Quite like the stop-go thing you've got going on here :)

This is an absolutely fab piece Ol, love it.

The performance of this at Aberdeen Art Gallery last month was the highlight of the Sound Festival for me.  Very inspiring!

WATER MUSIC source to sea - Set 05 -
Changeless and the changed - David Fennessy 
Whale, Bow, Echo - Alex South & Sequoia

ECHOES

Tom David Wilson's Quindecatet, 15 pianos, 30 hands, multi-track recorded by Simon Smith.

Tom David Wilson Quindecatet

Youthclubbed

Studies have shown there are links between Facebook usage and depression. Users only tend to share high points in their lives such as engagements, new cars or
expensive holidays. People generally choose to completely avoid sharing their low points
in life. Facebook has also been shown to fuel narcissism. Users post pictures of themselves, usually with some sort of filter or effect, in order to create their own ideal image and gain
approval from their peers. "Fake" draws inspiration from the way in which people utilise
social media, in particular Facebook, in order to share a selected perfect view of their lives. This in turn creates a false image to others, often resulting in depression, loneliness and
low self-esteem. Despite all of this, I’m still addicted to it.

Accordion - Aileen Sweeney
Violin I - Abigail Young
Violin II - Lisa Robertson
Viola - Theodore Chung Lei
Cello - Adam Hall

"FAKE" for Accordion and String Quartet

Kill The Vampyrs

A piece for contrabass flute and 12 solo strings, performed by Richard Craig and NYOS: Futures (the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland)

For many years, I have been obsessed with all species of fish, to the extent that I would probably class myself as an amateur icthyologist (someone who studies fish). I was particularly interested in large fish and sharks when growing up and although I have never got round to swimming with sharks, it is on the list of things to do.

I have a strong memory of snorkelling, while on a family holiday in Menorca, in 1993, and being transfixed by an Ocean Sunfish, which was circling the small bay in which I was swimming. Although it was a small member of this unusual-looking species, it was still some 6 feet long (and tall), with a number of smaller fish swimming alongside it and probably weighed many times the small frame of my 15-year-old self.

I imagine the contrabass flute in this work to act as a sort of instigator of musical material, dragging the 12 string players along with it, as it tries to find its way into the open.

Close to Shore takes its title from a book by Michael Capuzzo about the shark attacks that ultimately inspired Peter Benchley to write Jaws, in New Jersey, in the summer of 1916. 


Close To Shore

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