Bastard Assignments has been featured in articles and profiles in the Guardian, the Telegraph, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and The Wire magazine. Read some of our profiles here:
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“Like ‘The Archers’ On Speed” , by Hugh Morris for VAN. 20 February 2025 “You can go into granular detail about Bastard Assignments’ working practices, and try to bottle the alchemical process of how group composition works. Or, you can sit back and marvel at the results: weird, risky, absurd, yet grounded and serious.” |
| „Family Dynamics“ Das britische Composer-Performer-Kollektiv Bastard Assignments for Deutschlandfunk, Atelier neuer Musik, by Leonie Reinecke broadcast 17 August 2024 (in German) |
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Bastard Assignments 1: Profile for Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, by Tim Rutherford-Johnson 27 July 2020 “[…] more like a laboratory than a rehearsal […]” |
| New Music at Home – Bastard Assignments, by Tom McKinney (with added sheep!) 25 June 2020 “[…] everything is so carefully worked out […] meticulously rehearsed […]” |
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Perverse Choreography and Virtuosic Lip-Synching: Who Are Performance Collective Bastard Assignments?, by Emily Bick Frieze Editorial, 10 October 2019 “The group […] push experimental composition to its limit” |
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There’s something about calling Bastard Assignments a ‘quartet’ which feels like is missing the point., interview with Michael Brailey VirtuallyReality FEATURE005, April 2019 “I think, in performance, the fact that we’ve spent so long working together comes across; there’s a weird family vibe that we often lean into.” |
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This Is a Score. This Is Another. This Is a Third. Now Form a Band, by Robert Barry Sounds Like Now, Issue 4, August 2017 “‘We want to just do it ourselves, in our own way’, Henderson told me, ‘and then, you know, fuck ’em, basically’.” |
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Family Unknown, by Robert Barry The Wire Issue 384, February 2016 [PDF, 1.1Mb] “Weirdness starts at home for London composer’ collective Bastard Assignments” |
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