I think the most beautiful piece I have heard in a long time. Huge congrats Ollie :)

A self-help limbo state yearning for resolution. 
The juicy lovely essence of corporate seduction. 
Great expectations & unfulfilled promises
will guide you through the journey.

The delightful savouring of your desires.
Nestled in the back of your head 
will expand beyond its own greatness.

Softly blended dreams and a soft, soft sigh.
An elevator pitch for your wellbeing!

Soft Opening

Breathe. A meditation.

Performed by Michael Hearty.

Breathe

Performed at Stevenson Hall, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland on 10th May 2023.

Alto Sax - Dean Garrity
Tenor Sax - Ivan Varchenko
Bari Sax - Jack Halforty
Harps - Zuzanna Wasiewicz and Ana Nadais 
Guitar - Finn Mclean
Violin - Sophie Hamilton
Cello - Joanna Stark
Bass - Rhona MacDonald

Outside dining inside

ВИА Поющие Гитары - Толстый Карлсон

The Pitch  s/t [κασέτα] | Granny 18

Boris Baltschun | Electric pump organ, Computer 
Koen Nutters | Upright bass
Morten J. Olsen | Vibraphone, Cassette delay
Michael Thieke | Clarinet

The Pitch is an improvising ensemble of four Berlin-based creative musicians founded in 2009. With acoustic instruments and minimal live-electronics they collectively compose structures which generate hypnotic melodic movement and deep acoustic textures. Bowed and struck vibraphone tones resonate with bowed bass harmonics, doubled by clarinet and reinforced by organ and sine tones. An intensely focused performance creates an atmosphere where the listeners perception is slowed down to make the smallest sonic details move from background to foreground.

The group continually expands into new terrain of musical material and playing styles inspired by fundamental states of matter (and variations thereof) - frozen surfaces, gaseous states, plasmatic fibrils, liquid patterns and molecular motion. Intensely colourful, shifting densities, concentrated, slowly-shifting patterns and fluctuations.

Pro-dubbed cassette | CS 26 | 120 copies

www.grannyrecords.org

buy physical or digital
https://grannyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

Granny 18 | The Pitch - Pillars (side B)

good day good day bad day bad day (I)

picc, fl, alto fl, alto fl, bass fl

The work takes its inspiration from The Magic Flute, Freemasonry, and Beckett’s Come and Go.

Beneficence

Stanzas Live 2019

Called for by Bill Lawns, realised by Molly Edwards and in conjunction with Harry Gorski-Brown. For the Lochan Sketches commissioned by the Nevis Ensemble.

GALLUS D/H_z (prod. BL*ME+HGB)

For violin and fixed media
Based on the Scottish traditional tune of the same name
Performed by Ruairish Geddes (violin), September 2020

'Though hurricanes rise and rise ev'ry wind,
They'll ne'er make a tempest like that in my mind'
	- Allan Ramsey, 1724

'As my melancholy came by degrees, so it wore off by degrees, and as my dark Melancholy bodily distempers abated, so did my spiritual Maladies also, and God convinced me by degrees; that all this was from Satan, his delusions and temptations, working in those dark and black humors, and not from my self, and this God cleared up to me more and more'
	- Hannah Allen, 1683

''Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designes.'
	- Thomas Browne, 1658

'The pain of melancholy could in this sense be interpreted as a sign of the believer's devoutness'
	- Emily Betz, 2020

Lochaber no more was written for the Explorathon Festival in a joint project between RCS and St. Andrews University. It was written in collaboration with Emily Betz, a PhD candidate researching the history of melancholy in Britain, 1580-1780.

The initial tune comes from Farewell to Lochaber, a Scottish traditional tune. We found it in 'The Merry Musician; or, A Cure for the Spleen: A collection of the most diverting songs and pleasant ballads set to the violin and flute, adapted to every taste and humour', published by Walsh, Hare, Bettesworth and Brown, 1716. This tune is in turn thought to be based on Limerick's Lamentation, by 17th century Irish harper Myles O'Reilly, although 'provenance is claimed by both Ireland and Scotland'.

Lochaber no more

Written by Francesca Hawker
Performed by Lea Rüegg

When The Sun Stops Trying

a glasgow-based composer.

https://www.olliehawker.com

ollie@thehawkers.net

Lochaber no more

Ollie Hawker

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