Instruction Manual (20/03/21)

Rothko String Trio
Written by past PhD student, Linda Buckley

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ERROR MESSAGES by Linda Buckley from the album On the Nature of Electricity & Acoustics from Heresy Records

Linda Buckley - Error Messages

'Immersia - 1' by Linda Buckley

This track is taken from 'Immersia', a 3-track EP of ambient electronica by Cork-born composer Linda Buckley. 

'Immersia' is released on Ergodos Records.

For more info, and to purchase the album, click here: http://www.ergodos.ie/shop/immersia/

Immersia – I / Linda Buckley

A track created using my recent Ice Sample Pack: https://soniakillmann.bandcamp.com/album/ice-sample-pack

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This is a concept piece based on the act of guided improvisation for any instrument. Darlene (a wonderful composer, singer and cellist) had a single sheet of A4 with some harmonic guidelines in front of her. We then recorded the piece three times. Each time Darlene played the improvisation, she listened to herself playing the previous version. When all three improvisations were layered, we played these back into the room and recorded them again and again, until the original version became unrecognisable. This then became the backing track to another (final) improvisation of the piece.

I Am Sitting In A Room (with A Cello)

Performed by Zakia Fawcett (viola) and Ollie Hawker (electronics), 19/11/2020, RCS

An instructional text score for any sustaining instrument and live electronics.

I made a Max MSP patch to analyse the first two notes of the piece and send data on the eight most resonant frequencies within them to several electronic chimes, along with very narrow EQ filters which are applied to the live instrument, creating a unique set of resonant 'strings' for it.

The piece begins meditatively, with the resonances reacting quickly to the live input. But with each of Dr Willie Ong's tips, the strings are increasingly delayed to create a textural frame for the player, who is encouraged to become more gestural and to explore the resonances that are swirling around them.

The original video I got the audio from can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbpA46TIsd4

Seven Tips for Anxiety and Nervousness

For violin and fixed media
Based on the Scottish traditional tune of the same name
Performed by Ruairish Geddes (violin), September 2020

'Though hurricanes rise and rise ev'ry wind,
They'll ne'er make a tempest like that in my mind'
	- Allan Ramsey, 1724

'As my melancholy came by degrees, so it wore off by degrees, and as my dark Melancholy bodily distempers abated, so did my spiritual Maladies also, and God convinced me by degrees; that all this was from Satan, his delusions and temptations, working in those dark and black humors, and not from my self, and this God cleared up to me more and more'
	- Hannah Allen, 1683

''Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designes.'
	- Thomas Browne, 1658

'The pain of melancholy could in this sense be interpreted as a sign of the believer's devoutness'
	- Emily Betz, 2020

Lochaber no more was written for the Explorathon Festival in a joint project between RCS and St. Andrews University. It was written in collaboration with Emily Betz, a PhD candidate researching the history of melancholy in Britain, 1580-1780.

The initial tune comes from Farewell to Lochaber, a Scottish traditional tune. We found it in 'The Merry Musician; or, A Cure for the Spleen: A collection of the most diverting songs and pleasant ballads set to the violin and flute, adapted to every taste and humour', published by Walsh, Hare, Bettesworth and Brown, 1716. This tune is in turn thought to be based on Limerick's Lamentation, by 17th century Irish harper Myles O'Reilly, although 'provenance is claimed by both Ireland and Scotland'.

Lochaber no more

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Darlene Zarabozo is a Cuban-American is a composer and musician based in Glasgow.

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