Spitfire Chamber Strings

for Saxophone Quartet. Premiered at Royaumont Abbey, France, by the Xasax Quartet. September 2012

I. Panorama
II. Hero & Leander
III. Autumn
IV. Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves

Each movement takes a painting by American artist Cy Twombly (1928-2011) as its focus. The way in which words can be used in art and music is central to the piece: word as sound, word as meaning, word as shape.

Four Illuminations (2012) for Saxophone Quartet

"Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine" - People live in each other's shadows (English equivalent - "No man is an island"). Dedicated to Rita Mannion.

This piece was originally inspired by and premiered in Grafton Architects' installation at the Royal Academy of Arts 'Sensing Spaces' exhibition in March 2014. Oliver Wainwright describes their work in the Guardian newspaper: "Great grey slabs plunge down from the ceiling, forming an interlocking play of cubic volumes, filtering fine shafts of light down across their faces into the ethereal gloom. Like entering some Blade Runner cathedral, the composition makes the room appear to soar upwards, way beyond its actual height." 

The full, homogenous timbre of saxophone ensembles possesses an almost magical, omnipresent quality. It is in this omnipresence that I see the saxophone ensemble as the perfect spatial medium for the massive suspended shapes of Grafton's installation. Their work appears to infringe on the space in such a complete way that it becomes the totality of a new spatial medium, not only influencing how light and shadow are formed throughout the space but how the shapes themselves are perceived in their own self-inflicted perspective. The rich and electric sound of the saxophone ensemble reflects these enormous blocks, and the audience’s position and movements in the room control the evolving harmony and opacity of sound.

(Recorded at RCM Studios in February 2014 - Performed by Naomi Sullivan, Amy Green, Michaela Stapleton, Philip Attard, ‎Neil McGovern, Rachel Parry-Ridout.)

Scáth (Performed at Royal Academy, London by Sygyzy and guests)

Magiya (2013) [orchestra].  Opening excerpt

saddened by the murder on Alexei Navalny made this short piece. Hopefully his wife can carry on and end the dictatorship - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/19/yulia-navalnaya-vows-to-continue-late-husband-alexei-navalny-work

Navalny

Text: Veckospråk nr. 12 av Rudolf Steiner
Musik: Sofie Skogh

Gitarr och sång: Sofie Skogh

Producerad av Sofie Skogh

Naturens skönhetsglans

Text: Veckospråk nr 17 av Rudolf Steiner
Musik: Sofie Skogh

Gitarr och sång: Sofie Skogh
Inspelad och producerad av Sofie Skogh 2024

Världsordet talar

Text: Veckospråk nr. 19 av Rudolf Steiner
Musik: Sofie Skogh

Gitarr och sång: Sofie Skogh
Inspelad och producerad av Sofie Skogh 2025

I mitt minne

Pushing Air (for RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gavin Maloney)

Here is a track that I wrote using the newly released and beautiful Spitfire Chamber Strings and Labs Soft Piano. 

My Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/cleffernotes

The Forgotten Past - Spitfire Chamber Strings

Original Composers: Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yokota, Takeshi Hama, Koji Kondo - Nintendo EAD

Orchestral Arrangement By: ClefferNotes

Here is an much requested orchestration at some of the music featured in Zelda: Skyward Sword. This is an orchestration the Skyloft theme. I decided to give the remix a happy vibrant flare to it with some lush sounding sweeping string movements. Hope you like it! 

Libraries + Software Used:

Logic Pro X
Spitfire: Chamber Strings,  Albion 1, Flute Consort, Low Reeds, Percussion, Harp.

CineSamples: Piano in Blue.

Zelda: Skyward Sword - Skyloft Theme: Orchestrated Cover

Reflection

Baba Yaga - Andy Blaney

Debussy's String Quartet in G minor, 2nd mvmt.

Made entirely with Spitfire Chamber Strings.  

No effects or plugins.  Mostly pizzicato patches, except viola which is spiccato and "generic short" (UACC values 42 and 40).

Debussy - String Quartet In Gm, Op 10 - Spitfire Chamber Strings

Walkings

Walk Ahead

Walk Ahead (Spitfire Chamber Strings)

Christina Meißner und Poul Skjølstrup Larsen, Sonnenorgel Peterskirche Görlitz

Lisa Streich SERAPH Violoncello und Orgel

Lisa Streich GRATA

Music Teacher - plays organ, cello, clarinet

Walk Ahead (Spitfire Chamber Strings)

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