Browse: Dillon, J (composer)

Dillon, who has latterly worked at IRCAM, doesn’t over-egg the electronics, knowing that a light touch is more effective than pell-mell indulgence. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

The book teems with subtle cross-references, like the sudden reappearance in the last volume of the
amamzingly Debussian gesture that launched the whole cycle. There are other echoes, too, from... — BBC Music Magazine More…

the album's title-work by Rebecca Saunders is an interior monologue which, thanks to Ballon's advocacy, seems to bypass the executant and travel deep within the mind and body of the instrument:... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016 More…

[This release lends] a softness and amenability by the sheer guitar sonority, of the old, intimidating “New Complexity” movement…Brian Ferneyhough’s seven-part Kurze Schatten II seems to entail... — Sunday Times, January 2016 More…

…Dillon's music, with its rich weave of aggressive eloquence and obsessively evolving sound-patterns, is fully equal to the task of making the turbulent ritual seem real to the ears alone. The... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 More…