Recordings were made at the park next to my flat on the 19th and 20th of August 2023. The title references the fact I was, at the time, getting ready to sell my flat and move somewhere new. 

Both the notated composition and the fixed media part were completed shortly after. The fixed media part features recordings of children (including a wonderfully curious girl who kept on playing with my recording equipment), me striking the top of a metal bin with my hands as if it were a drum, and a man playing basketball on his own. 

The notated piano part consists of 23 chords. The numbers associated with these chords (23, 9, 6 ,8) and the common pitch (G) are derived from my address, postcode, and the fact my flat is on the 6th floor of the building.

This is just a demo recording, and will eventually be replaced by a new piano performance, recorded professionally. If you would like to play it, feel free to contact me and I will send you the materials.

Goodbye Bins And Benches

TOM HARROLD is an award-winning Scottish composer whose music has received worldwide performances by a multitude of performing groups and artists.
Described as "brazen...bold...confident" [the Guardian] and "packed with incessant energy" [the Scotsman], Tom's recent output includes DARKENED DREAMS (a Proms commission which was broadcast live simultaneously on BBC Radios 3 & 4), NIGHTFIRES, a BBC commission that is "...among the most exciting pieces by a Scottish composer in the last 25 years..."[the Herald], and RAZE, which opened the Last Night of the BBC Proms.

Goodbye Bins And Benches

Ben Gaunt