Field recordings were taken in Sardegna, April 2014.
Music sample from Colder.

Cortile

successful day playing around with delays + finding a balance with the flexibility/fragility of these dyads !

interlude i

Performed by EXAUDI at Exposure 2023, Milton Court. 

Premiered at and commissioned by the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2022.

score: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EzOcKKEIpiuy6A7KJAcvdnwgzMBzUeV9/view

LIVING ON ICE-CREAM AND CHOCOLATE KISSES

Digital smoke - Malary

A blank page with notes explores the Japanese concept of ma, where the space between objects is as significant as the objects themselves. The performer has been presented with a score that shows gestures separated by blank space between them. This space is used to signify the relative space between these gestures, allowing the performer to move between these moments of movement guided by how long they feel each space is in the moment. These moments of pause are also guided by the performance space, with the natural sounds of the environment helping the performer decide when to move out of silence.

Most of these moments of movement within the piece involve allowing the sound of the guitar to decay into silence, taking advantage of the natural shape of the guitar’s sound and letting the listener feel the music blending into the environment that the performance takes part in.

This piece was composed for and is dedicated to Marisa Sardo.

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Classical Guitar - Marisa Sardo
Recording and mixing - James Brown

A blank page with notes

Olive

The sound of wings fluttering in chilled air. For violin ensemble and electronics (5 violins in this recording). 

Wings (Live)

try me

A song cycle setting three poems by August Stramm: 'Vernichtung', 'Frage', and 'Schrei'.

Despite being very difficult to translate, I immediately found August Stramm’s poems extremely evocative, emotive, and powerful. Most importantly, their abstract style and often frantic pace cried out to be set to music.

In this song cycle, I have tried to capture the vulnerability of a man who was not a natural soldier, and who despaired of war; who was horrified by what he saw, and was moved to capture his thoughts in poetry.

Workshopped and performed by the Helsinki Chamber Choir, as part of the Tenso Young Composers Workshop in Mechelen, May 2017
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0'00 – Vernichtung
3'18 – Frage
7'35 – Schrei
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August Stramm

August Stramm (1874-1915) was a German poet and playwright who is considered one of the first of the expressionists. He served in the German Army and was killed in action during World War I.

Vernichtung-Frage-Schrei

Dafina Zeqiri - Dream, Playing by Peter Sheppard Skaerved

A recording I made in a few spare hours on Monday 4th November 2019. It's by no means perfect, but I don't believe there are any other recordings of this piece around, so someone may find it useful.
  
*Not having a string quartet to hand the string parts are realised as generated tones.

Alvin Lucier - Serenade for Oboe and Strings* (1995)

Composer, oboist and visual artist based in York, UK.

Contemporary classical and electronic music.

https://www.instagram.com/des_r_clarke/

Alvin Lucier - Serenade for Oboe and Strings* (1995)

Desmond Clarke