It's wonderful how you treat the string texture within these three pieces!

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Combination of tracks 1 and 2, plus semi improvised vocals.

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Recording of the premier of Funeral Sentences at the DKDM Pulsar festival. Kai Lindal (solo trumpet) and the DKDM Percussion Ensemble, Conducted by Jean Thorel.

Funeral Sentences

The mist cleared and the light changed and suddenly there were glaciers
for string quartet
by Luciano Williamson

Score: https://issuu.com/lucianowilliamson/docs/lwilliamson_the_mist_cleared_and_th

Violin I - Elliot Kempton
Violin II - Lydia Barrington
Viola - Mike Cliburn
Cello - Samantha Drees

In early September 2018 I went to Svalbard for a week. It took 24 hours from take-off at Heathrow to landing in Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost functioning civilian settlement with over 1000 permanent residents, where I stayed with an American dock worker, sleeping on a mattress on his living room floor (while he slept on the sofa; a Norwegian coastguard had rented the bedroom for the week). While I was there the temperature ranged from 1-7ºC, I wasn't allowed out of the town limits without an armed guard in case of polar bear attack, it snowed on the hills around the town, and I hiked across two glaciers and up a mountain.

What really struck me during my stay was the everchanging nature of the surrounding landscape. Presumably a result of the extreme weather, it seemed as though everything was different every time I looked, mountains appearing and disappearing of their own accord. One such experience in particular stuck with me; when I first arrived there was a great deal of fog surrounding the town, and I couldn't see all the way up the valley. Some time later it cleared, and when I looked up expecting what I had seen before I instead saw glaciers. It was startling, to say the least.

The mist cleared...

Psappha Ensemble - http://psappha.com - Ben Hudson (Bassoon) 
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crinkum-crankum - elaborate decoration or detail; something full of twists and turns.

A single thread slowly becomes increasingly tangled in the middle, twisting and turning, folding back on itself, knotty, matted. Only a short length remains neat, protruding from the other end of the puzzle.

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Psappha’s ‘Composing for…’ programme is supported by: Arts Council England; Garfield Weston Foundation; Idlewild Trust; PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner scheme; Radcliffe Trust; and RVW Trust.

Luciano Williamson (born 1996) - Crinkum-Crankum

Psappha Ensemble - http://psappha.com - Ben Hudson (Bassoon) 
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Compos Mentis, the useful Latin phrase we’ve held onto, translates literally into English as ‘of sound mind’. This fast and fluid solo for bassoon primarily stems from a history of listening to bebop music and its lucid tangling phrases and wild imagination. The swing is a fundamental element to the piece as might be expected, but frequent exchanges with straight, compound and tuplet rhythms add to its developed identity, keeping the feel fresh and evolving. Dynamism in pitch and volume is also exploited, with coats of colour from timbral techniques splashed onto a melody that explores and recycles itself freely, evocatively and to a post-modal mindset. Compos Mentis was written for Ben Hudson in 2019 as part of the Psappha Composing For: Bassoon project.

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Psappha’s ‘Composing for…’ programme is supported by: Arts Council England; Garfield Weston Foundation; Idlewild Trust; PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner scheme; Radcliffe Trust; and RVW Trust.

Daniel Soley (born 1995) - Compos Mentis

Performed by The Ligeti Quartet in March 2019

Terrible Light

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Kirsten Evans - Dark Pool - BROKEN STRINGS

Recording from the world premiere of VÍDDIR, February 19th 2020 in Grundtvigs Kirke, Copenhagen.

Performers:
Bass Flute 1: Björg Brjánsdóttir
Bass Flute 2: Marie Sønderskov
Bass Flute 3: Flavia Huarachi
Bass Flute 4: Sofia Kayaya
Bass Flute 5: Beata Preisaite
Alto Flute 1: Steinunn Vala Pálsdóttir
Alto Flute 2: Marina Cyrino
Flute: María Ösp Ómarsdóttir
Piccolo: Christine Elizabeth Clancy
NEKO3: Fei Nie, Kalle Hakosalo, Lorenzo Colombo
Bass Guitar: Skúli Sverrisson
Double Bass: Bára Gísladóttir

Recording: Alma Hede and Yangyadi (Chloe) Deng
Mix: Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir

Photo: Therese Precht Vadum

VÍDDIR

Duprass was written in 2019 for the Arctic Philharmonic Sinfonietta and the Njord Biennale. This recording is of the DKDM sinnfonietta and was made at Pulsar 2020 this performance was conducted by Chris Austin. Cheers

Duprass

Orchestra recorded on the Newman Stage at 20th Century Fox on August 19, 2020.

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The mist cleared...

Luciano Williamson

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