“The Night is also a religious concern – and even more so – when I viewed the Moon and Stars through Herschell’s telescope – and saw that they were worlds. – ” — Lord Byron, from Detached Thoughts, Pisa c. October 1821. These few words, jotted down for no-one other than the author himself, seem far more tender and thoughtful than any of […]
By Chris
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Tagged 2008, cello, flute, voice
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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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Tagged 2008, electro, fixed media
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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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Tagged 2008, oboe, piano
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