4-He, She and Doxy

Double for two guitars tuned in 1/12th of a tone.
Estelle Lallement and Filipe Marques, guitars

Recording live see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5pGlpHKX0

I Double (2015)

On 25th May Ireland will vote on amending its restrictive abortion laws. I was asked by Room for Rebellion and C.A.N.V.A.S. to create a piece for a compilation in aid of pro-choice charities to be released prior to the referendum. For logistical reasons this compilation won’t be released until later in the year, so I’ve decided to share the piece now, a week away from the referendum.

If you’re an Irish citizen or resident, please donate to Together for Yes:
https://www.togetherforyes.ie/donate/
If you’re not an Irish citizen or resident, please donate to Abortion Support Network or Alliance for Choice: https://www.asn.org.uk  http://www.alliance4choice.com/donate-2/

ABOUT THE PIECE:

“I am an old woman now, with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge.” 

Like most people of my generation, I studied the work of Peig Sayers (1873-1958) at school and the opening lines of her 1936 autobiography "Peig" are burned into my consciousness. "Peg 2018" takes those opening lines as a starting point, but departs immediately from the original, imagining the reflections of an entirely different, fictional Peg, an Irishwoman born in the 1950s. 

NOTE: The piece in no way represents the views of Peig Sayers or her descendants.
CONTENT ADVISORY: Material may be distressing for some listeners.

Image: Gustave Courbet's Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl

Peg 2018

Live / Studio Caracol, Bagnolet, France
Félicie Bazelaire, cello
Léo Dupleix, electronic, laptop

Cancer Des Tropiques

Au milieu de la nuit
Composition de Félicie Bazelaire 
pour et avec 
Léo Dupleix, sine tones
Taku Sugimoto, guitare

Live at Les temps du corps / Atelier Tampon-Nomade / Février 2019

Au Milieu De La Nuit

Domenico Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonata K273

Playlist:

Shelley Hirsch
"Phillip"
from far in,far out
(Tzadik)

Cassandra Miller
"Duet for Cello and Orchestra"(extract)
from O Zomer!
(Another Timbre)

Maria Carta
"Trallallera"
from Canti della Sardegna
(Recording Arts)

Anonymus cart-driver recorded by Domenico Lanza
"Carrittera"
from Italian Treasury:Sicily
(Rounder Records)

Cassandra Miller
"Traveller Song"(extract)
from Songs about Singing
(all that dust)

Niccolò Castiglioni
"Qoudlibet,da Figure"
from Inverno In-Ver
(Dischi Ricordi)

Cassandra Miller
"Rounding"
(Unreleased)

Anonymous cart-driver recorded by Domenico Lanza
"Chia arti nfami è lu carritteri"
from Catalogo delle raccolte 1966-70
(Folkstudio)

Pauline Oliveros
"Crossing the Sands"
from The Roots of the Moment
(Hat Hut)

Cassandra Miller
"So Close" (extract)
(Unreleased)

Ilan Volkov - At Home 11 with Cassandra Miller

Soprano Juliet Fraser has a repertoire dominated by the very old and the very new. Specialising in the gnarly edges of contemporary classical music, she is an active commissioner of new music and has worked particularly closely with composers Pascale Criton, Bernhard Lang, Cassandra Miller, Matthew Shlomowitz and Rebecca Saunders. She regularly performs as a guest soloist with ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik, Ensemble Modern, Plus-Minus and Talea, and has created duo projects with percussionist Maxime Echardour, double bassist Florentin Ginot and pianist Mark Knoop. Juliet is founder and artistic director of the eavesdropping festival in London, co-director of all that dust, a new label for new music, and co-founder and a core member of EXAUDI vocal ensemble.

4-He, She and Doxy

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