Wide open, the sweep and curve of gravity draws swerves out of the body. The dust that patterns remote points appears near: veined boulders, icebergs calved into air, sheets of dirty purple glass cornering into one another. A finger traces through the mist and repeats, trying to settle at a place of no dimensions full […]
By Chris
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Also tagged 2014, chamber, flute
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All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, […]
By Chris
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Also tagged 2013, bass clarinet, clarinet, ensemble, flute, guitar, percussion, saxophone, tenor saxophone, violin, voice
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But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and […]
Taking ‘Frühlingstraum’ from Schubert’s Winterreise as its starting point, Icebloom is a miniature that attempts to address some of the relationships detailed in the song’s text. Wilhelm Müller’s poem presents a vignette of absence, imagination and memory, and it is the relationship between absence and presence that is glanced at in Icebloom’s brief moments: liminal sounds […]
Driven by an urge to find ways of combining the quiet, tactile spaces I have been becoming increasingly fond of with something more forceful and volatile, Wege & Waldstille in some ways combines ideas from various strands of my work from the last couple of years. In trying to frame liminal, delicate soundworlds with more […]