I open and close (1988) for amplified string quartet

recorded by David Lynch specially for Gary Lucas' 
"Beefheart Night at the Knit" 
Captain Beefheart Tribute
at the Knitting Factory NYC
April 9th 2008
special thanks to Dusty Wright

painting: "One Bent One Straight" 
by Don Van Vliet 
oil on canvas

"Pena"--composition by Don Van Vliet read by David Lynch

The second complete performance of "world-line", performed by ELISION: Daryl Buckley (electric lap steel guitar), Tristram Williams (piccolo trumpet & flugelhorn) and Peter Neville (percussion), with Lawrence Harvey, Jim Atkins and Jeffrey Hannam on sound projection

world-line (2014) Melbourne 30 April 2015

Kelvin snippet

Live- 2017-V-11. Ecuries de Baroja, Anglet.

Chord Sequence With Interruptions For Unamplified Electric Guitar Dominic Lash 2013

Christian Wolff: microexercises - recorded in Cambridge with the composer, 2010

Christian Wolff- microexercises

She's following me - 
She does so soundlessly. 
As the wind blows among the leaves,
She waits for sleep.

As my eyes grow heavy,
Her hand upon my face - 
To find the darkest place,
Take the mask from me. 

Now she begins to whisper,
Her voice a harmony
"You are hollow, I am whole now,
I am who you used to be."

Can't you see? You are dancing with a ghost of me.
For her, the words all flow so easily.

She'll never let me slumber - 
Her eyes still burn too bright.
We tread the fields at night,
And her sights are set on me. 

I am ever heavy,
She is ever light. 
Though I run, though I run, 
I'm not free of her tonight.

Can't you see? I am haunted by a ghost of me.
For her, the words all flow so easily - they don't for me.

A Ghost of Me

'Sanjo' for double bass(es), Dominic Lash, double bass.   This piece was composed in dialogue with the performer.  In this case, the first stage was a 'number score' which was ascribed musical events, according to certain rules, by the performer and functioned as a pre-recorded 'ground'.  This realisation was sent back to me, and I responded by making a more fuller notated score in response.  This was then sent back to the bassist who played the new score with , and against, the earlier recorded ground.  Essentially it is akin to accompaniment and solo (each being doubled).
It also relates to the traditional Korean musical form of Sanjo (meaning 'scattered melodies') though more as an oblique homage rather than any 'cultural appropriation', as the piece has its own processes of formation. However it has some concrete links with the sense of 'call and response', solo and accompaniment, and (sometimes) the vocal interjection of players.  The present piece is structured around a doubling of space, whereby the solo performer becomes multiple.  This is a 5' extract of the full track to be released on the Aural Terrains label June 2022.

Kelvin snippet

domlash