for solo oboe

catherine lamb -- descensus trio (2020). i recorded each part by myself over the course of the pandemic.

catherine lamb -- decensus trio

Moss Gardens - No.1 - Harp, Tenor Recorder (2022)

Magammahm is an orchestral composition dedicated to and premiered by Orkiestra Muzyki Nowej, conducted by Maciej Koczur at Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Hall in Katowice, Poland, 19/12/2021.

Project co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland within the programme 
„Collections” – the priority „Composition Commissions” implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance.

Magammahm for chamber orchestra [2021]

Performed by Huw Morgan at St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol.

'Malum Opus' (translation: apple/disaster work) was written with the thought of a decaying apple in mind and my perceptions of decay, whether it be the withering wrinkles and crevices as the item falls apart, or the beautiful colours that appear in sprouting mould. The piece oscillates between consonance and microtonal dissonance, shifting the listener’s perceptions of the chords as they transition within these oscillations, gradually moving closer towards a microtonal decay and then eventual resolution as the apple becomes part of the earth.

Malum Opus, Performed by Huw Morgan, 14/05/2022, Bristol.

"This work is comprised of single tones in flexible time brackets for four saxophones or multiples thereof. The pitches do not sound as written. The intonation should be unique to each player, thus a unison should be “a unison.of differences.” Sounds may be long or short. When they have duration, the loudness should be soft. Very short sounds are free as to loudness, even sfz if wished or ppp.”

Different approach where I dramatically 'mistuned' the saxophones in advance.

John Cage Four5 (02.23)

duo for percussion and saxophone - Scapegoat - Noam Bierstone and Joshua Hyde. 2016

Plastic Disorder

Aposiopesis refers to the use of silence or a pause, leaving something left unsaid. This work is littered with short statements broken by silences of varying lengths, each phrase is left to be completed and uncompleted alike by the listener. Aposiopesis occupies a harmonic world that meanders, searches, and at times even wanders off; the pitches themselves are often lost within the sound of air.

Performed and recorded by BRON Quartet

Aposiopesis

Performed by Ensemble intercontemporain
Conducted by Matthias Pintscher
Recorded live on June 14th 2019 at Cité de la Musique, Paris

Le lieu et la formule (2019) for large ensemble

solo violoncello work for Séverine Ballon, recording 2013

a tabulation / an unmarking [2013]

The Birds And Old Pine (Improvisation with Anatolian zurna, hand drum and vocal)

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Aposiopesis

Jakob Bragg

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