{{short description|British composer (born 1974)}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Ian Vine''' (born 3 January 1974 in Portsmouth, England) is a British composer. Vine grew up in Libya and Hong Kong.<ref name="Guard1">{{cite news |last1=Petridis |first1=Alexis |last2=Clements |first2=Andrew |last3=Fordham |first3=John |last4=Walter |first4=John L |title=Sounds amazing |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/nov/29/1 |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> He studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert and privately with Simon Holt.<ref name="Guard1"/><ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last1=Clements |first1=Andrew |title=Radius |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jan/10/classicalmusicandopera |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=10 January 2008}}</ref>
There are traces Near and Far Eastern modalities as well as gestural and formal elements in his music.<ref name="Guard1"/> ''SIRI'' (1997), for solo percussion with electronics, uses a rhythmic and structural language found in the highly ritualised percussion music of Japan and Korea.
''writing on water'' (1999-), commissioned by Matthew Herbert and released on the Accidental label, is an expanding collection of short (sometimes only 20 seconds long) works using recorded acoustic instruments; and ''shadow grounds'' (1999), commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for the ensemble recherche as part of their ''In Nomine Broken Consort Book'', a three-minute non-miniature of suspended sound.<ref name="Guard1"/>
His ''three black moons'' (1999), commissioned by the London Sinfonietta,<ref name="Guard1"/> was described by ''The Guardian'', '...the most striking piece takes its title from an Alexander Calder mobile - its magical floating sonorities had a Feldmanesque beauty.'
''The Guardian'' has written of him that "Vine's music, clearly influenced by Morton Feldman, is beautifully imagined and precisely focused".<ref name="Guard1"/>
Vine is the artistic director of new music ensemble Radius.<ref name="Guardian"/>
==Key works== * ''white river sand'' (2002) - large ensemble * ''espinas'' (1999) - large ensemble * ''siri'' (1997) and ''siri2'' (2000) - for solo percussion and percussion quartet respectively
==Recordings== * ''forty works for Richard'', self-released, not on label (2011) * ''held/always/immer/gehalten'', self-released, not on label (2012) * ''frieze/static form/division'', self-released, not on label (2014) * ''forty objects/forty-five objects'', self-released, not on label (2015) * ''interstices'', self-released, not on label (2015) * ''copies I-V'', self-released, not on label (2016)
===works appear on=== * ''writing on water'' (2000), on You Are Here, Accidental Records (2003) * ''shadow grounds'' (1999), The Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book, ensemble recherche, Kairos (2004) * ''ocre oscuro'' (2007), on Jerwood Series 5, London Sinfonietta Label (2009)
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==External links== * {{official|url=https://www.ianvine.com}} * {{discogs artist}} * {{AllMusic|id=mn0000062727}} * {{IMDb name|nm9561061}} * [https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/composers/ian-vine Ian Vine] nmcrec.co.uk * [https://avantmusicnews.com/2013/07/30/amn-reviews-ian-vine-heldalwaysimmergehalten/ AMN Reviews: Ian Vine – held/always/immer/gehalten] avantmusicnews.com 30 July 2013
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