Aaron Cassidy

Aaron Cassidy (b. 1976) is a composer, conductor, teacher, record producer, and author. His work as a composer has, for over 20 years, focused on the development of innovative tablature notations that prioritise the physical, bodily, and mechanical aspects of sound-production in music. This approach is perhaps most notable in his work since 2010, which has created a multicoloured graphical notational practice that enables wildly multi-dimensional choreographic actions to be represented in a simple and non-stratified notational space, as well as through a parallel strand of activity that has explored new ways of working with what he refers to as ‘non-geometrical’ rhythm. His interest in notation has always been driven by an approach to musical material that is deeply physical, resulting in