I am a composer and performer from Chicago, living and working in Copenhagen Denmark. My work focuses on combining found sounds, videos, and images with notated instrumental music and staging. This practice is informed by my backgrounds in classical and experimental rock musics as well as theater and literature. My music examines areas such as miracles, magic, illusions, history, folklore, coincidences, broken things, causality and imaginary worlds.
In both my own works and those of my colleagues I frequently appear as narrator, vocalist, guitarist, or director. In recent years, my active presence on stage has become integral to my artistic work, functioning not only as performance but as a means of establishing a closer proximity between authorship and the work itself.
I studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Royal Danish Academy of Music. My work has been presented at festivals including Klang, Spor, Nordic Music Days, Minu, Darmstadt, and Aalborg Opera Festival, and performed by ensembles and soloists including K!art, Neko 3, NJYD, DR Vokal Ensemblet, Marco Blauw, Nikolaus von Bemberg, Victor Koch, The Arctic Philharmonic Sinfonietta, Kollektiv Unruhe, Trio Sol and others.
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Connor McLean Composer 