Love this Jake! Who's the performer? You should make more of this: six percussionists?

Soul Shards (String Quartet)

Performed live at an informal concert, February 2022

The Black Path (Diotima Quartet Performance)

For two electric guitars, performed by one guitarist (one guitar tuned a quarter-tone down).

Performed by Alkis Nicolaides at Contemporary Music Lab Cyprus, Nicosia, May 2022.

PAGEVAMPIRE (this house explores loneliness as ephemera)

'She Watches Through the Mirror' is a piano trio written for Trio Mazzolini.

She Watches Through the Mirror - Crystalla - Performed by Trio Mazzolini

The title A Young and Wasted Fox was inspired by the late KISS drummer Eric Carr’s performance the song Young and Wasted. Originally sung by bassist Gene Simmons, Carr’s ability to sing whilst playing such an energetic drum part made him more connected to the song by fans than the original Simmons version. In addition the this, Carr would often do a drum solo immediately before his performance of this song, which were characterised by his heavy and energetic playing style. The ‘fox’ in the title comes from Carr’s onstage character, The Fox.

A Young and Wasted Fox uses a contrast between high energy gestures and moments of silence to explore the concept of ma from Japanese art. The performer should visually prepare before playing each gesture, emphasising the importance of what is not being played alongside what is sounding. Unlike many western art pieces which utilise the idea of ma, A Young and Wasted Fox pushes the performer to play loudly and with fast gestures to show the contrast between sound and silence, as well as imitating Carr’s virtuosic, aggressive playing style.

This piece was premiered by Francois Vallet of Ensemble intercontemporain and is dedicated to my dad, Mark Adams, whose addiction to KISS when I was growing up led to the composition of this piece!

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Percussion - Francois Vallet

A Young And Wasted Fox

The Arc Project
25/2/2023
Millie Mazzone, violin
Jennifer Ralph, clarinet
William King, bass trombone

A Day in the Life of a Lichen

Piece for Solo Clarinet in Bb - written for and performed by the amazing Poppy Beddoe. 
She premiered it on the 16 June 23 at Clifton International Music Festival in Bristol and recorded it at St Pancras Clocktower (with many thanks to Mr. Peter Tompkins for his generosity and patience.

Cryogenesis

Two Hemispheres... moonlanding (for solo violin) | Composed by Ruth Lee | Played by Tilly Langford as part of The Arc Project at York Unitarian Chapel, 19th October 2019. Recorded by Lynette Quek. 
Written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, a solo violinist interacts with extracts from archival recordings. Exploring the voice famously heard by 600 million people, the piece explores the musicality of the human voice in relation to silence and space travel. Melodies and rhythms of familiar and unfamiliar words are passed between the voice and violin over a background of broadcasting static, chaos and silence.

Two Hemispheres...moonlanding (for solo violin and track)

Written/performed/interpreted by Cameron McArthur and Rebecca Burden as part of the Arc Project, 19/10/19.

A huge huge huge thank you to Jake Adams for arranging and managing the project, and to Lynette who did her tech-god thing as per usual

Variations On Silk - Cameron McArthur & Rebecca Burden

Composer from Brighouse, West Yorkshire. PhD student at the University of York 

A Young And Wasted Fox

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