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

This short concert opener was written especially for the Guildhall Chamber orchestra and Joshua Weilerstein, to open the anniversary concert marking 10 years of Milton Court Concert Hall on the 25th October 2023. This is the recording of the premiere.

Stannum, the Latin word for tin, is the customary 10th anniversary gift. Tin is an alloy, traditionally combined from silver and lead. Accordingly, the piece is something of a mixture of ideas and materials inspired by different types of celebratory music - some brash, some tender and some resolute.

Stannum

Audio Captured using 3dio Free Space Binaural Microphone. Please listen through headphones.

Audio from the TL Percussion Ensemble Premiere of "Mixed Messages" on the 16th March 2017. 

Conductor: Mick Doran. Performers: Craig Lutton, George Pertwee, Rhys Davies, Rory Clark, Tom Daley, Tom Leech, Malgorzata Kepa, Matt Arnold, Henry Fynn and Connor Chambers.

Mixed Messages II - TL Percussion Ensemble

Recording from the Premiere at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the 12th June 2012 - performed by the LPO and Foyle's Future Firsts as the culmination of the LPO Leverhulme Young Composers Scheme

As Echoes - Extract One - London Philharmonic Orchestra and Foyle's Future Firsts

As Echoes - Extract Two - London Philharmonic Orchestra and Foyle's Future Firsts

As Echoes - Extract Three - London Philharmonic Orchestra and Foyle's Future Firsts

Inside Out. Outside in. Concert Performance of Suite P - 3 Miniatures for Solo Piano

Pianist: Alice Pinto

Suite P - Alice Pinto

Written by Jethro Linley and Hollie Harding

Performed by Castalian String Quartet

Counterpose - Castalian String Quartet

Extension (for solo cello), performed by Amy Jolly

London Ear Festival Commission

Performed by Sigfried Kutterer and Domenico Melchiorre (DeciBells)



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Hollie is a composer, researcher and curator of contemporary music events in the UK and overseas.

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