metal band Blind Monarch.[30] [31] He has also produced a series of live recordings for Manchester Collective, featuring works by Henryk Górecki, Edmund Finnis, and Abel Selaocoe. Elms wrote additional music for the 2017 TV series Taboo[32] by Ridley Scott and Thomas Hardy; the show and its lead composer, Max Richter, were nominated for an Emmy Award for Original Dramatic Score in 2017.[33] Elms has also worked with Max Richter on the film Never Look Away[34], Promise at Dawn[35], and the HBO adaptation of Eleanor Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend.[36] in 2020 Elms was music editor on HBO series Industry with original music by DJ Nathan Micay.[37] [38]

Major works[edit]

  • Consolations in Travel (2020)[39]
  • The Age of Spiritual Machines (2020)[40]
  • 100 Demons (2018)
  • Soft Machines (2017)[41]
  • Islandia (2017)
  • The Old Declarn (2017)
  • North Sea Quartet(2017)

Discography[edit]

Year Title Details
2019 Islandia (NWAM114)

[42]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Video Premiere". Stationary Travels. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Going Off Page". 15 Questions. p. 1. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Artist Page". NMC Records. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Plaques and Tangles, Cast". Royal Court Theatre. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  5. ^ "About this Contributor". Minute of Listening. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Interview, Daniel Elms". 15 Questions. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  7. ^ "The Genre of Post Genre". The Nation. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Islandia". New Amsterdam Records. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  9. ^ Ivan Hewett. "July's Best Classical Concerts". Telegraph. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  10. ^ "NM2704, Booklet" (PDF). Chandos. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  11. ^ "Islandia Album Review". Higher Plain Music. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  12. ^ "Daniel Elms Islandia, Review". The Prickle. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  13. ^ "The Vinyl Anachronist". Part Time Audiophile. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  14. ^ "Now Available". New Amsterdam Records. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  15. ^ "Client". WIldkat PR. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  16. ^ "Night Tracks, Adventures in Sound". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  17. ^ "Unclassified, Fade to Black". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  18. ^ "Hear and Now, New Music Biennial". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  19. ^ "New Music Biennial". Hear and Now. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  20. ^ "What's On". King's Place. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  21. ^ "The Stoller Hall Events Guide: January - July 2018". Issuu. p. 10. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  22. ^ "New Music Biennial". PRS Foundation. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  23. ^ "Products, Daniel Elms Bethia". NMC Recordings. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  24. ^ "Review". Bach Track. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  25. ^ "100 Demons". Manchester Collective. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  26. ^ "A Boundary Exploding Approach". Seen and Heard. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  27. ^ "Unclassified Live". The Quietus. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  28. ^ "Drummond Commissions". Royal Philharmonic Society. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  29. ^ "Best of British 2019". No Clean Singing. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  30. ^ "What is Imposed Must be Endured". Metal Kingdom. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  31. ^ "Kerrang! Blind Monarch". Press Reader. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  32. ^ "Taboo, Episode 1.8". IMDB. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  33. ^ "Shows, Taboo". emmys.com. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  34. ^ "Never Look Away, Full Cast and Crew". IMDB. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  35. ^ "Promise at Dawn, Full Cast and Crew". IMDB. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  36. ^ "My Brilliant Friend, Full Cast and Crew". IMDB. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  37. ^ "Projects, Industry". Air Edel. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  38. ^ "Industry (2020), Full Cast and Crew". IMDB. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  39. ^ "Unclassified Live". The Quietus. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  40. ^ "Drummond Commissions". Royal Philharmonic Society. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  41. ^ "Islandia Review". Higher Plain Music. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  42. ^ "Islandia". New Amsterdam Records. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

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