The DCM Collaborative music, Cm Edition
The 21 Collaborations - Index A - U

[L] Wenninger Broadhurst
[L5] Avatar

[L5] Avatar - Our fifth album, and our First Double as a duo. Avatar is a big work - A Ritual in two parts, for two Clarinets and Degrees of Electronics. Part one is 'Waiting for Avatar' an anticipation, to be followed by the second disc, Part two - Avatar. .a Gordian knot of primeval woodwind as the rite.

So the brief 2012 text ran and hit the spot perfectly but for the 2023 British Library Edition we’ll expand on that somewhat. First the title Avatar - An embodiment to take to give bodily form - as in the embodiment or form of a Hindu God or Zeus as a Swan or here Markus Embodied as together with himself lonely as a cloud on a stage Dueting with himself - I am on stage with him as the rhythm.

So we have a ritual like the Rite of Spring that awaits the ritual [In the first part] and then in the second huge and complex duet we have the Avatar - the embodiment - the Dance - like a dancer - where we call up a primeval motion to whorl about the stage as in the rite of Spring - this is our Rite of Spring. A very important album for us.


[L4] Red Frame Blue - Now we are celebrating Herr Wenninger as Herr Clarinet. Markus records his playing solo Clarinet in disused spaces for the ambiance there of, to use with his Nora Volca Ensemble - So Works for clarinet and Clarinet Duet were on the cards. Here we have a Suite derived from his initial ideas in 'Red Frame1' an improvisation on a 'found score'. He searches out patterns and marks on surfaces in nature and the built environment, which he perceives as given Graphic score - to be read by him as music as if on composed page.

This I feel is a moot point - the composition of a Graphic score. It is I feel not sufficient for a composer to Claim the Compositional credit for the sound of their graphic score when recorded or given by a performer. They leave the heavy lifting to the performer and claim the credit - tt is at Best a Collaboration and possibly theft. It is the mind of the performer who gives the precise shape to that sound - an improvisation then - as Herr Wenninger here improvises on his ‘Found Score’ - a score without a composer.

I then, in my manner, took his improvisation, on that found notion and Com-posed with it - with its musicality, with his musicality to create another level in three further pieces - not of my possession - but of our collaboration.

For DCM the label a lot of music fell between WB’s first three Albums - Our Wenninger Triptych and this our fourth album - though not so long in time. There was [M] Anjelic 1 with Jurica Jelic and Marcus Beuter: [] Study no. 1 - Angel : Anderson Morning 2 - [] Cabaret Dada : D’juil 16 - [] Old Grey live : Anjelic 2 : [] Blood and the soil : - [N] - KONNYEK 1 - 3 with Marina Vesic: [] Sn for Pn & Percussion no. 1 - [] Sn for Pn & Percussion no. 2 ‘In Tears’ - [] Lady Blue Black (Oct. 2012) : and [O] - REG KEELING - Audio Book : [] A Winters Journey (Oct. 2012) : Eight Albums I total.

[L3] Rohre [Ger.] - 'Pipework'. Clatter and Bang - created to form part 3 of a Triptych of Saxaphonic discs - with 'First Reply to Markus as part 1 and our Decollement Horizon as Pt. 2 of - ‘The Wenninger Triptych. Each treating a set of thematic start points very differently. It is an Album in a real sense, because as a concept, and in its soundworld it is an advance on our Last Album Decollement Horizon. It is Strictly Album 3 - to split a ninth part of a hair. Each of the three parts is an album in and of itself. The Triptych as a notion that floats above our first three releases. We are exploring this notion of a larger work as we go.

Our thoughts here are for the sound of the larger members of the Sax family, of the vast array of rattling Pipework needed to produce each note, like the air ducting on a Berlin office block !

These first three albums stand alone as the Wenninger Triptych after JJM’s Breeze and just before Anjelic’s ‘Study no. 1 Angel. I was hoping there would be a string of studies but that was not to be - German Sound recordist Marcus Beuter really made this album for me ‘A first reply to Jurica’ to coaxes a parallel. Without him it didn’t really work. Jurica won’t mind me saying that, we were friend for years after. He is excited to be in the British Library - Study no. 1 Angel is a very good album. A worthy place to end this JJM block with. After it I heal the break with Leicester - recording a second album with Maureen Anderson as Anderson Morning - and the outrageous rooftop gig with Cellist David Dhonau as D’juil - our Sixteenth Album ‘Old Grey Live.’


- [K] - JJM With Markus Wenninger & Jurica Jelic : [] Breeze (August 2012).

- [L] - WENNINGER BROADHURST 1 - 3 - With Markus Wenninger : [] First Reply to Markus - [] Decollement Horizon - [] Rohre (August 2012).

- [M] - ANJELIC 1 - with Jurica Jelic and Marcus Beuter : [] Study no. 1 - Angel.


[L2] Decollement Horizon - Our second Album together, as Wenninger Broadhurst - Altosaxsophonist & winds Specialist Marcus Wenninger and Composer producer Julian Broadhurst.

A Decollement Horizon [his Title] is a particular kind of percussive injury, resulting in rock or flesh being torn away, The Horizon is then the status of the remaining body - be it rock or flesh. Markus is a medical man as well as an internationally Important Soloist. Our Decollement Horizon, in two parts, began life as two half hour alt sax sketches by Markus that he would challenge me to arrange and compose into a mutual understanding of one anothers Art. This was exciting new music for the both of us. Our first album ‘First Reply to Markus’ is just that - my first distillation of his complex material. This second Album sees important new distillations of new material. A second Response - warranting a separate second Album and hence - the second Part of a Triptych - ‘The Wenninger Triptych’ completed by soon after by a third Album ‘Rohre.’


[L1] First Reply to Markus - JJM was a project for a purpose, a collaboration with one aim, the singular remit of a concert length work from a short work of that name - and it didn’t hold the promise of a future. Berlin Based Wind Genius Markus Wenninger though offered great riches as a Duet. He did extra ordinary things - as an advanced and much in demand soloist, of which people said - that there was nothing you could write that he couldn’t play. As a soloist he would find scores in marks on objects ‘found Scores’ in the built environment and play them. He would improvise to the wind in abandoned buildings - my kind of wonderful I’d say. He said to me ‘what will you need me for ?’

I asked him for some of those improvisations - that I would then study and find structures and figures within to draw out and configure as an act of Com-position-ing - of Com-Provisation - directly through him in a new way of working for me.

This first shortish piece, this First ‘Reply to Markus’ is a landmark in my - in our work. Like whale song Markus said. It felt organic like it had been throughcomposed - it had been, but with sound rather than notation - as if to specify nuance. I had no intention of it ever being given live - the recording is the Work - not just a recording of it. At the time I called it a studio disc where we used to write a days work to disc but it is much more than that it was a new kind of landmark for a new collaboration. It would become the first part of a Triptych of albums - the first three - a grouping in itself.

[] First Reply to Markus - [] Decollement Horizon - [] Rohre.

This collaboration would have a big future that would last years and see 15 albums.


"Some amazing sounds and mesmerising layering !" - Rasa Daukus - Australian Composer, Pianist and Director of music at Canberra University - 18th April 2016

At almost exactly the same time I turned to Jurica Jelic - the other partner in JJM and founded [M] Anjelic - JuliAN-Jelic which had a short but interesting run of two albums. JJM had broken into two viable parts. The Name JJM stuck with me as a subgroup of my DCM Label - as an on-line platform for International Collaboration.


[K1] -Leaving the fertile and well trodden lands of Leicester behind - I set out into the unknown - I had to make the break, it was time. There was nothing more for me there at that time [2012]. I was up for something completely fresh and found it in JJM.

K1] Breeze - A double Album of Concert music for Flute duet, music for minimal forces on a huge scale; created in a new three-way collaboration. JJM - who are, Croatian Composer Jurica Jelic ; English composer Julian Broadhurst and German Wind Specialist Markus Wenninger.

I heard this piece - Breeze and set out to find the Flautist - German Specialist Markus Wenninger and asked him if he was up for collaboration on it - rather with it. He was but said I needed to ask Croatian composer Jurica Jelic - so I did hence J - J - M, Jurica, Julian, Markus.

Jurica - for the original melodies, conception and primary composition, Markus for all Parts on all instruments and Julian for the over all conception, Design and preparation of concert scale works, mixing and postproduction. Jim Tetlow, Graphic Design. Cover Photograph Jurica Jelic.

Quoting from my British music page - “I Left the melting pot of Leicester UK - close to my home - for a first International collaboration - with the wonderful German Wind Virtuoso Markus Wenninger with, whom I would form multi album duo 'Wenninger Broadhurst' after an initial single album as a Trio 'JJM' with Croatian Composer Jurica Jelic. He gave me his wealth of experience as an internationally important wind specialist - catapulting WB into that stratosphere. As a composer it has been mind-bending to work with him.”


- JJM - The Album -

[] Breeze


- Wenninger Broadhurst - The Albums -

[] First Reply to Markus - [] Decollement Horizon - [] Rohre (August 2012) : [] Red Frame Blue : [] Avatar. (January 2013) : [] Lollapolusa - The lost Hour (Sep. 2013) : [] Black Star Music (December 2013). : [] The Unquestioned Answer : [] Virtual Glass : [] With Wisest Sorrow (November 2014) : [] Neble A : [] Neble B & C (March 2016) : [] Windhaus for Anna Music in the - in the wake of Beriom (October 2018) : [] Konnyek - for amplified Duet.


- Anjelic - The Albums -

[] Study no. 1 - Angel : [] Blood and the soil (October 2012).


- Wenninger Gaughan - The Album -

[] Her Infamy Sings


- The Collaborations in Chronological Order -

[A] Huddersfield Impromptu - with the Huddersfield Improvisation group - 1 album : [B] Tetlow & Broadhurst - with Jim Tetlow - 19 Albums + 3 Arkiv albums : [C] Etuda - with Choreographer Dr Joanna Geldard - 2 albums : [D] Revenge of the Umbrella People - 1 album + 2 Arkiv albums : [E] Anderson Morning - with flutist vocalist Maureen Anderson - 5 albums : [F] D'juil - with Cellist David Dhonau - 28 albums + 5 Arkiv Albums : [G] julian Broadhurst & composer Johannas Schafer - 2 albums : H] The Flying Saucers - 5 albums : [I] OLArJ - with Flautist vocal Artist Ola Szmidt and David Dhonau - 1 album : [J] OLAU - with Ola Szmidt - 4 albums : [K] JJM With Markus Wenninger & Jurica Jelic - 1 album: [L] Wenninger Broadhurst - With woodwind specialist Markus Wenninger - 15 albums : [M] Anjelic - with Jurica Jelic and Marcus Beuter - 2 albums : [N] Konnyek - with pianist Maria Vesic - 5 albums : [O] Poet Reg Keeling - Audio Book - 1 album : [P] Alisian - with English Harpist Alison Katy - 1 album : [Q] Lords of The Dance - with Percussionist Walt Shaw - 2 albums : R] National Steel Blue with Burnt Paw - 1 album : [S] Ensemble Et Au with Jim Tetlow and David Dhonau - 2 albums : [T] Accortumn - 1 album : [U] Sonn Jaa - with Composer Sonja Grossner - 1 album.


- The Complete DCM Collaboration -

- [A] - HUDDERSFIELD IMPROMPTU : [] Three Undirected Pieces (2007).

- [B] - TETLOW & BROADHURST 1 - 10. I Meet Jim Tetlow at Bambu club Leicester 11th July 2007, performed there together 18th July as T& B : [] Live at Bambu (July 2007) - [] Qua - [] Orn
[] Under Normandy Bridges - [] Bridges above Us - [] Live in a Drum Group ( break) [] Koncertat - [] Sn for Solo Vn and Electronics - [] Better Than Even (Break) [] The Measure of Autumn (late 2008).

- [C] - ETUDA :1 & 2. I meet Chorographer Joanna Geldard early 2009 : [] Intonation W - [] Percussion W.

- I Meet David Dhonau and Maureen Anderson 2009 -

- [D] - REVENGE OF THE UMBRELLA PEOPLE 1 - 3 with Johannas Schafer ( Dr C) : [] Live at Pineapple Peppermint (released 2011) - [] Voration 1 - [] Voration 2 ( released 2021 in my Arkiv Box).

- [E] - ANDERSON MORNING 1 with Maureen Anderson : [] Anderson Morning (2009).

Tetlow & Broadhurst : 11 - 12 : [] Celestation - [] Promise to Return (August-September 2009).

- [F] - D'juil with Cellist David Dhonau : 1 - 8 : [] Ola (2010) - [] Projections - [] Exhibition music (Break) [] I heard a Rumour - [] For That We Love - [] Winter Light (Break) - [] Emma (spring 2011) - [] Damian.

- [G] - julian Broadhurst & Johannas Schafer 1 & 2 : [] Dialogue with friends (June 2010 (pub. 2018) - [] Symphony C (Published 2021).

Tetlow & Broadhurst 13 : [] Tredecadent Voices (May 2011).

- [H] - THE FLYING SOURCES 1 - 5 - [] Out from Venus - [] Home to Venus - [] Live at Area 51 - [] Saucer Blues - [] Cup without a Saucer (All Discovered 2011+).

D'juil : 9 - 15 : [] Strata - [] Tapippio - [] Virtual Live - [] Gargamelle
[] Bebop - [] Helios - [] In Colour Live (December 2011).

- [I] - OLArJ - with Ola Szmidt & D. Dhonau: [] The Cord of Life (February 2012).

- [J] - OLAU : 1 - 4 - with Ola Szmidt : [] Cordeal - [] Honeybees - [] Bride By Her Bachelors, Even - [] Sztriped Ice (All March 2012).


- The Break with Leicester 2012 -


Founding Music with Markus Wenninger - Jurica Jelic - Marcus Beauter and Maria Vesic - on my JJM Label.

- [K] - JJM With Markus Wenninger & Jurica Jelic : [] Breeze (August 2012).

- [L] - WENNINGER BROADHURST 1 - 3 - With Markus Wenninger : [] First Reply to Markus - [] Decollement Horizon - [] Rohre (August 2012).

- [M] - ANJELIC 1 - with Jurica Jelic and Marcus Beuter : [] Study no. 1 - Angel.

Anderson Morning 2 : [] Cabaret Dada (released September 2012).

D'juil 16 : [] Leicester Old Grey Live (released September 2012).

Anjelic 2 : [] Blood and the soil (October 2012).

- [N] - KONNYEK 1 - 3 with Marina Vesic: [] Sn for Pn & Percussion no. 1 - [] Sn for Pn & Percussion no. 2 ‘In Tears’ - [] Lady Blue Black (Oct. 2012). .

- [O] - REG KEELING - Audio Book : [] A Winters Journey (Oct. 2012).

Wenninger Broadhurst 4 & 5 : [] Red Frame Blue (January 2013)
[] Avatar.

Tetlow & Broadhurst 14 : [] OBAH (February 2013).

Konnyek 4 : [] Sonate Concret (February 2013).

- [P] - ALISIAN - with English Harpist Alison Katy : [] Elvaston meadows (March 2013).

- [Q] - LORDS OF THE DANCE 1 & 2 with Percussionist Walt Shaw : [] Music for Metal Percussion - [] Electric Surface (Both May 2013).

D’juil Arkiv : [] Sunrise Festival Live (Aug 2013) [Desk release 2022].

Wenninger Broadhurst 6 : [] Lollapolusa - The lost Hour (Sep. 2013).

D'juil 17 : [] Elemental String Music (October 2013).

Wenninger Broadhurst 7 : [] Black Star Music (December 2013).

Konnyek 5: [] Horizon (2013).

Tetlow & Broadhurst 15 : [] Venus & Adonis (June 2014).

D'juil 18 - 20: [] Belladonna - [] Arkiv - Art London Live (August 2014) - [] Arkiv - Art London Live [released 2022] - [] Plateau - [] Vingt (June - October 2014).

Wenninger Broadhurst 8 - 10: [] The Unquestioned Answer - [] Virtual Glass - [] With Wisest Sorrow (November 2014).

Tetlow & Broadhurst 16 & 17: [] Frozen - [] Sirius A (late 2014/January 2015).

Anderson Morning 3 -: [] AM3 (May 2015).

- [R] - NATIONAL STEEL BLUE - with Burnt Paw : [] Blues Suite 1 & 2 (June 2015).

Wenninger Broadhurst 11 & 12: [] Neble A
[] Neble B & C (March 2016).

- [S] - EMSEMBLE ET AU 1: [] Kornu (January 2017).

Tetlow & Broadhurst 18 and 19 : [] Improbable Live
[] Bau Out (from Kornu session January 2017).

- [T] - ACCORTUMN - with D. Dhonau & M. Sole and Mike Sole :
[] Autumn - Winter (January 2017).

D'juil 21 & 22 : [] Later Blue - [] PRecital (early 2017).

- [U] - Sonn JAA - with Composer Sonja Grossner : [] Wind and Whatever (October 2017).

Ensemble Et Au 2 : [] One Flew Over (July 2018).

D'juil 23 & 24: [] In Nomine - [] Textures on an English Ground (Autumn 2018).

Wenninger Broadhurst 13: [] Windhaus for Anna - in the wake of Beriom(October 2018).

Anderson Morning 4 - [] They Make Music [An Opera for voices]. On my MSEP Discography (2019).

S'ra-D'juil 25 : [] Trio in Five Parts (2019).

Wenninger Broadhurst 14 & 15: [] Konnyek - for amplified Duet - [] Music in the Wake of Konnyek - Wenninger Solo (August 2020).

D’juil 26 - 28: [] Mir A & B - [] Open Your Eyes ( Dhonau Solo) - [] Breathe First A, B & C (2021).

Anderson Morning 5: [] AM5 (February 22).