Recitative based on Hunting Stories from Baron Münchausen opera.
Premiered by Isabel Soccoja (mezzo soprano) & ensemble Offrandes on July 11-12-13 at La Fonderie, Le Mans (fr).
Martin Moulin, direction - Stéphane Charlot, tenor saxophone - Olivier Mingam, violin - Samuel Boré, organ - Jean-Christophe Garnier, drums.
The piece is dedicated to Jacopo Baboni Schilingi.

WE'RE (IN) THE TEXT (2017) - for mezzo soprano & ensemble

Performed by Talea Ensemble; Jeffrey Means, conductor, DiMenna Center, New York, May 2017

the new normal for fixed media and ensemble

Music for Miniature Landscapes, for guitar quartet, was written in 2014 for the highSCORE festival in Pavia, Italy.

The piece uses statistically generated fields, superimposed onto simple algorithmic processes and the occasional 'compositional' intervention to create complex but intuitable textures and progressions - at least that is the intention!

The work is characterised by long parametric transformations that cause the music to move between states: dense texture to monody, obvious to incoherent and so on. However, these states differ only in terms of the magnitude of the variables used in their generation and do not exhibit any boundaries or transitions: any state changes, then, are phenomena which are imposed ‘from the outside’ by the listener, as are the details of exactly what they are and when they occur.

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Music For Miniature Landscapes

A small excerpt from the currently unfinished second movement of my string quartet Territory] Boundary / \ Border [Divide 

Performed by Quatour Diotima

Territory] Boundary / \ Border [Divide Mov.II - Excerpt

a snippet of a ritual hidden from the audience: slightly altered, very affected, flame grilled

Vinapa is one of the 84 Tantric Mahasiddhi. These figures all stand as testament of the multitude of ways one can become enlightened. I was drawn to Vinapa specifically because he is arguably the only figure to gain enlightenment through music. The quartet draws upon his approach to enlightenment and gives rise to the opportunity for the listener to try and follow the same path. 

Premiered by JVLMA Ensemble: Peteris Trasuns (viola), Viktors Stankevics (double bass), Guntis Kuzma (clarinet), Arvydas Kazlauskas (saxophone)

Premiered as part of Crossroads Festival 2017 in the Barockmuseum, Salzburg

Vinapa (2017)

Written in June - September 2017
Performed by Peter Sheppard Skærved at St. Vedast Foster Lane, London - 15.02.2018 

The piece revolves around a few cantabile melodic fragments, manifesting in two or even three voices at once, gradually intensifying and transforming into a soaring singing line at the very top register of the violin, until descending again. Soi in Finnish, means ‘rings’, ‘sounds’, ‘echoes’.

The piece was written for Peter Sheppard Skærved.
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Recording courtesy of Colin Still (Optic Nerve Productions)
Photo by ©Malene Sheppard Skærved

Soi - for solo violin (2017)

Subsurface

LIVE @ VISUAL BULK  Dani Kirby/Mat Ward/Matt Warren

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https://isaacschankler.bandcamp.com/track/the-moonlight-sonata-but-the-bass-is-a-bar-late-and-the-melody-is-a-bar-early

sheet music:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/22sq0p19lundped/moonlate12102018.pdf?dl=0

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The Moonlight Sonata but the bass is a bar late and the melody is a bar early

For 6 Electric Guitars, 6 Acoustic Guitars and 2 Acoustic Bass Guitars

Awarded 1st prize for the “Pablo Wendel – Performance Electrics” International Composition Competition in 2013.

Conducted by Helmut Oesterreich and performed by Open Source Guitars. Recorded live in Musichochschule Trossingen, Germany in April 2013.

Marshes - Performed by Helmut Oesterriech and OSG

Composer currently studying at the University of York.

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Territory] Boundary / \ Border [Divide Mov.II - Excerpt

Catherine Robson