Donald Bousted Donald Bousted London and Norfolk Donald Bousted is a composer and mixed media artist working in London and Norfolk, UK. He is Artistic Director of Microtonal Projects and joint author, with Stephen Altoft, of The Microtonal Trumpet. He is Musical Director of Forgotten Spaces and EUROMicroFest. He is a curator of mixed media events including 5 Wild Dog events in London’s Docklands and a Late at Tate (Microtonal), at Tate Britain. His most recent work has sought to integrate elements of film, performance, live art and pre-recorded elements. A number of works, including the installation with Gary O’Connor ‘broader than broadway’ and the mixed media pieces in your dreams, touch and the black hole utilise ‘home-made’ speakers made by attaching exciters to musical instruments, glass, floorboards and walls. In 2014, Donald completed the 50 minute 19.5, a work in 19 divisions of the octave (19-div), commissioned by duo Contour (Stephen Altoft, trumpet and Lee Ferguson, percussion). The 12 movement work, written for a specially designed trumpet and a malletKat (MIDI mallet instrument) is one of a number of works written for acoustic instruments using non-standard tunings. Donald has a PhD in musical composition from the University of Huddersfield where he worked for 8 years as a lecturer in composition. Now freelance, he has presented his music and projects at many UK music departments including the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music; in America at LA MicroFest; in South Korea and at the Akademie der Tonkunst, Darmstadt and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. He gives joint presentations, with Stephen Altoft, on the microtonal trumpet. Donald Bousted’s tracks Never Liked Water (2003) by Donald Bousted published on 2020-09-14T14:24:11Z Item#3 by Donald Bousted published on 2020-07-31T10:17:14Z Item#2 for trumpet and ALK2 (2020) by Donald Bousted published on 2020-06-26T07:11:19Z A Memory Game (2002) by Donald Bousted published on 2020-06-03T09:04:03Z DAD (2011) by Donald Bousted published on 2020-05-24T08:15:56Z Yasser Describes His Polemic (and adds some footnotes)(2006) by Donald Bousted published on 2020-05-16T09:22:47Z this piece is about you by Donald Bousted published on 2020-05-01T10:09:29Z My Josephine, your pretty scale trumpet (2012) by Donald Bousted published on 2020-03-19T15:49:00Z GRASS by Donald Bousted published on 2020-01-09T10:42:46Z
Yasser Describes His Polemic (and adds some footnotes)(2006) by Donald Bousted published on 2020-05-16T09:22:47Z
