The Dream - Dealer

Kjetil Møster - Clarinet & Sax
Thomas T. Dahl - Guitar
Craig Farr - Drums

live at Avgarde
Dec. 2010
Temptry

Earplugs Not Included

Performance at the BrassWind festival 2023
Composer - Craig Farr
Conductor - Trond Madsen
Nate Wooley - trumpet
Ensemble Obsidian:
Mari Bølgen Halvorsen - violin
Mara Haugen - violin
Ingrid Eriksen - viola
Matias Monsen - cello
René Wiik - alto saxophone
Marita Holme - bass clarinet
Craig Farr - percussion

"Head-Related Transfer Functions" Nate Wooley & Ensemble Obsidian, BrassWind 2023

This song is from our debut album “Yr Royal Jetlag Gospel”. The album is available for purchase at https://gum.co/royaldigital

My Fertile Hour Pt. 1

Soprano Saxophone: Carl Raven
Trumpet: Gary Farr
Violin: Gemma Bass
Cello: Alice Purton
Percussion: Harry Percy

Recorded at Old Trafford Wellbeing Centre
7th and 8th July 2016

Premieres Manchester Central Library 21st September 2016

http://vonnegutcollective.co.uk/

Bone Meal is written in one continuous movement which lasts around six minutes, and was commissioned by the Manchester-based Vonnegut Collective, blueSCI and Seed Studios, to whom it is dedicated.

Titles carry a lot of baggage for me as a composer: often I find them to be a very polarising entity within my compositional process (they either really help or they really don't!).Bone Meal is taken from the opening of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). The protagonist Billy Pilgrim uses the phrase 'bone meal' to describe the amount of human remains he guesses are in the ground around the German city of Dresden. The piece in no way sets out to describe the horrors of Dresden, but more explores the ironic, twisted, satiric overtones found throughout Vonnegut's work: phrases such as Bone Meal utilise (to my mind) Vonnegut's technique of using humour and farce as a means to describe the horrors of war. In this piece, Bone Meal came extremely late in the compositional process, but seemed to 'fit' the brash, angular, often quasi-comical material found within.

The piece overall is in many ways a concertino for soprano saxophone, interrupted only briefly by a plaintive violin melody towards the end. The work as a whole is a collage of musical 'moments' which are linked through a series of repeating intervals and melodic motifs.

I am indebted to Gemma and Gary of the Vonnegut Collective for commissioning the work, and for their enthusiasm with the project.

BONE MEAL, for chamber ensemble | The Vonnegut Collective | 2016

Ly II

The Endless End

Written for and performed by Fredrik B. Olsen in 2007.

Eksamen i komposisjon 2009

Where have you been all these years? *(2007)

James Clapperton Saxophone Concerto. Performed by René Wiik and Sjøforsvarets Musikkorps Bergen.

BrassWind_2012

Doroga Zhizni by James Clapperton. Soloist René Wiik. FMKV Bergen.

Two preludes for solo marimba II. Less dark, but not bright - Luís Bittencourt

Composer and percussionist. Sounds, beats, moods, vibes..