Inner

A sound picture of the inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871), whose dreams of building a calculating engine led towards the development of the modern day computer. Few of his contemporaries saw the importance of his ideas or were able to support his vision and he lived a life of conflict and exasperation with those who should have known better. He made two attempts to create the machine of his dreams (the Difference Engine) but died with his life's work incomplete and largely ignored. The music clicks away, calculates, breaks down, surges forward and dies away, all in an attempt to mirror the external and internal world of this prophetic but  misunderstood visionary. 

Difference Engine No 1

An evocation of this exotic location to go with some title film shots for a TV series.

Galapagos Island Music

Location recordings from; John Wesley Garden near St Paul's; the Crypt of St. Mary le Bow and up in the church itself; a protest over sacked cleaners; the bell for midday mass and the clock ticks in Hawksmoor's St. Mary's, Woolworth. 

London

Orbit is the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star or planet. The eccentricity of the path and speed of the moving objects can vary. In this respect sound is treated in this piece as a moving object. Electronic and piano parts can be considered as two celestial objects moving either in regular trajectories or deviating from circularity.

composed by Dimitris Maronidis
Performed by Gundega Smite (piano)

July 2014

dedicated to Gundega Smite

Thessaloniki - Riga |2014|
www.maronidis.net

Orbits (for piano and tape)

Middlebury College Orchestra performs Mvt. III of Incidental Music for Babbage's Dream (2005) by Jonathan Stuart-Moore.

Incidental Music for Babbage's Dream, Mvt. III (2005)

Philip Tagney's winning remix from the Inspired By Martinu remix competition: "I particularly like Martinu’s superb orchestral music: the short & catchy cell-like melodic motifs which seem to have roots in Czech folk music, the rhythmic drive, and the masterly orchestration, so clear and colourful.   I wanted to draw attention to the wealth of invention in this movement from the 4th symphony, by focussing on a just a few of the many lovely moments, using repetition and elaboration, and allowing them to go into slightly fantastical areas that the orchestra could hardly play in reality. It seems absurd temerity to remix such a masterwork, but I hope that my remix expresses my pleasure in Martinu’s music, which might encourage people to seek out more of Martinu’s unique voice."
http://www.inspiredbymartinu.co.uk/remix/

Martinu Remixed by Philip Tagney

51º12'N/0º55'W-130914 - Aaron Parker
2015

Tom McKinney - electric guitar

Recorded live at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation 17/06/2015.


51º12'N/0º55'W-130914 - Aaron Parker

Taken from the album 'Wakes On Cerulean' released as LP and Download

Difference Engine No 1

Howard Cheesman

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