Sketches in Silence

My first work to be per­formed in the UK after ar­riving there to study, Sketches in Silence is an in­tensely quiet ex­per­i­ment in per­form­ance and the re­la­tion­ship between mu­si­cians’ ges­tures and sound. It con­sists of large amounts of si­lence (in­cluding si­lent ges­tures), white noise and very oc­ca­sional flickers of pitched ma­terial. I later wrote more about this work and si­lence after fin­ishing Wege & Waldstille in 2010.

  • Instrumentation

    • Flute
    • Cello
    • Percussion

  • Details

    • Duration: 5′-10′
    • First performance: 16 March 2007, Gavin Osborn, Alice Purton & Alex Plim, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, Manchester, UK