for two guitars.

performed by Omri Kochavi and Joanna Ward
recorded live at Cafe Oto, 3rd July 2023
mixed by Joanna Ward

nearness, distance

This piece mainly consists of field recordings I've captured spontaneously in moments and spaces. I find interacting with my sonic environment interesting mainly due to the vastness I experience within those moments and spaces. Here, I've revisited these spaces and made them into one.

Adjustments

two pianos
written for Yihan Chen and Maxime Trechsel
fp — Yihan Chen/Maxime Trechsel, Milton Court Concert Hall (UK), 29-09-2023

‘lee shore’ is a piece for two pianos created in collaboration with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Keyboard Department. I worked with the excellent pianists Yihan Chen and Maxime Trechsel.

It was premiered alongside a performance of Meredith Monk’s ‘Ellis Island’ for two pianos with accompanying film. I selected a few harmonies from ‘Ellis Island’ — freeze frames — and arranged them freely. Whispers of Antonello de Caserta's ‘Amour m'a le cuer mis en tel martire’ also made their way in.

I was thinking about small, gentle gestures, lines, and listening through permeable textures.

If you would like to see the full video of ‘Ellis Island’ with ‘lee shore’ played attacca, please get in touch.

lee shore (2023)

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𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘮𝘢𝘴

※ ·*Christmas compilation from angels and xmas digimons  ˖*°❆· ※ ˖°࿐

Mastering - Oats
Artwork - Skip 

Shlove to everyone! 
Grr <3

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Pentu - I Ruined The Surprise (Christmas  95)

Another improvisation, this time experimenting with feedback from a  DPA clip on microphone and bass amp. Thanks to James Creed for the help (featured on here vocally)

Bass Amp Sketches

Laurence Crane - Raimondas Rumsas.wav

based on 3 multiphonics + their fragility + humanlike qualities

perfect music

Life on wide mode.

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Composed in 2020.
Commissioned by 840 Series, for their 5th anniversary concert, 
with funds provided by Arts Council England, Richard Thomas Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation and RVW Trust.
Performed by Juliet Fraser (soprano), Colin Alexander (cello), Stephanie Tress (cello) and Peteris Sokolovskis (cello).
Live recording of 1st performance, at Cafe Oto, London on 
31 January 2020.

European Towns

Mandhira de Saram: violin 
Patrick Dawkins: violin 
Richard Jones: viola 
Valerie Welbanks: cello

Workshop recording as part of Ligeti Quartet's "Workout" series of 100 workshops: ligetiquartet.com/workout

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Seven Lines for the Ligeti Quartet is a simple piece about coming and going, about the meeting of the many forces at play in apparent stillness, and about playing together. Three chords - an alternating pair and a bookend - are repeated and run through simple incremental processes as the piece unfolds. It is composed with and structured by a text:

strange to call it a sea
every river in the same boat
forgotten and remembered in the firth
the Colorado and the Yaqui share a gulf
down at the south tip of California
high tide cradled by a kind moon
on the first night of spring

Seven Lines for the Ligeti Quartet (2020)

James M. Creed

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