Music for the Nanoqueen (from OPAQUE) – if you like, this is a concert suit of the music for chaos (though it is more hysteria, mania, thought changes, radiating energy, explosive, interrupted, impetuous, and again hysterical) – and of course digital and processed, like the Queen herself. Importantly, towards the latter third of the piece,…
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Colour Songs (2003) Mashed up with dance tracks originally created with a creative bursary from the Scottish Arts Council (2008) Colour Songs originals: 35 mins. for soprano, flute (alto, piccolo), Bass Clarinet, (Clarinet), VLn, Vla, Vc. Performed by illegal harmony for recording. 5 songs – Weathers, You Must Never Go Against The Sun, The Colours…
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reconstructed piccolo: all the sounds in this work are realisations of extracted and digitally treated sounds all derived from the piccolo.
Paternoster is a new work composed from an original field recording, recorded by German field recordist and sound artist Marcus Kuerten. As Marcus wrote to me “The location recording contains the sound material of a paternoster ride; very rare and unique material of warm, industrial sounds of an efficient but antiquated vehicle with definite and…
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Commissioned by An Tuireann Art Centre with subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council. Stillness in Movement was specially commissioned to form part of an instillation with nine oil paintings created by Marc Yeats. The music is recorded onto CD and was played continually throughout the duration of the exhibition (2nd. October – 12th November 2004)…
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Commissioned by An Tuireann Art Centre with subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council. Stillness in Movement was specially commissioned to form part of an instillation with nine oil paintings created by Marc Yeats. The music is recorded onto CD and was played continually throughout the duration of the exhibition (2nd. October – 12th November 2004)…
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Cerberus (2008) acoustic multi-track For four trombones (bass trombone and three tenor trombones) and percussion. Studio version for three pre-recorded tenor trombones plus pre-recorded bass trombone with digital percussion. Duration: 15 minutes Commissioned and recorded by Dirk Amrein. Note: Due to an upgrade in computer systems some years ago, this work is awaiting reformatting and…
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Songs from the abattoir (Atavus album- 2006) acoustic multi-track For clarinets and cellos (low strings) featuring Alison Waller (clarients) and Su-a-Lee (cellos). Multitracked and engineered by Marc Yeats. This piece is designed for CD listening and not acoustic performance. Duration: 13.24
For three sopranos, three alto flutes and sound environment featuring Natalie Raybould (voice) and Carla Rees (alto flutes). Sound environment also composed and engineered by Marc Yeats. This piece is designed for CD listening and not acoustic performance. Duration: 13.58
‘On a Theme of Hermes’ (2011) will launch in late May 2012 in Poole, Dorset; in June around the Bristol Floating Harbour; and in early July in Wroclaw, Poland. Our delivery partners are the Arts Unit, Poole Borough Council; Hamworthy Library, Poole; the Lighthouse Poole; MShed Bristol; Arnolfini; the Bristol Ensemble; the Electrostatic Festival; the…
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