Drawing, performed live by Tom Lee in Nonclassical's Pioneers of Percussion festival. The Macbeth, Hoxton, London, 6 Nov 14.

About the piece: 
"A point of energy is drawn across the instrument. It swings between different surfaces, waxes and wanes, gathering and bursting energy."

View the score: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23066619/Scores/Ed_Scolding-Drawing.pdf

Photo © Dimitri Djuric http://decca.tumblr.com/

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Drawing

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Live performance by the Laefer Saxophone Quartet at The Forge, London, 21 April 2015



Dapple (Live performance by the Laefer Quartet)

From the original motion picture soundtrack to MILE END www.mileendmovie.com 

Performed by Minn Majoe (violin) and Bethan Scolding (piano)

iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/mile-end-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/id1219603623
Bandcamp https://ffinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mile-end-original-motion-picture-soundtrack
Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mile-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B06XR832J7
Website http://www.edscolding.co.uk/news/mile-end-soundtrack-release


"The score, by Ed Scolding, moves from harmony to discord, adding considerably to the tension and sense of foreboding. Elsewhere, percussive elements draw us in to Paul’s obsession and anxiety" 
Quadrapheme 

"The music by Ed Scolding is absolutely brilliant…" 
Crispy Sharp

Music composed & produced by Ed Scolding 
Featuring Bethan Scolding (piano) and Minn Majoe (violin) 
Recorded at Master Chord Studio, London 
Mixed by Roderick Buchanan-Dunlop 
Art design by Vladan Srdic, Studio360.si

Running

More about the piece: http://www.edscolding.co.uk/news/2017/1/land-cycle-broadcast-bbc-radio-3


PART 1: WINTER ENDING
(Edward Thomas - Thaw)

Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass. 



PART 2: SPRING BURSTING
(Shaun Gardiner - Invocation)

The garden has been sown with dragon’s teeth; 
Summer brazens through the mulch of spring,
Itself the chewed stuff of autumn. Beneath,
The flowers draw their blades. Trees cast leaves, fling 
Upon the lower world their cuckoospell
Of shadow, shuddering the pollen; warm snow.
Thousand-coated, million-mated world, swell - 
For the year’s yolk is in its overflow
And over-golden, too big for any shell.




PART 3: SUMMER HEAT 
(Adapted from Li Po - In the Mountains on a Summer Day)

Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open heart sitting in a green wood.
I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
A wind from the pine-trees trickles on my bare head.




-- 
Created in collaboration with La Nova Singers. Commissioned by Making Music as part of Adopt a Composer, in partnership with Sound and Music and PRS Foundation. 
The piece is dedicated to La Nova Singers.
Recorded by BBC Radio 3.

Land Cycle - performed live by La Nova Singers

From the award-winning soundtrack to Graham Higgin's psychological thriller MILE END.

iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/mile-end-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/id1219603623
Bandcamp https://ffinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mile-end-original-motion-picture-soundtrack
Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mile-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B06XR832J7
Website http://www.edscolding.co.uk/news/mile-end-soundtrack-release

Mile End

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Ed Scolding is a versatile composer and teacher whose prize-winning music has been broadcast, performed and screened across the UK, and described as 'subtle and polished' (Bachtrack), 'succinct, witty and apt' (Norwich Evening News) and 'touching... raw, authentic' (Nefarious Magazine).

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