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, percussion, saxophone, tenor saxophone, violin
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Monday, 10 September 2012
This short work is part game piece, part physical performance, part sound. At the heart of it lies the question: what happens when we stop breathing? The exhaustion of a physical limit — the breath, the bow — is deployed as a mechanism controlling what we hear and how long we hear it for. The original text is in French, […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2012, chamber, 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 […]
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, chamber, flute
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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 […]