Night Thoughts centres around a rocking figure which builds and collapses throughout the piece.

Commissioned by Crash Ensemble for performance at New Music Dublin 2020

Night Thoughts performed by Crash Ensemble

The first of a planned series of remixes coming out over the next few months. This one is based in my Quartet No. 6, released in 2019 on Entangled.

23/7/2021

Quartet No 6 (Remix)

This is a walk through Glasgow and into other places, for a fragile city in a precarious time, towards hope.

Written and performed by Laura Bissell and David Overend
Sound by Matthew Whiteside

Funding from Edinburgh Futures Institute

Hope Street Sound Walk

Quartet No 5 (Remix)

The name Rama is a reference to Arthur C. Clarke’s book Rendezvous with Rama. I always struggle with naming pieces but this reference floated into my head toward the end of the composition process and it seemed to fit the form of the work. It is not meant as an overt programmatic reference or listening instructions, just a small nod to the work of an author which asks big questions in interesting ways.

Rama

Piece One (remix)

Ulation (remix)

The Remixes

Rama (remix)

Solo For Viola Damore And Electronics(remix)

Composed in response to my Quartet No. 6 and released on my second album Entangled in 2019.

Entangled

Response One

Matthew Whiteside, the List Hot 100 2019, is a composer, collaborator, sound designer and concert producer based in Glasgow, named ‘One to Watch’ in the Herald’s Culture Awards 2017 and winner of the Light Moves Innovative Use of Sound Award for his work Entangled with Marisa Zanotti. His music has been described as “Effective and Unsettling” by BBC Music Magazine and “post-minimalist bold sparseness” by the Herald.

Recent work has included a short opera Little Black Lies commissioned by Scottish Opera Connect, with libretto by Helene Grøn; Night Thoughtsi, commissioned by Crash Ensemble for première at New Music Dublin 2020; Rama, commissioned by The Night With… for Ensemble Offspring; Entangled, commissioned by the Institute of Physics for the 2018 NI Science Festival; and working with filmmaker/chorographer Marisa Zanotti creating collaborative work with Magnetic North.

He has received international performances by ensembles and performers such as the RTÉ NSO, Red Note Ensemble, the Aurea Quartet, Pauline Kim Harris and Diagenesis Duo at venues such as New York University, Dublin’s National Concert Hall, Glasgow City Halls, Salem Artworks in New York and the Belfast International Festival at Queen’s. He has been commissioned by Cottiers Chamber Project and Lorimer Productions for Cappella Nova and co-commissioned by sound festival and R-Space gallery to collaborate with Dominika Mayovich to create an interactive sound/art installation which resulted in Exhibiton Music.

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