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

In 2021, the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ finalists consisted of Rose Aisling-Ellis (a deaf woman), John Whaite (an openly gay man) and AJ Odudu (a working class, black woman). Acknowledging the significance of one of the UK’s biggest television events of the year featuring such a diverse group, Whaite posted a photo himself and his dance partner Johannes Radebe in their show dance, surrounded by confett􀄴i, stating that ‘What started life as an entertainment show has this year provided solace for so many outcasts.’. This image and statement inspired me to compose a new work that explored
and celebrated the beauty of difference and diversity in our world.

Confett􀄴i for the Outcasts is a synthesis of ideas from my own training
as a western classical music and Javanese gamelan player with instruments and elements from the Japanese gagaku tradition. Each of the instruments in the ensemble have a unique method of sound production, leading to distinct voices and timbral colours in the piece. The musical material of the piece is based around four small motifs that each of the instruments explore through melodic and/or harmonic expressions. Elaboration on the melodic materials
found in the ryūteki, hichiriki and cello is key to these expressions, helping to develop the motifs organically through each performer’s unique voice. Microtonal inflections around particular pitch classes are used to expand the harmonic language of the music. Of particular interest to me whilst composing this piece was the microtonal embellishments used between the ryūteki and hichiriki in gagaku music, where the hichiriki will slide to its pitch an octave lower than the stable ryūteki note, resulting in the first harmonic of the hichiriki beating against the fundamental of the ryūteki. This effect is key to Confe􀄴i for the Outccasts, being seen frequently between the ryūteki, hichiriki and cello.

This piece was composed for Thomas Piercy, Lish Lindsey, Masayo
Ishiguri, Daniel Hass and Tengku Irfan and was premiered in New York on October 10th 2022.

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Lish Lindsey - ryūteki
Thomas Piercy - hichirkiki
Daniel Hass - cello
Masayo Ishiguri - koto
Tangku Irfan - piano

Performed as part of the Random Access Music concert at Martha Graham Studio One on Sunday 16th October 2022

Confetti For The Outcasts

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 

Confetti For The Outcasts

Jake Adams

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