something golden in the night represents a first attempt to transform the traditional concert hall context through an abstract scenography that begins to construct a new context within the framework of a classical concert. A saxophonist is accompanied in their performance by a play of shadows coming from a sculpture, the movement of which is […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2012, saxophone, solo
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Combining a sonic vocabulary that fuses concrete sounds of the city with more abstract material, La leggerezza delle città hopes to explore and expose the weightless clarity of certain acoustic experiences whose rapid incisions into the listener’s perception leave crisply outlined yet multifarious and ultimately ineffable impressions, engaging in a dialogue between the sonic reality […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2010, fixed media, tape
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Friedrich Engels lived in Manchester for more than 20 years, during that time receiving many visits from Karl Marx who was living in London. Engels led a double life as both manager of his father’s cotton factory and political radical, and the harsh conditions of workers in Mancunian industry formed a key influence on his ideas […]
By Chris
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Posted in Withdrawn, Works
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Also tagged 2010, percussion
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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Posted in Withdrawn, Works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, clarinet, electronics, flute, percussion, string quartet, viola, violin
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