Conch-ous Listening was recorded at Brighton Beach. This piece is an exploration of mindfulness.  Through using recordings of the sea I explore how the mind “disengages” as one surveys a seascape.

Conch-ous Listening

Recording Taken from a performance at Goldsmiths College with the Goldsmiths Sinfonia conducted by Rebecca Miller. I performed this as winner of the Goldsmiths Concerto Prize. This song tells the story of a Cuckoo and Nightingale arguing about who is the greater singer. The decide to have a competition and the cuckoo suggests the pompous donkey to be the judge. He proclaims the cuckoo to be the winner. The ridiculousness of his choice is Mahler's jibe at his critics who he is suggesting are all old pompous donkeys.

Lob Des Hohen Verstandes - Des Knaben Wunderhorn -  Mahler, G.

Recording Taken from a performance at Goldsmiths College with the Goldsmiths Sinfonia conducted by Rebecca Miller. I performed this as winner of the Goldsmiths Concerto Prize. This song tells the story of a young maiden being visited by the ghost of her boyfriend who died at war. After they spend the night together he is enchanted by the trumpets of war, and returns to his grave.

Callum Speed