Written for Sebastian Grand, 3 Sunsets is made up of three sharply contrasting miniatures aimed at establishing atmospheric vignettes and examining various aspects of contemporary piano technique. Each miniature examines extremes of speed and dynamic in a somewhat alienated, but hopefully ghostly landscape. 3 Sunsets was premiered on November 21 2008 by Sebastian Grand in […]
By Chris
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Tagged 2008, piano, solo
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My first tape piece, Books of Moses approaches issues of creativity and the collective consciousness. I wanted to examine the process by which symbols are assimilated and re-used by cultures and the piece develops opening material towards a new place unmistakably rooted in the past. Sound sources included carriers of semantic data such as books, […]
By Chris
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Also posted in Withdrawn
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Tagged 2008, electro, fixed media
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ritorno dal nulla [return from nothingness] danza degli uomini spenti [dance of dead men] come il vento sospinge le foglie secche [like the wind blows dry leaves] non vogliono, camminano draws its inspiration from a passage in Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo [If this is a man], which describes the music and soundscape of […]
Two things — a thousand things — meet face to face; two planets, the air on either side of a door, Leda and the Swan, Hemlock and Socrates, two hands, a river and the sea. Their orbits and collisions are history and life, the brushing and breaking of edges. Bodies, for oboe and piano, is about these meetings and […]
By Chris
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Also posted in Withdrawn
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Tagged 2008, oboe, piano
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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 […]