all that dust is an independent record label producing a small number of high-quality contemporary music releases each year. The label aims to support the artists we work with by providing an inexpensive but high-quality recording experience, and to offer our listeners a small but lovingly crafted catalogue of new music.
all that dust was launched in 2018 and is run by composer Newton Armstrong, soprano Juliet Fraser and pianist Mark Knoop who together have a wealth of experience in the recording studio as performer, engineer or producer. The catalogue seeks to represent a balance of contemporary classics (sometimes recorded in new ways), established living composers and composers of the emerging generation.
Dimitri Djuric
The team
Newton Armstrong is a composer, electronics performer and occasional builder of electronic musical instruments. Much of his work focuses on forms of music-making that emerge in the composed interactions between people, technologies and their environments. His music has been performed at festivals and events such as Darmstadt, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Festival of Exiles (Berlin), What is Music? (Melbourne), Movement Research Festival (New York), Grønland Kammermusikkfestival (Oslo), Images Sonores (Liège), Ars Musica (Brussels) and Music at Villa Romana (Florence). As an engineer, he has recorded, mixed and mastered recordings for Hat Hut Records, Kairos and Sub Rosa. He teaches at City, University of London.
Soprano Juliet Fraser has a repertoire dominated by the very old and the very new. In new music she has performed as a guest soloist with Ensemble Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Remix Ensemble, Talea, ICTUS and Plus-Minus, and has a duo with pianist Mark Knoop. She is also a core member of EXAUDI vocal ensemble, which she co-founded with James Weeks in 2002. Juliet regularly premieres and commissions new works, and has worked particularly closely with Rebecca Saunders, Bernhard Lang, Michael Finnissy, Matthew Shlomowitz, Andrew Hamilton and Cassandra Miller. Recordings of her solo repertoire have been released on Hat Hut Records, Kairos, another timbre and NMC.
Pianist and conductor Mark Knoop is known for his fearless performances and individual interpretations. He has commissioned and premiered countless new works and worked with many respected composers including Joanna Bailie, Bryn Harrison, Bernhard Lang, Matthew Shlomowitz, Jennifer Walshe and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. Mark performs with various ensembles including Plus-Minus, Apartment House and We Spoke: New Music Company. As a performer he has recorded music by John Cage (another timbre), Richard Beaudoin (New Focus Recordings), Karlheinz Stockhausen (Hat Hut), Matthew Shlomowitz and Peter Ablinger (Sub Rosa) and David Lumsdaine (Tall Poppies); he has also produced and edited recordings released on Kairos, Métier, NMC, Hat Hut and another timbre.