Afterwards - Arkiv and Addenda.
After 144 - Dm Arkiv

Dm Arkiv 2 - Seven Inventions for Mixed Percussion

Dm Arkiv 2 - Seven Inventions for Mixed Percussion. Seven inventions in mixed style - Coupled here with another Archived work, recast for release - ‘Echoworks - Rh Arkiv’ in 2021.

Seven Inventions for Mixed Percussion - Rh Arkiv. Searching my Archive, I’ve passed over the dusty box labelled ‘Seven inventions for . . .’ a hundred times, believing it to be scrap. I chanced to open it and found some interesting music. The odd error soon corrected. Rhythmically and stylistically they work very well, fluent to the nth degree and well worth preserving. Audibly I don’t think they are Mixed Percussion, in any significant sense - but they represent a change in the style of my Drum work.

A mix in Style and approach. A change from a single flow form of compounded ideas at times almost danceable to the broken, opened ripples of Ideas that are punchy and Punctuated Bouncing off degrees of silence - co-opted in the phrasing - studied and intense. They are of the time of my long break with percussion - during what I have called the Golden Band group of Albums - which contains no Drum percussion work. Such change was afoot.

I left behind and old style of Drum Work and it was a good while before I would come back to it with as I say a whole different conception of working - in new album group - my Inner Blue Album Group. This set has signs of both. Drum music was on the back burner between times - presumably that is why I abandoned this set. It just didn’t fit what I was doing at the time. The Gap in my Percussion work - the break in style is the Headline of the story.

This seems to hang between - They Don’t begin in one style and end in the other over the course of the set - they just coexist - each piece in one fashion or another - in one or the other and in no fixed order. What does this say about me - that there is no hard and fast boundary between those styles ? It is a set for Mixed Percussion then in that sense.

Echoworks - Rh Archiv 2021 - another long overlooked piece - but unlike the Seven Inventions - it didn’t just fall off the page and I was in the mood for a challenge. Echoworks was its title to start with and it was body of Echoed work - what emerged in 2021 then was a version of what I had - almost new music drawn from old sources. Except that - my final version does follow the old plan and cannot take a Fresh Rh catalogue number, as a new work I’m merely polishing an old one to stretch a point. A completed work yes but - I’ve tied myself in a knot here. A knife edge definition of New music or old - of a catalogue connotation. So I will call it Rh Arkiv 2021 [Acknowledged - un-numbered but with a date] if that helps.


At the end of my work, I am closing down my five Genres or Tranches. There remained though some lost pieces that needed to be included. So I felt each Genre should have an Arkiv of its own. Three of my five Genres needed such a space - hence Dm [Drum music] - Phm [Phase music] and Em [electronic music] have three, one and two albums respectively - to be placed after the Album 144 Summing for an end - set ‘on a shelf’ as it were - as kind of a last hurrah for those said Genres - which have served their purpose now.

There then follow, Six Yellow jacketed Arkiv Discs, that number off from my [yellow] Box of Delights - Hence 15 - 20, to be consistent with he 14 discs in the box of delights.

Arkiv - I delight in the German spelling


- Arkiv structure -

[] Album 113 - Arkiv - A Box of Delights (14 discs)


[] Album 144 - Summing for an end - Box A - C (9 discs)


[] Dm Arkiv 1 - Seven Early Studies

[] Dm Arkiv 2 - Seven Inventions for Mixed Percussion

[] Dm Arkiv 3 - Sometime Live (4 Discs)

[] Phm Arkiv 1 - Fonejackker

[] Em Arkiv 1 - What number added to one

[] Em Arkiv 2 - Electra Version B


[] Arkiv 15 - Perpetuum Mobile Live

[] Arkiv 16 - One Afternoon in April

[] Arkiv 17 - Ho Hum Studies

[] Arkiv 18 - Julian and Camilla - Close now

[] Arkiv 19 - Julian and Maria

[] Arkiv 20 - Day Floressent


So on this ‘shelf’ of my works, as it were : as my British Library Edition - we will have my 143 albums - the five working Genres though the five Chronological Groups including the Arkiv Box at 113. Then as Album 144 we have the 3 boxes ‘Summing for an end’. Following that are six blue jacketed Arkiv albums - the Dm, Phm and the Em Arkiv and 6 yellow jacketed Arkiv albums. Toping off all that are my 21 Collaborations and all their albums - indexed A - U. And that is my life. What anybody will ever make of it I can’t say - suffice to say it is.


- The Dm Genre -

An early reorganization of my music research interests had defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this case Dm, music for Drums of various kinds. By Convention Dm.

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, Metal Percussion music, or MPm. The third of five is the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, or MSEP. The last genre is Electronic music, Em, taking the longest processing detour from an original acoustic source.

Album numbers 96 to the End [that is to my last numbered album] - form my Fifth ‘Group’ - a 5th time division across my Genres, my Outer Blue Group. The End being what it will be, but I have no plans, at the time of writing, in August 2020, to number any further albums, the given End being 142. This all builds on the foundational 'Blue Cherry Group' [where I had introduced my 5 areas of research interest] and the big 'New Horizon Group' - [where I explored to see where these five genres were leading me]. There then seemed to be a ‘band of gold’ across my discography. My Golden Band Group, that mark a particularly successful time for me. The albums that follow that, 76 to the End, are a ‘Blue Horizon’ - after the phrase ‘blue sky research’ - the ‘Blue Horizon Group.’ For convenience, I divided this Huge area into the Inner and the Outer Blue. So my Fourth Group is the Inner Blue Group. Then a Fifth and last Group builds upon that - my outer Blue Horizon - or Outer Blue Group.

There are thirteen Dm albums in the Outer Blue Group: Dm 15 - Dm 27. The Dm Arkiv album ‘Sometime live’ is not numbered.

Albums Dm 15 - 17 continue to document my ‘W’ studio sessions for Drum - with the Complete W Dances - spread between the three. Together with album Dm 14 in the Previous Group they form an important set documenting my Dm work at that Studio - with Dancer Choreographer Joanna Geldard in our Etuda collaboration. As Etuda we recorded two further albums - Percussion W and Intonation W.

These sessions were also important to me for three large Solo Drum sonatas - nos. 8, 9 & 10. Nos. 9 & 10 are on the albums in this Group. Confusingly, no 8 is in the previous group. Just logistics and chronology - it missed the cut. It is on album Dm 14. Years later I recorded there again, this time with my Ensemble D’juil - cellist David Dhonau and Concert Flautist Sara Minelli - becoming our album D’juil 25 ‘Trio in five Parts.’ So . . .

[] Album Dm 15 Sn for Solo Drum no. 9 - together with the first of the W Dances.

[] Album Dm 16 W Dances 8 - 14 - pieces for Joanna Geldard to experimentally dance to.

[] Album Dm 17 the Sn for Solo Drum no. 10 [of the 12] - together with the last of the W Dances.

Albums Dm 18 - 21 are sets of works with conceptual twists.

[] Album Dm 18 Zen Yen Zen is a set of Meditations for Drum and Wood Block - or did you imagine that.

[] Album Dm 19 Metrognomics - Three pieces where I make you think a metrognome goes out of phase with me - in live acoustic recordings.

[] Album Dm 20 Table music - a suite of pieces performed on the Leather skins of Books, on a table - with a contact mike in a hard resonant room. Stretching a point I think to say it was drum music. It is MPm by the definition ‘Anything other than Drums. it is though percussion on akin - so what defines a drum ? Skin or resonation - this has both. I set out to re-imagine a drum - and that is why this is still Drum music.

[] Album Dm 21 Konnyek - is a Drum Part - I recorded for Serbian Pianist Marina Vesic to respond to, for our collaboration ‘Konnyek’ - I kept this part as music in itself - as an album for me. In 2020 German wind specialist Marcus Wenninger added a flute part to make the album ‘Music in the wake of Konnyek’ for our Wenninger Broadhurst Collaboration.

Albums Dm 22 to 25 are a complex but important bunch with a frivolity here and there. Dm 22 and 24 are more conventional recordings but are very difficult multimovement pieces. Inventions that touch the limit of drumming possibility, in live acoustic performance. Inbetween them is another conceptual work Dm 23 Drum Mantra - with Maria Finch - that goes way beyond live human performance. Chronology is an awkward Mantra. Dm 25 ends the Drum Sonata series with an 11th and 12th Sn.

[] Album Dm 22 Fifth inventions for Djembe - a fifth set, of growlingly difficult multi movement progression - for my signature instrument - in a syntax of figuration.

[] Album Dm 23 Drum Mantra - a fantastic feature I made with fellow drummer Maria Finch for the rattle and hum of it. It fits here for being at an edge with perception.

[] Album Dm 24 Sixth Inventions for Djembe. I have tried each time, in each set of inventions - to push ever further - till now I run along the edge of intelligibility. This is the last of this series - it isn’t possible to go any further along this course and say anything with it - I find a limit of perception. The Six sets of inventions for this instrument form the core of my Drum music - alongside the twelve Sonatas for Solo Drum.

[] Album Dm 25 Sonatas for Solo Drum nos. 11 and 12 - the Solo Drum Sonata was at the core of my Drum music since the very beginning. Now fittingly, at the end, are the last two. Unlike the Inventions for Djembe I didn’t peruse difficulty for its own sake. In them I pursued a performative ideal for the sake of music in itself - only the Cannonical no. ‘12’ has brought them to an end.

[] Album Dm Arkiv Sometime live - a summation of live pieces.

Albums Dm 26 and 27 are as chalk and cheese.

[] Album Dm 26 Double Up a set of album length Studio pieces that blow the notion of Drumming music out of the water.

[] Album Dm 27 In an English Parish Church - live in that is. In a Church near me, I helped out at the Summer fete, by giving a performance in the Church. With a wonderful acoustic to play into and many noises off I close my numbered Dm Genre. What a journey it was.


Outer Blue Group - Dm []

DCM 096 Em 38 -- Blue Dark Marine
DCM 097 MSEP 22 -- Sn for Solo Vc 1, 2

[] DCM 098 Dm 15 -- Dm Sn no 9. 9 []

DCM 099 MSEP 23 -- Sn & St for S. Vc

[] DCM 100 Dm 16 -- W Dan. 8 -14 []

DCM 101 Em 39 -- Dodecette
DCM 102 MSEP 24 -- Luigi

[] DCM 103 Dm 17 -- Dm Sn no.10 []

DCM 104 MPm 12 -- Hammermusic
DCM 105 MSEP 25 -- Consort m. for Strs
DCM 106 MPm 13 -- 45’23 - Mp solo

[] DCM 107 Dm 18 -- Zen Yen Zen []
[] DCM 108 Dm 19 -- Metrognomics []

DCM 109 MSEP 26 -- Nabucco - Om
DCM 110 EM 40 -- Profusion
DCM 111 Em 41 -- Cant for P C
DCM 112 Phm 12 -- Past for wind gr.
DCM 113 Arkiv -- Arkiv
DCM 114 Em 42 -- Funeral Music
DCM 115 MSEP 27 -- TUOE [Sym 2]
DCM 116 MSEP 28 -- Sin Vit [Sym 3]
DCM 117 MSEP 29 -- Symphony 4

[] DCM 118 DM 20 -- Table music []
[] DCM 119 Dm 21 -- Konnyek []

DCM 120 MSEP 30 -- Codasolo

[] DCM 121 Dm 22 -- 5th Inv for Dj []
[] DCM 122 Dm 23 -- Drum Mantra []

DCM 123 MSEP 31 -- Symphony 5

[] DCM 124 Dm 24 -- 6th Inv for Dj []

DCM 125 MPm 14 -- Footfall A & B
DCM 126 MPm 15 -- Inv for Steel Casing
DCM 127 MPm 16 -- Imp in 4 and 3 Pts
DCM 128 MPm 17 -- Six Sns. for Metal P.
DCM 129 MPm 18 -- Inv for Industrial Unit
DCM 130 MPm 19 -- Now is N. t. T. f Dan
DCM 131 MPm 20 -- Parellelia
DCM 132 MSEP 32 -- Organum
DCM 133 MPm 21 -- Perfor in Plastic
DCM 134 Em 43 -- Geut - B Version
DCM 135 Em 44 -- Vib. Blue Light
DCM Ark Em Arkiv -- What nu. Added to

[] DCM 136 Dm 25 -- Sn for S. Dm 11 &12 []

DCM 137 MSEP 33 -- They Make Music

[] DCM 138 Dm 26 -- Double Up + Per PP []
[] DCM Ark Dm Arkiv -- Sometime Live []
[] DCM 139 Dm 27 -- In an English Pa Ch []
[] DCM Ark Dm Arkiv -- Seven Early Studies []

DCM 140 MPm 22 -- Quarlium
DCM 141 MSEP 34 -- A Little Less than K.
DCM 142 MSEP 35 -- Gregorious A & B
DCM 143 MSEP 36 -- Entangled A.B & C


The DCM album numbers list volumes in a [for the most part]
chronological edition - the ‘DCM Broadhurst Edition’ - Prepared for the British Library in 2020. The volumes or albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed from the start to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my individual works in order of Completion.