The one-day conference run by the RMA Music and/as Process study group is themed around patterns, with presentations covering a range of subjects from Hip-hop as musical process to old and new minimalisms, and from sight-reading pattern recognition, to compositional structures as dramaturgical tools. The keynote is given by Jennie Gottschalk, author of the recent Bloomsbury book ‘Experimental Music since 1970’, and Paul Cassidy will give a solo performance of Steve Reich’s Piano Phase in the evening concert.