10 Polaroids was commissioned by Live Music Now Scotland for the Dohnányi String Trio as part of the 2016 Kimie Composition Prize presented in collaboration with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and funded by Kimie Trust. The piece was written for both dementia carehome and traditional concert hall settings.

I - It's through the cracks that the light gets in - (0'00" - 1'07")
II - Learn to love solitude - (1'09" - 2'49")
III - Dakas - (2'49" - 3'15") 
IV - A glimpse with our sightless eyes - (3'18" - 3'59")
V - Lara - (4'01 - 7'26")
VI - Our Earthly Lives - (7'28" - 8'32")
VII - Parade - (8'37" - 10'03")
VIII - Silhouette - (10'05" - 12'39")
IX - Succession of Petals - (12'41" - 12'56")
X - Church in the water - (13'00" - 13'34")

’10 Polaroids’ is a work for string trio in ten short movements, each one based on a different Polaroid photograph taken by the seminal Russian filmmaker, Andrey Tarkovsky. The images were selected from a collection of Tarkovsky’s personal Polaroids, which were curated and edited by Giovanni Chiaramonte and Tarkovsky’s son, published under the title, ‘Instant Light’. These hauntingly beautiful stills were taken between 1979 and 1984 in both Russia and Italy. The photos taken in his homeland are melancholic and evoke strong feelings of nostalgia. Often portraits of his wife, son and dog, these earlier photographs embody Tarkovsky’s desire to stop time. The Polaroids taken in Italy, in the last few years of his life, appear to capture a certain luminosity, manifested in a focus on ruins and eerie, unsettling interior and exterior shots. They seem to conjure up a powerful feeling of isolation and a sense of longing for his family who were still in Russia. A rather fitting summation of the photographs is posed in the introduction to ‘Instant Light’ - “His images seem to capture eternity in a moment.” 

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10 Polaroids (Dohnányi String Trio)[2017]

This sounds a bit pompous but I will not be collaborating or sanctioning remixes for the next 12 months ie till October 2021. I want a complete break.

این دهاتی‌های عوضی که هم می‌خوان بوکس کار کنن، هم سیگار بکشن

Composer from the UK currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Working in acoustic and electronic sound, text, video and performance​

Graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus.

e-mail: grousey2@yahoo.co.uk

10 Polaroids (Dohnányi String Trio)[2017]

Matthew Grouse