for two string quartets 

2012

commissioned by the town of Witten and the Wigmore Hall, London

Arditti Quartet and JACK Quartet

2012-S

Okeanos (2023)for bass clarinet, cello and piano.
Performed by Mimitabu:
Heather Roche, bass clarinet
My Hellgren, cello
Jonas Olsson, piano

Live recording from Gamle Raadhus Scene, Oslo, Norway, 8 June, 2023.

Okeanos (2023) for bass clarinet, cello and piano [Mimitabu]

Music is made out of accumulation, and that which follows is tied to that which has come before. Afterness explores remembered, traced, stretched and altered musical fragments, that weave alongside fixed media created out of old sun damaged recordings of songs I wrote as a teenager, discovered on my Dad's obsolete Pocketmemo recorder. The piece explores the idea of memory being enacted on musical material in the form of transformations such as displacement,  interference and erosion. 

Recorded by LSO at LSO St Luke's, 14th January.
Colin Alexander cello
Heather Roche clarinet
Eva Zöllner accordion
Full Piece: https://youtu.be/39tp3G5vhCc?si=GUuLptCwCOGNPzVF

Afterness

Moveable Frames (2025)
excerpt of premiere concert recording
DiMenna Center, New York
May 25th, 2025

Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble
Charlotte Mundy, soprano
Elisa Sutherland, mezzo
Timothy Parsons, countertenor
Tomás Cruz, tenor
Jeffrey Gavett, baritone and director
Steven Hrycelak, bass

Moveable Frames (excerpt) 2025

Kelvin snippet

First performance -- 1 November 2025

Ekmeles + Mivos Quartet. DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY

O Maria (2024-25) for six voices and string quartet

Two movements from a performance of Olivier Messiaen's 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps' (1941) by Apartment House - Anton Lukoszevieze, cello, Mira Benjamin, violin, Heather Roche, clarinet, and Philip Thomas, piano. Apartment House's performance is unusual in avoiding dramatic phrasing and use of vibrato etc. It was released on CD alongside Linda Catlin Smith's composition 'Among the Tarnished Stars' (1998), for the same instrumentation.

2012-S

James Clarke

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