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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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2013, bass clarinet, cello, ensemble, flute, guitar, percussion, saxophone, tenor saxophone, violin, voice
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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 […]
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Posted in Withdrawn, Works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, cello, electro, electronics, flute, percussion, string quartet, viola, violin
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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 […]