Dr Jolyon Laycock

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#CC9900" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="045005a0dwnjzk.gif"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Rainbow Foundation"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     | </B><B> </B><B> </B><B>  </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>The Rainbow Foundation</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>Dr Jolyon Laycock</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Vic Ecclestone"><U><B>Vic Ecclestone</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Dr. Jolyon Laycock</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="05d73b00.jpg" border=0 width="115" height="176" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Composer, pianist, poet, teacher, lecturer, music animateur, researcher.</div> <bR> <div> Qualifications:</div> <div> ARCM Piano teachers diploma 1965</div> <div> B.Mus (Hons) University of Nottingham 1968</div> <div> M.Phil (Music Composition) University of Nottingham 1971</div> <div> Ph.D (Music) University of York 2002</div> <bR> <div> Biography:</div> <div> Jolyon Laycock was born in Bath in 1946 and studied music at the University of Nottingham. His composition teachers included Arnold Whittall, Ivor Keys, Cornelius Cardew, Henri Pousseur, Pierre Mariétan and Michael Decoust. </div> <bR> <div> During the seventies he pursued a freelance career as an experimental artist working with sound based at Birmingham Arts Laboratory and Spectro Arts Workshop in Newcastle on Tyne. From 1979 to 1989 he was Music and Dance Co-ordinator at Arnolfini, Bristol, where he presented a wide range of programmes of contemporary music and dance including collaborations with the Arts Council Contemporary Music Network, and with Dance Umbrella.</div> <bR> <div> As a concert promoter, his programmes for the Arnolfini, and for “Rainbow over Bath” at the University of Bath and Bath Spa University College from 1989 to 2000, were regarded as among the most innovative outside London. “Rainbow over Bath” twice won the PRS Award for Enterprise. In 1996 Laycock initiated “Rainbow across Europe”, a network of concert organisations in France, the Netherlands, Austria, Bulgaria and Hungary funded by the European Union Kaleidoscope Fund.</div> <bR> <div> He left the University of Bath in 2000 to complete his doctoral thesis at York, “A changing role for the composer in society”, now published as a book by Peter Lang European Acadamic Publishers, Switzerland <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://www.peterlang.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.peterlang.com"><U><U>http://www.peterlang.com</U></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> In 2002 Laycock was Composer in Residence at the Corsham Festival. His creative music project “Dream River Great Wall”, commissioned by Corsham Festival and funded by the National Youth Music Foundation, brought together Chinese and western professional musicians in a creative partnership with junior school children, and trainee teachers and composers. In April 2003, he received an Arts Council Award to begin work on a new opera, “The Summer Child”, based on an ancient British legend about the River Severn. </div> <bR> <div> Laycock is also active as a poet. “Dream River Great Wall” and “The Summer Child” are settings of his own poetry texts. In 2004, he won the 2004 Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute Poetry Prize with “A Brief History of….”.</div> <bR> <div> He was appointed Lecturer in Arts Management and Administration in the School of Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University in December 2004 where he will devise the BA in Arts Management, based on the vocational module he developed during ten years of teaching at Bath Spa University College. </div> <bR> <div> Publications:</div> <div> Monograph: <I>A Changing Role for the Composer in Society</I> Peter Lang AG European Publishers (2005) <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://www.peterlang.com/all/index.cfm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.peterlang.com/all/index.cfm"><U><U>http://www.peterlang.com/all/index.cfm</U></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Exhibition catalogue:  <I>A Noise in Your Eye</I> International exhibition of Sound Sculpture; Arnolfini 1985 Primary research and curatorial work of this touring exhibition which brought together 14 artists, musicians and composers from UK, USA, Canada, Germany and France, whose work crossed the boundaries between music and sculpture. </div> <bR> <div> Articles:</div> <div> New Notes (SPNM magazine) February 1996 <I>Rainbow across Europe: Composers in the Bath twin towns</I></div> <div> Contact June 1973 - <I>Composing in space and time - towards a new concept of music</I>.</div> <bR> <div> Conference papers:</div> <div> <I><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="19" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Dream River Great Wall - a report on the outcome and conclusions of a project designed to test a model for community action and creativity in a cultural encounter between Chinese classical and Western contemporary classical music. </I>RIME Conference (Research in Music Education), University of Exeter, 5-9 April 2005.</div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="19" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Rather Special People</I> Exposition of a theoretical model, a summary of key research findings, and a report on a creative music-making project in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. October 2003. RAIME (Research Alliance of Institutes for Music Education). Published in the Proceedings of the 7<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >th</FONT> International Symposium 2003 Corsham Court, Corsham, UK </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="19" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Participation as a delegate at <I>Bigger, Better, Beautiful</I> 14-17 February 2002 Budapest, Hungary.  Conference theme: The impact of European enlargement on cultural identity, and the widening of opportunities for cultural collaboration between member states.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="19" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Report on recent research in developing a theoretical model for creative music projects delivered to the General Assembly of the European Conference of Promoters of New Music. Die Glockenhaus, Lüneberg, Germany. October 2000. </div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="19" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Building musical bridges in Europe - an introduction to the work of Rainbow across Europe</I> A paper delivered at the General Assembly of the European Conference of Promoters of New Music, Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Heidelberg University, Germany. October 1999.  (Participation was funded by the British Council)</div> <bR> <div> Conference organisation:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="19" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Initiation, organisation and fund-raising for Bath International Twinning Forum The Guildhall, Bath, May 2003. (Funded by the EC Town Twinning Fund.)</div> <bR> <div> List of compositions:</div> <bR> <div> <I>Four Times Four</I> for 16 actors/dancers/singers with electronics 1971</div> <bR> <div> <I>Locations I, II, III, and IV</I> - sound sculptures 1970 rev. 1973</div> <bR> <div> <I>Lattice</I> - for 12 solo strings and electronics </div> <div> (Commissioned by the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham)</div> <bR> <div> <I>Pluramusic</I> - electronic sound installation (1972-1977)</div> <bR> <div> <I>This Could Happen to You</I> - participatory audio-visual installation (1974)</div> <bR> <div> <I>Tyrannos</I> - 12 audio-visual cycles on the myth of Oedipus (unfinished) - Earth Cycle, Moon Cycle, Uranus Cycle, Pluto Cycle, and Equinox Cycle first performed 1977 Sunderland Arts Centre.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Bladud</I> - a wordscape with music - commissioned by Bathampton Primary School 1985</div> <bR> <div> <I>Woden's Dyke</I> - music-theatre for school and community performance based on the story of the Anglo-Saxon chieftain Ceawlin of Wessex. Commissioned by Wansdyke Arts Council 1987.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Hetty Pegler</I> - music theatre piece commissioned by Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucestershire 1988</div> <bR> <div> <I>High Wood</I> - solo oboe - 1988 (premiere Robin Canter)</div> <bR> <div> <I>Seven Stars</I> - Community Opera based on Thomas Clarkson's investigations into the Bristol slave trade in 1787. Bristol City Commission.(1994)</div> <bR> <div> <I>A Dream of Flying</I> - for clarinet, horn, bassoon, string trio, double bass and piano first performed by the Herschel Ensemble; May 1995.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Eadgar Cyning</I> - settings of three poems from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle about the coronation and death of Edgar at Bath. World premiere Bath Abbey 20 April 1996.</div> <div> Commissioned by the Diocese of Bath and Wells for the Bishop Ken Celebrations 1996 </div> <bR> <div> <I>Un Tiento Rasguado</I> (homage to Joaquin Rodrigo) junior competition </div> <div> test piece for the Bath International Guitar Festival 1996.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Sinfonietta</I> for String Orchestra 1998</div> <bR> <div> <I>Mengjiang Weeping at the Wall</I> Music-theatre piece for soprano, choir, small ensemble and Chinese instruments and junior children; Commissioned by the Corsham Festival June 2002. </div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.corshamfestival.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.corshamfestival.org.uk"><U><U>http://www.corshamfestival.org.uk</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> Piano Preludes 2001</div> <div> <I>L'Abri Pataud </I>Performed by Peter Jacobs at the Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University College, 23 February 2005 Recorded on Dunelm Records DRD0238 </div> <div> fax & phone: 01457 855313 Website <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://www.dunelm-records.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.dunelm-records.co.uk"><U><U>http://www.dunelm-records.co.uk</U></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>Die! A-One Sparrow</I> for Icebreaker - 2002</div> <div> <I>Die! A-One Sparrow</I> version for piano duet - 2002 - premiere Bristol Music Club, 14 May 2005, Chris Northam and Steven Kings, pianos.</div> <div> Recorded on Dunelm Records DRD0243 </div> <div> fax & phone: 01457 855313 Website <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://www.dunelm-records.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.dunelm-records.co.uk"><U><U>http://www.dunelm-records.co.uk</U></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> In progress:</div> <div> <I>Summer Child</I> opera based on the ancient British myth of Sabrina and the River Severn (subject of an Arts Council England Artists Award in April 2003.)</div> <div> Proposed new work for piano and orchestra for Peter Donohoe and Bath Philharmonia.- part of <I>Concerto</I> a creative music project for schools. </div> <bR> <div> Community and Education projects:</div> <bR> <div> <I>Mengjiang Weeping at the Wall</I>: </div> <div> Music-theatre piece about the Great Wall of China for soprano, community choir, small ensemble and Chinese instruments with creative score windows. </div> <div> First performed Corsham Festival 24 June 2002. </div> <div> Other performances:</div> <div> Lyons Concert Hall University of York, March 2003. </div> <div> Bristol - Victoria Rooms, University of Bristol 27 February 2004 </div> <div> Midsomer Norton - Somervale School 19 March 2004 </div> <div> Bath - The Forum 11 June 2004.</div> <bR> <div> The piece is based on a 2000-year-old story from the Qin dynasty. It tells of Mengjiang whose tears of grief for her dead husband washed away the foundations of part of the Great Wall, revealing the buried bodies of thousands of workers. Finding her husband among them, she carried his remains thousands of miles along the length of the wall until she reached the Yellow Sea. The score contains the <I>Great Wall</I> song, and a series of improvisation windows in which the children respond in sound to the contours of a frieze depicting the mountainous skyline of the Great Wall of China from West to East. The work formed the central element of <I>Dream River Great Wall</I>, a school and community project funded by the National Youth Music Foundation, Arts Council England, and the PRSF which was presented three times during 2004 with primary school children from schools in Bristol, Midsomer Norton and Bath. It is estimated to have reached a total of 900 young people. </div> <bR> <div> <I>Bladud</I> - a wordscape with music -</div> <div> Commissioned by Bathampton Primary School 1985</div> <div> Tells the story of Bladud, ancient chieftain of Bath who discovered the healing properties of the hot springs. The piece was created during workshops at Bathampton and performed by the entire school as part of their arts festival. It is scored for recorders, tuned and un-tuned percussion, children's choir, and sound effects group. Libretto by Jolyon Laycock. </div> <bR> <div> <I>Woden's Dyke</I> </div> <div> An operatic melodrama for school and community performance based on the story of the Anglo-Saxon chieftain Ceawlin of Wessex. Commissioned by Wansdyke Arts Council 1987. First performed by young people from four comprehensive schools in Bristol and Bath, and the South Bristol Music Centre Intermediate Orchestra. </div> <bR> <div> <I>Hetty Pegler</I> </div> <div> Music theatre piece commissioned by Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucestershire 1988.</div> <div> Created in school workshops in four primary schools in the Costwold village of Uley, and based on a story created by the children which tells of the adventures of children living in the time of Hetty Pegler's Tump, a local bronze-age round barrow. The score contains improvisation windows in which the children respond in sound to the contours of a frieze depicting the spectacular mountainous skyline of the Cotswold Hills around Uley.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Seven Stars</I> </div> <div> Community Opera based on Thomas Clarkson's investigations into the Bristol slave trade in 1787. Bristol City Commission.(1994). This full-length opera has a large cast, and chorus with full orchestra, African drummers and High-life band. It tells the true story of Billy Lines, a Bristol youth press-ganged into serving on a slave-ship, and of the unsuccessful attempts of Thomas Clarkson, a special government envoy, to have the slave captain prosecuted for Line's murder. </div> <bR> <div> <I>A Dream of Flying</I></div> <div> Creative project with music students at the Hogeschool Alkmaar Conservatorium, Netherlands based on the story of Bladud of Bath who, attempting to fly from the roof of the temple of Apollo on home-made wings, fell to the earth and was killed. The project led to the composition of the chamber work <I>A Dream of Flying</I> for clarinet, horn, bassoon, string trio, double bass and piano first performed by the Herschel Ensemble; May 1995.</div> <bR> <div> Membership of committees and professional organisations: </div> <div> Arts Council Contemporary Music sub-committee 1980-83</div> <div> South West Arts Music Panel 1981-85</div> <div> Founder member of EMAS (Electro-acoustic music association)</div> <div> South West Arts Composer Commission Panel 1981-1990</div> <div> Early Music Network Committee (1995-2000)</div> <div> ISCM British Section Committee (1996-2000)</div> <div> Council of the Society for the Promotion of New Music (1996- ) <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://www.spnm.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.spnm.org.uk"><U><U>http://www.spnm.org.uk</U></U></A></FONT></div> <div> European Conference of Promoters of New Music (1997- ) <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://www.ecpnm.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ecpnm.com"><U><U>http://www.ecpnm.com</U></U></A></FONT></div> <div> Performing Right Society <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://www.prs.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.prs.co.uk"><U><U>http://www.prs.co.uk</U></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>