Commissioned by 'Our Dear Green Bothy' as part of the University of Glasgow College of Arts' Cultural Festival for COP26
Recording from the World Premiere, November 9th 2021. Performed by the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir, conducted by Dr. Katy Cooper.
Jeremiah 12 : 10-11
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my portion, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no one lays it to heart.

They Have Made It A Desolation

Winchester College Chapel Choir
with members of SANSARA and The Laudate Choir
LONDON MOZART PLAYERS
Howard Ionascu - conductor

Stanford For Lo, I Raise Up | Winchester College Choir | London Mozart Players | Howard Ionascu

Daphne Oram was a British composer and electronic musician. She is best know for creating the "Oramics" technique which was the use of drawing on 25mm film strips to then create electronic sounds. Daphne created “Rotolock” in 1958 while working for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which sounds like a 50’s radio loop of strings with a slightly flat and out of tune melody which gives the piece this captivating but an unnervingly eerie atmosphere. Just imagine an icecream truck hovering on the edge of a black hole. I then took these ideas and built it into a piece for string orchestra and solo synthesiser. I took influence from her other works, which mostly consisted of experimental bleeps and bloops, but used compositional techniques to achieve these effects. The piece overall is an exploration of sound and texture, and an attempt to pay homage to the original while distorting it into a flamboyant cosmic melt.

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgpZi0ZnA5I


Variations On Rotolock

A choral setting of Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B.Yeats. Performed by the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir on 21st of February 2017.

Innisfree

Performed live at The 13th Note Cafe, Glasgow on the 2nd of December 2018.

Live at The 13th Note

Critters by Fergus Hall. Performed By Glynn Forest of the Glasgow New Music Expedition. Premiered in the CCA in Glasgow as part of Sound Thought Festival 2018.

Critters - Solo Percussion (Excerpt)

Under the Earth I Go

The Masters Choir conducted by Harold Thalange perform Innisfree by Fergus Hall in the chapel of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge on March 13th 2019

Fergus Hall - Innisfree

Quick work I rustled up in Ab, using some sweet sounds I discovered in Kontakt and Spitfire Labs.

Alex Dewfield - Old Times

This is a composition I did in my first year of university, over 3 years ago(!) Minimalist in style, it is a piano trio that circulates in Ab. Enjoy!

Alex Dewfield - Piano Trio "Continuous Harmony"

Premier of my trumpet concerto "one by one all the things that go by", With Victor Koch on the solo trumpet and dulcet tones, conducted by Julien Salemkour with the DKDM symphony orchestra. This piece was written for DKDM's 152nd anniversary and all of the work was done over the Covid 19 lockdown with a lot of help from Victor. This new and vastly improved mix was done by Joseph Gallacher.

They Have Made It A Desolation

Harold JJ Thalange

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