Chris Newman goes to King’s College, London, Bachelor of Music degree 1979. During this time meets Russian poet Eugene Dubnov with whom he translates Dubnov & other Russian poets (Chlebnikov, Mandelstam) for publication. This work proves seminal in his development, as translating, as in from one medium to another or from life into art becomes one of the most important aspects of his work. In 1979 starts writing poems which are his; moves to Cologne 1980. Studies with Mauricio Kagel in this town. Both Kagel & Cologne give him a sense of release from stylistic expectancy — he writes (music) which occurs to him regardless of how it might sound. Through a commission from ICA London he’s obliged to write his first piece of substantial size, & through this obligation finds a way to put different types of precomposed musical material together like a pathway, like passing through a passage. More