I don't know why but the flute is very nice!!!

The gestures you've composed here strike me as unique. I don't think I've heard anything quite like this. Now, let's see how you develop this idea...

Now that I've heard it, I'd better read your notes... 12 hours?! Performed the next day?! It normally takes me 12 hours simply to decide I ought to write something.

this is great, and all the more amazing for its quick turn around from composing to performance... looking forward to hearing the rest of yr works

never really heard this sort of music before....But Im digging it man! so haunting

This piece was written as part of the Composition Marathon held by the Scottish Music Centre in which myself at 9 other composers were asked to write a piece of music in 12 hours to be performed the following day.  The piece was written for Live Music Now's "Flercussion" who performed the piece the day after it was written!
Whilst searching for a concept for my piece regarding the Composition Marathon; I began by looking into marathons and stumbled upon a YouTube video of a man by the name of Georgi Kirilov Georgiev who, whilst running the 100 meter sprint in the European Athletics Championship in Helsinki, breaks his leg which snaps from the knee and bends backwards in the opposite direction!  
This graphic and rather surreal video led me to research the process one goes through to heal such trauma to the body.  One treatment involves a device called a “Fracture Fixation” where by a metallic structure is screwed and bolted to the bone in order to restore shape and stability to the place of trauma so that the shattered bone may correctly heal – in other words; a leg brace.
I then became interested in old pictures I found of the leg braces from the 1800s. 
 To me, the aesthetic of these contraptions were rather barbaric and ever so slightly macabre; and the idea of women of the 1800s concealing one of these monstrous things under their dresses tickled my perception of the 1800s prude.  Thusly, the title “1800s Pin-Up” refers to a fabricated image of a 1800s pin-up model modestly wearing a huge leg brace whilst also referring to the literal “pinning-up” of the leg in order for the healing process to begin.
This piece attempts to convey the healing process through “Fracture Fixation” by taking broken material that is then aided by a framework through which the material can make sense of itself and reform into its original intended entity. 


1800s Pin-Up

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Scotland-based saxophonist and composer Jay Capperauld graduated with distinction from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland after studying Saxophone under the tutelage of Josef Pacewicz. As a saxophonist, Jay has worked with some of the major Scottish Orchestras including; the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Ballet, Scottish Opera and the Scottish Festival Orchestra and has also performed with the Scotland-based Saxophone Quartet, Sax-Ecosse. 
As a composer, Jay has had many successful performances of his works within Scotland; writing for various Instrumentalists and Ensembles including; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, 
Red Note Ensemble, Live Music Now’s Flercussion, MusicLab, Ensemble Thing, Said Ensemble and has also worked with members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.  Jay has worked alongside BBCSSO conductor, Ilan Volkov, in "Hypnic Impact," for solo Soprano Saxophone and Wind Orchestra, which featured Jay himself as the soloist. 
More recently however, Jay achieved success by winning 1st prize in the Dinah Wolfe Memorial Prize 2013 with his work for solo Piano, Christus Tantasticus, which premiered earlier in 2013 with internationally renowned pianist, Sinae Lee, as the performer. 
And, Jay has also recently collaborated on a Ballet with Choreographer, Hubert Essakow, which celebrated the centennial anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” The Ballet premiered at the Tramway (Glasgow) in May of 2013 with dancers from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and instrumentalists from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre-André Valade. 
Jay is in his final year of studies in the Masters of Composition course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Gordon McPherson.

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