Inspired by the Dylan Thomas poem 'The force that through the green fuse drives the flower' and featuring the voice of the poet Julie Boden.

The Force (2014)- Finalist in the Bangor Dylan Thomas Prize for Electroacoustic Music

Talasgair was made from recordings made in Talisker bay on the Isle of Skye. The main material consists of recordings made of the sea and barnacles on the rocks at low tide. While much of the material has been transformed, characteristics of the source sounds are present throughout. The rising and falling of waves is a major theme of the piece as are the ‘barnacle showers’ that appear throughout the second half. Talasgair was inspired by the grandeur and elemental rawness of the relationship between the landscape and ocean and is informed by memories of standing ‘on the shore where the great white mouth opens between two hard jaws’ (from Sorley Maclean’s poem Tràighean).

Talasgair (2018)

Inspired by a poem by Julie Boden this uses recordings made in Fingal's Cave on the Isle of Staffa off the west coast of Scotland.

David Holland