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, clarinet, ensemble, flute, guitar, 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 […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2012, bass clarinet, cello, chamber
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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Posted in Withdrawn, Works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, electro
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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Posted in Withdrawn, Works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, electro, electronics, flute, string quartet, viola, violin
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