Name: I Never Learnt to Share by Chris Fisher-Lochhead in Kong Must Like
Duration: 5 min 57 s
Description: An arrangement of James Blake's "I Never Learnt to Share" performed by the Spektral Quartet.

Kong Must Like

Parallax (2013)

Commissioned by the Aeolus String Quartet
Composed by Steven Snowden

From the Aeolus Quartet's 2012 album *Many-Sided Music*
Digital release date: March 06, 2012


Program Notes:
Appalachian Polaroids was initially inspired by the controversial portrait photography of Shelby Lee Adams (b. 1950). Though sometimes criticized for perpetuating the hillbilly stereotype of rural Appalachia, I feel that his photographs often illuminate the quiet resilience of these remote mountain communities. As a native of the Ozark Mountain countryside, I have always felt a strong connection with my neighbors to the East. In Appalachian Polaroids, I chose to create my own musical portrait of the unique mix of hardship and joy that comes with living an isolated rural life. 

This piece begins with a 1976 field recording of Sheila Kay Adams (no relation to Shelby Lee) singing the popular folk song Black is the Color in Asheville, North Carolina. The quartet quietly enters as an integrated component of the recording, playing with the wood of their bows to create a slightly noisy effect, similar to the tape hiss present in the old equipment used to record Sheila's stunning voice. Their sound gradually becomes more brilliant until the group finally emerges with crowing figures reminiscent of Appalachian fiddle playing. However, they also carry with them remnants of Sheila's own unique singing style. These attributes, (which include sliding/scooping to and from certain pitches and a subtle yodeling effect at the ends of phrases) expand as the piece progresses and eventually exert their influence on large-scale aspects of melody, rhythm and even form.


Appalachian Polaroids

Angle Of Repose

like a halo
for prepared violin, soprano, alto sax, horn, harp & piano with amplification & electronics
(2014, rev 2015) 
commissioned by Ensemble Dal Niente
performed by Wet Ink


like a halo

Nox is scored for an open instrumentation comprised of voices, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings. The performers are organized into four groups that surround the audience. The result is an immersive and highly visceral sonic experience that is played in partial darkness.

The title of the piece is drawn from Anne Carson's Nox, an elegiac scrapbook filled with bits of letters, photos, personal reflections, and a moving translation of poem No. 101 by Catullus. Through the linear and spatial arrangement of these artifacts, Carson forges an intense atmosphere that connects the ancient and the modern, intimacy and distance, present experience and memory. These connected oppositions emerge within the music despite the fact that the piece itself is not expressly programmatic. 

Nox was commissioned by the Ear Taxi Festival and is dedicated to Augusta Read Thomas.

WORLDEATER [2016]
for two trombonists
commissioned by RAGE Thormbones (Weston Olencki & Matt Barbier)

Recorded at the HUSEAC Studios at Harvard University
Performed by Weston Olencki & Matt Barbier
Recorded by Timothy McCormack
Mixed/mastered by Weston Olencki
Assistance given by Seth Torres

More info here: www.timothy-mccormack.com/worldeater

http://www.westonolencki.com/
https://soundcloud.com/wolencki
http://www.mattbarbier.com/
https://soundcloud.com/mattbarbier-1

WORLDEATER [2016]

Recorded live with Grant Wallace Band at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY, 11 April 2017 -- piano improvisation linking our new tune "After Barbarian Days" with oldfave "Oranjestraat."

Barbarian To Oranje

I Come Near You

from <i>Madrigals (Book One)</i> (2008, unreleased)

lyrics by <a href="http://www.hjertmann.com">Ben Hjertmann</a> (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/kongmustdead">Ben Hjertmann</a>)
music by <a href="http://www.lukegullickson.com">Luke Gullickson</a>

love is lived in the lives of lovers

"We Travel the Spaceways"
from The Magnificent Pretty Boy
by the Grant Wallace Band

Performed at Chatter, Albuquerque (January 2018)
Ben Hjertmann, voice/percussion
Chris Fisher-Lochhead, viola/voice
Luke Gullickson, piano/voice
Tychiko Cox, voice
Trumpet - Mark Hyams
Clarinet - Mike Gruetzner
Percussion - Jeff Cornelius

We Travel The Spaceways (Homage to Chick Corea)

Alex Temple, "Liebelsied" (2011)

Jenna Lyle, voice
Alex Temple, live electronics
Chicago Composers Orchestra (Matthew Kasper, cond.)
live at Ganz Hall, Chicago, IL, 9.22.12

More info:
https://www.alextemplemusic.com/liebeslied

Liebeslied (2011)

An arrangement of James Blake's "I Never Learnt to Share" performed by the Spektral Quartet.

I Never Learnt to Share

Chris Fisher-Lochhead

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