Michael Blake

Michael Blake (born in Cape Town in 1951) is a South African composer whose music draws on African instrumental practices, experimental film and visual patterning. He studied in Johannesburg and London and received a doctorate from Rhodes University. He lived in London from 1977 before returning to South Africa in 1998 to teach at Rhodes. His initiatives include the New Music Indaba, Growing Composers, the Sterkfontein Composers Meeting and the Bow Project. Ways to Put in the Salt was written for John Tilbury and premiered in 2002.