(2017)
ded. to Philip Thomas & Cassandra Miller
pf Ben Smith
Durham, June 2021
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZX8WNkc2VM)
rec. Eric Egan
art: Lenore Tawney, "Lekythos" (1963)

For piano (dancing)

pf. Ensemble Modern
cond. Enno Poppe
premiere, Frankfurt, March 2020
contains a field recording by Vincent Duseigne of veal calves being separated from their mothers 
(2015, https://archive.org/details/aporee_30571_35170)
art: Egon Schiele, "Sawmill" (1913)

We are all okay

Finished Oct 2013. New recording Apr 2016.

Organ piece

Suite (2021)
world premiere, recorded at Wigmore Hall, July 2022

Explore Ensemble:
Taylor MacLennon, fl
Alex Roberts, cl
David López Ibáñez, vln
Morag Robertson, vla
Deni Teo, cello
Siwan Rhys, piano/kbd

Nicholas Moroz, audio recording/mixing

full video performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlpdFkvEdLo

co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Explore Ensemble, supported by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

art: Maria Sibylla Merian — ‘Pineapple and examples of five insects’, from Merian's Drawings of Surinam Insects (1701-5)

Prerecorded sounds utilise three public domain field recordings:
1. Sounds of a pier being demolished near the entrance to the Terminal Island Prison and Deportation Center, Los Angeles, US. Rec. Steven Rowell, 2012.
2. School children sing national anthem in the morning before class in Pokigron, Boven, Suriname. Rec. Gerrit Kalsbeek, 2000.
3. Jarred fruit flies trapped in an empty, unrinsed wine bottle, Tartu, Estonia. Rec. Patrick Tubin McGinley, 2011.

Suite

May song (2022)
six voices and prerecorded audio
Performed by Exaudi, at Exposure 2023, Milton Court, 22 May 23

Cressida Sharp, sop.
Jessica Gillingwater, mez-sop.
Tom Williams, counterten.
David de Winter, ten.
Michael Hickman, bari.
Simon Whiteley, bass

James Weeks, cond.

Text by Goethe (1771), trans. Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon (in Jeschke, Anthology of Poems by Drunk Women, Materials, 2018 http://material-s.blogspot.com/2020/10/lisa-jeschke-anthology-of-poems-by.html.)

How beautiful shines 
To me, the nature! 
How the sun glows! 
How the mead smiles!

Blossoms penetrate 
From each branch 
And a thousand voices 
Out of the shrubbery

And joy, and joy 
From each breast. 
O earth, o sun,
O joy o lust!

O love, o love!
As golden, as beautiful 
As the morning clouds 
On those heights

You bless gloriously 
The fresh field
The blossoms’ steam 
The bountiful world.

O girl, girl
How I love you! 
Your eyes gaze! 
How you love me!

This is the way the lark loves 
Song and air
And morning flowers
The smell of heaven

How much I love you, 
My blood warmed
By you, for me, a youth, 
And joy and courage

For new songs
And dances
May you be happy eternally 
As long as you love me.

Prerecorded sounds include two field recordings of a wind turbine in Bernau bei Berlin, recorded by Peter Cusack, 2021.

Art: Unknown photographer, WT-Energiesystems Albertshof wind turbines, Bernau bei Berlin, c. 2020

Thanks to James Weeks and Exaudi, and to Paolo Carlotto and Nick Moroz for audio engineering assistance.

May song

"Say hello say goodbye goodbye"

for two pianists, with teaspoons

(London 2014)

Going in and coming back out again

four singers, two organs, two amplified surfaces

recorded London, Autumn 2014

Of the immortality of the crab

"We twa hae run about the braes ... We twa hae paidl’d in the burn"

Played by Ruben Zilberstein (vln), Zoe Saubat (vc) and Katherine Tinker (pno), at St James Church Islington, part of 840.

Jean Armour (1765-1834) was the wife of Robert Burns

Trio "O, Jean Armour"

For computer controlled piano, tape, and jumping person. Performed by RHEA, computer controlled piano built by Winfried Ritsch. https://algo.mur.at/projects/autoklavierspieler Recorded by David Pocknee in Huddersfield, October.

Jumping song

pf Explore Ensemble
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Nov 2020, @ BBC Maida Vale

Sentimental drifting music

Dress rehearsal. Performed by Marie Schreer and John Garner, London 2016. Commissioned by Listenpony www.listenpony.com

The performance recording is issued on Mainly Two: Live at Listenpony, available to download here: http://www.listenpony.com/recordings/live-listenpony-mainly-two/

your wits an E la

For piano (singing)

Performed by Orkest de Ereprijs, Utrecht, Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2016

More music for the asleep

violin with piano
(2016)

written for Aisha Orazbayeva and Joseph Houston
live recording, 26 Jan ’17
St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield
recorded by Sam Gillies

art:
William Orpen
Night (no.2)
1907

Claribel

soprano + backing
(2016/7)

words by Caitlin Doherty

sung by Juliet Fraser
live recording (premiere)
9 Feb, St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield
recorded by Sam Gillies

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what light fear blanches 
the alarm
the photographic
hours delay waking until 
sleep again

concede it to a grey- 
not-love, the morning calls 
with no promise 
to refresh

& weighting is beyond 
this hour, each word 
a serious intent, an 
object pain

there are only so many 
Messages of Love
I can send to you
while we are both awake 
the ocean becomes dark 
we trade symbols of hearts 
freely and in colour

— Caitlin Doherty

While we are both

Written April 2016.
Excerpt of live recording at Tectonics, May 2017. 
BBC Scottish Symphony, cond. Ilan Volkov. 
Recording belongs to BBC.

ded. to my parents.

art: 
Camille Pissarro 
Entrée du village de Voisins 
1872

yt: PqTLZetKieY

Ambling, waking (excerpt)

Feb-Sept 2017
Quatuor Bozzini:
Isabelle Bozzini, Stéphanie Bozzini, Alissa Cheung, Clemens Merkel
Live recording (premiere)
King's College Chapel, Aberdeen
Sound festival, October 2017

Thanks to Sound and Music, and Quatuor Bozzini for helping create this piece, as part of Composers' Kitchen 2017

Quartet: Carrying

Originally installed in the upper room of the Whipple Museum of Science, Cambridge, October 2011.

The title is a quote from Alan Turing.

The main part of the exhibition (the first room, a 4-channel installation) was completed in collaboration with Oscar Dub. 

Machines to speak and feel themselves thinking

For cello and tape. 

Performed by Oliver Coates, 22nd October 2011 at West Road Recital Room, Cambridge.

all and said carefully

oct-dec ’17
written for Plus-Minus
ded. to Bryn Harrison, Amber Priestley, Sergei Zagny, Laurence Crane;
Matthew Shlomowitz & Plus-Minus

studio recording
Irine Røsnes (vln), Colin Frank (pc), me (kbd/guitar)

1. 0:00   2. 2:21   3. 7:41   4. 16:28

fp was given by Mark Knoop, Tom Pauwels, Serge Vuille & Kasia Ziminska @ City University

art (clockwise from top left): Joseph Albers — Study for Homage to the Square, 1967; Homage to the Square: SP–IV, 1967; Untitled (from Homage au Carré portfolio), 1965; Homage to the Square: Starting, 1968.

Set of four

Oy, for six clarinets and almglocken, 2009. 

Performed by the Aurora Orchestra at concert hall, Royal College of Music, conducted by Nicholas Collon.

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