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 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

Recently I had a minor crisis where I realised some of the bad habits I was falling into with my compositional practice, particularly being overly focused on concept over musical content and creating an illusion of freedom where none existed. This piece is the start of my ‘therapy’ for these issues. Focusing on simplicity and clarity, 'Learning to Speak Again' uses a 12 tone balungan line with clear sèlèh points to divide and structure the piece. In an attempt to better practice controlling the gestures I am using in my work, I also limited the number of extended techniques I would use, forcing myself to make sure that what I am actually writing on the page is interesting musically.

This is a shorter version of what will eventually be a longer, more controlled and progressive version of this piece.

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Performed by Ensemble Intercontemporian

Learning To Speak Again

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 

Learning To Speak Again

Jake Adams

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