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Scott McLaughlin (b.1975) is an Irish composer and improviser based in Huddersfield. He started out as a shoegaze/experimental guitarist before studying music in his 20s at University of Ulster, then MA/PhD at University of Huddersfield (with Christopher Fox, PA Tremblay, Bryn Harrison, and James Saunders). Currently, Scott lectures in composition at the University of Leeds. His music focuses on phenomena of sound, on contingency and indeterminacy in instruments, and performers responding-to and working-with that agency of the instrument. His work has been performed by Zubin Kanga, Heather Roche, Mira Benjamin, Apartment House, 麻豆官网首页入口 SSO, Explore Ensemble, and others.

“My work is about the physical nature of sound; the contingent ways that acoustic phenomena unfold in time to form patterns shifting between predictability and unpredictability, and how we perceive pattern and organisation in sound. Mostly I work with soloists and small ensembles, focussing on patterns that emerge from the less stable types of sound, asking the players to surf on the edge of what the instrument might do, responding to the instrument’s own agency and ‘desires’. The orchestra multiplies this because it is both many instruments and a single giant instrument, allowing for different layers of possibility.”