Name: Mirage by Lara Poe in Chamber Works
Duration: 13 min 57 s
Description: Performed by Jaymee Coonjobeeharry (flute), Jonathan Radford (alto saxophone), and Eleanor Kornas (piano)

Pieces containing at least three performers.

Chamber Works

Kaamos

Written in the fall of 2013, this piece was inspired by the Taylor Wessing Photographic prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.  It is being performed on December 13 at the National Portrait Gallery, by Marie Schreer (violin), Elliott Corner (viola), and Sam Woodford (bass clarinet).
The specific portrait in question can be found here: http://www.jaimetravezan.com/Fishermen
This piece was constructed in two interlocking layers- it alternates between a prolation canon and a freely constructed scenario.  

An Eclectic Scene with Flying Fish

Performed by Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by François Lopez- Ferrer
Recorded live in Huddersfield on November 19th, 2022
Publishing: Maison ONA

Le lieu et la formule (2019 - rev. 2022) for large ensemble

Mixed sextet, written for the Composers Studio 2017 at RCM
Performed by:
Alex Roberts, Clarinet in B flat
Juan Antonio Garcia Illanas, Tenor Saxophone
Rory Cartmell, Trombone
Marie Schreer, Violin
Jenny Ames, Viola
Colin Alexander, Cello

Night Train To I Don't Know

Performed by Jaymee Coonjobeeharry (flute), Jonathan Radford (alto saxophone), and Eleanor Kornas (piano)

Mirage

For Ensemble. Based on the text Kali décapitée by Marguerite Yourcenar. Exploring the concept of inescapability of sexual desire vs the wish for serenity. 

Casa da Música - Remix Ensemble, cond. Peter Rundel. Commissioned by Casa da Música as Young Composer in Residence 2016

Désir t'a appris l'inanité du désir

make me uncomfortable.

Winner of 2018 Toru Takemitsu Composition award.

Recorded live on 27 May 2018 in the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yoichi Sugiyama.

Preview/purchase score: www.barnabymartin.com/quanta
Find out more: www.operacity.jp/en/concert/award/result/result2018/index.php

Quanta

Composed in 2011/2012 by me.  
Performed by Emily Potter, Joe Mathias, Emilie Campanelli and Steve Allen.

A Walk in the Woods

Download: https://kud.li/campfr101

This is the first in a series of releases generated via the program of sound, music and arts residencies at Fuse Art Space's remote mountain arts facility, CAMP. Opened in April 2018, CAMP hosts residential workshops in the high French Pyrenees with the world's most acclaimed composers, performers, artists and writers - sessions in 2018 have been lead by Chris Watson, Gavin Bryars, Anne Bean, Eli Keszler, Laraaji and others.

La Rivière et la Forêt was created during Gavin Bryars' residential CAMP course in April 2018. Arriving in Aulus les Bains, Lara noticed the omnipresence of the sound of the river, and decided to work with that sound. Seeking sound away from the river, Lara hiked the forests recording birdsong, forest rivulets and the tin rooves of abandoned shepherd's huts. Working with Audiosculpt and Reaper, the resulting field recordings were blended with sound from the village to create a piece which exposes both the primary sounds of this diverse sonic landscape and a sense of Lara's time spent in the village.

Photography: Sarah Faraday

Lara Poe - La Rivière et la Forêt

Written in response to John Constable's Seascape Study: Boat and Storm Sky, 20 July 1828; as part of the Royal Academy of Arts' 'In Tune with the RA Collection'. 

Bass Clarinet - Jonathan Leeds
Bass Guitar - Matthew Lomax

'Drowning In The Din...' responds to how Constable's coastal scene balances areas of the naked canvas with raw, animated brushstrokes. 

The exposed framework of the painting is reflected in the subtle clicks, breathes, shakes and buzzes that reverberate from the frameworks of the bass clarinet and bass guitar; and the vibrant gesture of the brushstrokes influenced the live electronics which consist of brushstroke recordings, triggered and manipulated in response to how the two instruments move and interact.

Drowning In The Din... - Bass Clarinet, Bass Guitar and Live Electronics [2018]

A more experimentative track of mine, using an idea of descending thirds and minor seconds.  Transformations was composed by me in a 2-week period and played by the Jack quartet (http://www.jackquartet.com).  Enjoy!  

Transformations for String Quartet (played by the Jack Quartet)

Finnish-American composer, PhD student at King’s College London. RCM and BU CFA graduate.  
2021 Ivors Composer Award nominee, Rostrum 2021 participant, 2020 Sinfonia Lahti Nursery Garden Initiative, LSO Panufnik Scheme participant 2018-2019, 2019 Tanglewood Music Center Composition Fellow.  Managed by Blom Music Management.  Published by Fennica Gehrman.

Mirage

Lara Poe

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