About Larry
- Teaching composition at UG, PGT and MPhil/PhD levels
- Examining and auditioning within the School of Composition
- Teaching in the School of Academic Studies at UG level and PGT levels
- Composition representative on the Research Committee and Academic Board
Dr Larry Goves is a composer based in the UK. His music has been perfomed, broadcast and released internationally.
He founded, writes for and performs electronics with the experimental music group the house of bedlam. They have performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Faster than Sound 2008, the Purcell Room, for nonclassical at Hoxton’s Macbeth and the Purcell Room, in the Aldeburgh Festival and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. In December 2009 they attended a residency at Scotland’s prestigious Cove Park supported by the PRS Foundation and the Arts Council followed by concerts in Glasgow and Manchester.
He has also worked on a variety of installation projects including; an installation for Aldeburgh Music’s Technology Residencies (building instruments and writing new music in collaboration with Sound Intermedia’s David Sheppard); a music for a film and installation with artist Aura Satz (for the Tatton Park Biennial 2012); and music for Dr Beau Lotto’s wall of 88 speakers with corresponding visual (for The Brain Unravelled, an installation at the Wellcome Institute in 2009).
He has been awarded a Jerwood-Aldeburgh Opera Writing Fellowship, been shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in composition and has been a recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award for Composition.
Larry studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert and at Southampton University with Michael Finnissy. He is a Composition Lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music and composition tutor for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
Research
Current and Future Research
Larry’s main research interests are in acoustic, electronic and electroacoustic composition; creative collaboration and associated methodologies and curenty in performer interaction/coordiantion can operate as a compositional parameter.
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
Principal study composition
Composition techniques
Performance and repertoire studies
Electronic music
Performance art and music
Postgraduate Teaching
Principal study composition
Composition seminars
Repertoire research
Research Supervision
Current supervision of PhDs:
- Rosie Middleton
- Cee Haines
- James Waide
- Meriel Price
- Suting Han
- Songhao Yao
Completed PhDs:
- Bofan Ma, On dialogues between sound and performance physicality: Compositional Experimentation, Embodiment, and Placement of the Self.
- Simon Knighton, Sound Sculptures, Dynamic Systems and Natural Environments: A Portfolio of Compositions with Critical Commentary.
Research Outputs
Written Outputs
Was machen Komponistinnen den ganzen Tag?
ARTWORK: LARRY GOVES
Goves, L., Apr 2020, In: Tempo.Practice Research/Compositions
an empty house
Goves, L. (Composer), 11 Sept 2026Borneo Rivers (3)
Goves, L. (Composer), 2024Coming Up for Air: Concerto
Goves, L. (Composer), Williams, K. (Performer), Aszodi, J. (Composer), Baldyga, O. (Composer), Beentjes, C. (Composer), Beugger, M. G. (Composer), Breeze, A. (Composer), Campbell, E. (Composer), Haines, C. (Composer), Chase, S. (Composer), Coates, O. (Composer), Czerowin, C. (Composer), bear, C. (Composer), Cully, E. (Composer), Dring, C. (Composer), Ellis, P. (Composer), Erwin, M. (Composer), Fox, C. (Composer), Haigh, R. (Composer) & Hale, L. (Composer) & 28 others, , 2024The Curious Codes of Silence
Goves, L. (Composer), 2024Gennel/Ginnel/Guinnel, Loppy, and Love
Goves, L. (Composer) & Chingonyi, K., 2023Crow rotations
Goves, L. (Composer) & Welton, M., 2022Suburban Cinematic
Goves, L. (Composer), 2022Borneo rivers (2)
Goves, L. (Composer) & Roche, H. (Performer), 2021Professional Activity
Public Presentations and Performance
RNCM PRiSM Future Music #4
Howard, E. (Organiser), De Roure, D. (Member of programme committee), Salem, S. (Organiser), Goves, L. (Organiser), Ma, B. (Participant), Laidlow, R. (Participant), Steinberg, M. (Participant), Knighton, S. (Participant), Sargen, E. (Participant) & Appleby, A. (Participant)
Sonic Waves, Music and Sound Beyond Borders one day symposium
Goves, L. (Participant)
Multimodal performer interaction as a creative compositional parameter: projecting text, sound and movement
Goves, L. (Speaker / presenter)
Other
Advanced Composition, Dartington Summer School
Goves, L. (Other)
Guest Director of Open Score commissioning series
Goves, L. (Participant)
Being Human Festival of the Humanities
Goves, L. (Participant)
Composition, alternative performance, and performance art (CAPPA)
Goves, L. (Other)
Ulysses Programme/Snape Maltings
Goves, L. (Participant)
New Music North West
Goves, L. (Participant)
Decontamination – research-focussed concert series
Goves, L. (Participant)