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 […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2012, cello, electronics, piano, violin
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Recently I have been interested in cartography and the important role it plays in how we comprehend the spaces we inhabit. An atlas is a collection of maps, often several maps show the same area but map different details and data, each time revealing another facet of the land’s geography. Small Atlas lays out a […]
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 […]
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, cello, flute, voice
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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 […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2007, bass flute, cello, percussion
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