Written for Ensemble Klang in 2008 "music for people who lose people" is in two parts. Both parts are concerned with questioning the difference between exact repetition and music that is always being slightly varied. The first part is unashamed in its harmonic stasis while the second part tries to pretend that the harmony is going somewhere but can't really find a good destination. This work was commissioned with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland.
Live performance at De Gigant (Apeldoorn) on February 16 2008 as part of the YCM Festival organised by Orkest de Ereprijs.

Music for people who lose people - Andrew Hamilton

3rd movement of Walden by Heiner Goebbels, from the live performance in the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, March 2nd 2008

The Ponds (from Walden) - Heiner Goebbels

Live performance at the Korzo Theater, Den Haag, 16th February 2013
E guitar: Pete Harden. 
Samplers: Erik-Jan De With, Joey Marijs, Saskia Lankhoorn, Anton van Houten.


David Fennessy on "Caruso (Gold is the sweat of the sun)" (2012)
 
Throughout the troubled production of his 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, set deep in the Peruvian jungle, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog kept vivid and shocking diaries which he published years later as the book ‘Conquest of the Useless’. I have become somewhat obsessed with these diaries recently and have begun work on a series of pieces drawing on different themes contained therein. This piece, ‘Caruso’, deals with the initial image, or dream which inspired Herzog to make the film in the first place.
 
“A vision had seized hold of me...of a large steamship scaling a hill under its own steam, working its way up a steep slope in the jungle, while above this natural landscape, which shatters the weak and the strong with equal ferocity, soars the voice of Caruso, silencing all the pain and all the voices of the primeval forest and drowning out all birdsong”.
 
In my piece, the guitar is enveloped by a ‘choir’ of Carusos whose influence is by turns obsessive, healing, overpowering and ultimately, silencing.


The work is written with financial support of the Arts Council Ireland.

Ensemble Klang

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