Venetian Underworld (for electric String Quartet)
performed by the Allegri String Quartet

Murky and Dramatic chamber work, based around the events of the venetian riots in 1848 that left the city with seven dead, the piece itself ending with a pavane for these seven unknowns.

Venetian Underworld

A percussive solo piano work exploring the tonal and harmonic qualities of the instrument through number theory and prime factors. It subverts and exploits the idea of the golden section within music with a linked series of number based anti-variations.

Clockwise antivariations

Down on the ground

String Quintet (performed by the Wells Quintet)
A beautiful and serene piece for four strings and electronically manipulated piano - the title is taken from the poem by Yeats and the photo courtesy of Jonathan Slade.

Of light and the night and the half light (on the shore)

A work for solo violin and electronics - based around the phasing in and out of a pre-recorded distorted violin line. The drums can be added afterworks by a live percussion player.

Radio waves and solar tides

Soundscape and vocal element to "The Fragile Forest'. The text is written by pupils of Eastbury Farm School as reactions to the soundscape.

Snake poetry

Extract of a work for String Orchestra - used to explore intermediate players to advanced techniques in a straightforward but exciting way.

George Wells Composer