Standard Deviations (2023)

Music is made out of accumulation, and that which follows is tied to that which has come before. Afterness explores remembered, traced, stretched and altered musical fragments, that weave alongside fixed media created out of old sun damaged recordings of songs I wrote as a teenager, discovered on my Dad's obsolete Pocketmemo recorder. The piece explores the idea of memory being enacted on musical material in the form of transformations such as displacement,  interference and erosion. 

Recorded by LSO at LSO St Luke's, 14th January.
Colin Alexander cello
Heather Roche clarinet
Eva Zöllner accordion
Full Piece: https://youtu.be/39tp3G5vhCc?si=GUuLptCwCOGNPzVF

Afterness

live recording 
Oct. 11, 2025
Tenri Institute
New York, NY

Chimeric Form [2023]
I. 77 mögliche Hauptmotive
II. TOR[S]-
III. "little tail"
*. appendix of deleted material

Wet Ink Ensemble
Laura Weiner, horn
Josh Modney, violin
Eric Wubbels, piano

Chimeric Form [2023] (live, Wet Ink Ensemble)

Bubblegum (2001)

This work was originally composed for Piano as an Impromptu.  This arrangement by Suno.com reworked the original score into what you hear in this lively work.  Except after Suno had completed the arrangement I went back into Studio with it and made some significant changes.  I hope you enjoy it.

l'incandescence

Jigsaws of Resistance (2023, mockup)

Two movements from a performance of Olivier Messiaen's 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps' (1941) by Apartment House - Anton Lukoszevieze, cello, Mira Benjamin, violin, Heather Roche, clarinet, and Philip Thomas, piano. Apartment House's performance is unusual in avoiding dramatic phrasing and use of vibrato etc. It was released on CD alongside Linda Catlin Smith's composition 'Among the Tarnished Stars' (1998), for the same instrumentation.

extract from Olivier Messiaen's 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps' by Apartment House

Gaudeamusprijs 1998, Ivor Novello Composer Award, 2019. Published by Donemus

Standard Deviations (2023)

Geoff Hannan