This is Water!, for ensemble and tape, takes its name from the book of the same title by David Foster Wallace, subtitled ‘Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life’ (Little, Brown & co., New York, 2009). Here is the passage, which gives that book its name: There are these two young […]
By Chris
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Posted in Withdrawn, Works
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Also tagged 2010, audio, clarinet, electro, electronics, flute, percussion, string quartet, viola, violin
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Some words that I had nearby while writing this piece (courtesy of Roger Deakin, C.D. Wright, Seamus Heaney and Friedrich Dürrenmatt): Daydreaming has been my making and my undoing — like having a light at your back you can’t see but can still feel. ‘Since when,’ he asked, ‘Are the first and last line of any […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2010, audio, chamber, flute, voice
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For a while now, I have been interested in the edges of things: where things start and stop being, where they vanish, where one idea bleeds into another. This piece attempts to combine found sounds and streams of ‘noise’ that we carry with us in the background of our lives — radios, pop music, conversations, remembered places — only […]
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
Partly an experiment in textural and notational possibilities, Intensifications, for 2 violas and cello, is in three short movements. Over the course of the work we move through a spectrum of pitched to unpitched sounds and back again, pushing the instruments’ sonic possibilities to the edges of audibility and conventional technique. Each movement is governed […]
By Chris
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Posted in Withdrawn, Works
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Also tagged 2008, viola
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“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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Posted in Withdrawn, Works
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Also tagged 2008, flute, voice
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