SAM HAYDEN PRESENCE/ABSENCE Trio EKL ELISION / Eugene Ughetti ensemble mosaik / Enno Poppe NMC D168 • Debut Discs is a new 4-year series in collaboration with BA (Hons) Graphic Design students at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. • The work of new designers showcased alongside the music of a younger generation of composers highlights the emerging talent and connections between the two arts forms. • The cover designs were exhibited at the series press launch event on 7 June. • The finals designs for the 12 releases in this series were selected by a judging panel including composer Colin Matthews, cover designer for 4AD Vaughan Oliver and Guardian/Radio 3 journalist Tom Service. • Debut Discs has the ambassadorial support of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Sam Hayden studied composition with Martin Butler, Michael Finnissy and Jonathan Harvey at the University of Sussex, and Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory, Den Haag. He has been the recipient of many awards, including first prize in the 1995 Benjamin Britten International Competition, Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship (2001), enabling him to work with Brian Ferneyhough at Stanford University and won fi rst prize in the 2003 Christoph Delz Foundation Composers' Competition. Hayden’s complex and arresting trio for fl ute, violin and percussion, system/error, is coupled with two large-scale works performed by Ensemble Mosaik and his newest work misguided written for ELISION. The delicate schismatics for solo electric violin and computer is available as a free bonus track download. TRACK LISTING 1 system/error 16’29 Trio EKL 2 presence/absence 15’00 ensemble mosaik/ Poppe 3-8 misguided 20’10 ELISION / Ughetti 9 Die Modularitäten 20'31 ensemble mosaik / Poppe NMC Recordings are distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading, P.O.Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone (03) 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile (03) 9444 6879