FIVE WAYS OF LOOKING AT FIRE IN THE DARK

A piece from Breath Cycle - our project with people with cystic fibrosis.

Words: David James Brock

Music: Gareth Williams

1.

Can I start as thunder? Can I shout at fire?

Rumble. Rumble. Flicker. Flicker.

I will sing my voice to the sky, and then higher,

like a spark dancing off the flame.

Exhale.

2.

I rely on what I hear when only sound surrounds me.

I will build a house. I will show you to a window.

Look. Listen. Every sound moves the flame.

Exhale.

3. 

Can I sing a flame? Can I be a dragon?

Roar and roar and burn and blaze.

I will fly my voice to the sky, and watch it soar—

the sound is the sun at dawn.

Exhale.

4.

The dark might make us children, but oh it binds.

Hear us laugh across the room. Hear us sigh.

Surprise fills our lives, like stars in the skies,

and we make our own constellations. 

Exhale.

5.

Can I see your face? There’s that little glow.

I want your breath revealed by what it moves.

And now I know, now I know, now I know.

Five Ways Of Looking At Fire In The Dark (from Breath Cycle)

Home Fires - Main Theme

www.abelkorzeniowski.com/
www.facebook.com/abelkorzeniowski
twitter.com/korzeniowski
http://we-movie.com/

Abel Korzeniowski - Abdication

When The Fires Go Out

Lark's Grad Recital 2016

Rithron

Forest of Words depicts relationships between individuals, soured by misunderstandings. The singers depict abstract characters, expressing a profound frustration at the lack of communication with each other. The instrumentation surrounding them meanwhile, paints the backdrop for a desolate landscape, where the two can not overcome the obstacles they have created that keep them apart. 

The work is arranged for Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Vibraphone and two Sopranos.
It was premiered at the 2018 Trinity College Dublin Graduate Showcase as part of the requirements for an MPHIL in Music Composition.

Performances by:

Bill Dowdall 
Elizabeth Hilliard
Sylvia O'Brian
Richard O'Donnell
Paul Roe

Forest of Words

The Prayers of The Headwaters depicts the moments of introspection we are forced to take when faced with the immense majesty of nature. The music works its way through acts of reminiscence, wistfulness and at times regret. The layering of emotions and memories echoed by the moving waters below. This composition was written at Bruar Falls in Scotland.  

The work is arranged for chamber orchestra, performed by a pickup orchestra organised by Dr. Thomas Butler. 

Performances by:

Flute: Graham Dickson

Oboe: Irena Klimach

Clarinet: Pawel Jaworski

Bassoon: Victoria Lopez

Horn: Robert Newth

Trumpet: David Cumming

Violin 1: Yoan Hlebarov, Danny Miller

Violin 2: Diarmaid Heffernan, Jaime Rees

Viola: Anja Ormiston, Sasha Buettner

Cello: Heather Lynn, Victor Nekludov

Double Bass: Chris Sergeant

Prayers of The Headwaters

Lark McIvor is a composer and musicologist with a Masters in Music Composition from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in Musicology from the University of Edinburgh. McIvor is passionate about cultural representation in contemporary classical music and new methods of incorporating informed ethnomusicological compositional practices.
 
Her work incorporates ethnomusicological research, graphic notation and experimental composition and has been performed and exhibited through the Royal Scottish Academy’s Annual Exhibition (2021) her research has been widely presented at a number of conferences, including the collaborative postgraduate research seminar between the UK’s Royal Musical Association (RMA) and the Netherlands’ Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (KVNM). McIvor has a publication in Oxford Early Music and has a forthcoming article following her presentation at Composition & Research Symposium at GMPU in Klagenfurt. She was awarded multiple grants for her research; including the Student Experience Grant (Innovation Initiative Grants 2020) and the Festival of Creative Learning Award (FCL 2019).

Rithron

Lark McIvor

Related tracks