Performed by University of Huddersfield Symphony Orchestra / Barrie Webb, St. Paul's Hall, Huddersfield.

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Performed at Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, August 1998.

Six pieces

Live performance by incidental music (Julia Eckhardt, Normisa Pereira da Silva, Stefan Thut) at Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, 7 July 2009.

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AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED OBJECTS BEING TURNED ON AND OFF

things whole and not whole

Jürg Frey (clarinet); Angharad Davies (violin); Anton Lukoszevieze (cello)

instruments with recordings (2012) comprises a series of environmental recordings paired with sustained pitches played by instruments which reinforce a pitch component found in each recording. The recordings are mostly of electro-mechanical sources made in isolation or contextualised by their immediate environment.

Instruments with recordings

interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles was commissioned by the Philharmonie Luxembourg for the Arditti Quartet and first performed by them at Rainy Days, Luxembourg, on 1 December 2013.

In interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles the interaction of the players is governed by rule-based cueing and develops my interest in group behaviour as an organising principle. Players make sounds in response to those made by other ensemble members, either by interrupting sustained sounds, or using short sounds as triggers. The relatively consistent sound world, comprising veiled harmonics created by a movable preparation of the instruments, is occasionally interrupted by noise sounds. The title is taken from the preface to Samuel Johnson’s 1765 edition of the collected plays of Shakespeare:

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.

interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles

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