Soul Shards (String Quartet)

'Remembering Bells' was composed following a series of workshops from the International School of Music Finland exploring traditional Arabic music. The piece applies ideas from the Arabic maqam system, in particular building modes from small scalic fragments and jins modulation techniques. The piece is entirely aleatoric, with a focus on the interactions between the performers, who take cues from each other and judge when it is best to move through the material. In this piece I also wanted to explore personal feelings of anxiety, both recent and historical. The cyclic nature of anxious thinking is important on a micro and marco level, with lines and gestures often returning to their starting point and the guitar returning to its original gesture at the end of the piece.

This piece was composed for and is dedicated to the Aulus Duo.

"Remembering Bells" for flute and classical guitar (performed by the Aulus Duo)

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

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 

"Remembering Bells" for flute and classical guitar (performed by the Aulus Duo)

Jake Adams

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