for guitar, bass clarinet and any two bowed string instruments, with weeds (2021)

commissioned and performed by Prague Quiet Music Collective:

Ian Mikyska (guitar and weeds), Irvin Venyš (bass clarinet and weeds), Milan Kárník Jakeš (violin and weeds), Luan Gonçalves (double bass and weeds)

First performed at Prague Quiet Music Festival, Museum of Music, Prague, 18 December 2021

Live recording of premiere

*****

Weeds: unwanted plants, plants in the wrong place:

unwanted, small, straggling, spindly, rough, common, not useful, without elegant form, texture or colour, lacking in definition, unclear, lacking in strength;

in the wrong place, unboundaried, messy, in the cracks, spilling-out, unplanned, unfixed, in-between, uncultivated;

weedweaver is a music of weeds. In the dishonourable ontology of the weed it asserts beauty: fragile, entangled, various, lively.

weedweaver

singer-songwriter, composer, sound designer, electronic music artist

Drummer:

Caligula
Flacid House  
Larri and the Lepidopterists
DUCK 'N' THE BOYZ
The Equation of Time
Grumpy Bandersnatch
The Dark And Bloody Ground
Vulgar
ERIC 'N' THE BOYZ
Crack Rock
Gravity Shadow

Flacid House You Tube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ESn7w30nD3XyOCQBa5OAA

Caligula YouTube Channel 
https://www.youtube.com/@caligulacaligula1086

Since its debut in 2002, EXAUDI has emerged as one of Britain’s leading contemporary music ensembles. Founded by James Weeks (director) and Juliet Fraser (soprano), EXAUDI is based in London and draws its singers from among the UK’s brightest vocal talents. EXAUDI’s special affinity is for the radical edges of contemporary music, at home equally with maximal complexity, microtonality and experimental aesthetics. EXAUDI celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012 with major UK and international tours and new commissions from Matthew Shlomowitz, Joanna Bailie, Bryn Harrison and Aaron Cassidy, amongst others.

EXAUDI gratefully acknowledges support from the PRS for Music Foundation.

weedweaver

James Weeks Composer