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

Performed by Zakia Fawcett (viola) and Ollie Hawker (electronics), 19/11/2020, RCS

An instructional text score for any sustaining instrument and live electronics.

I made a Max MSP patch to analyse the first two notes of the piece and send data on the eight most resonant frequencies within them to several electronic chimes, along with very narrow EQ filters which are applied to the live instrument, creating a unique set of resonant 'strings' for it.

The piece begins meditatively, with the resonances reacting quickly to the live input. But with each of Dr Willie Ong's tips, the strings are increasingly delayed to create a textural frame for the player, who is encouraged to become more gestural and to explore the resonances that are swirling around them.

The original video I got the audio from can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbpA46TIsd4

Seven Tips for Anxiety and Nervousness

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)

Written by Francesca Hawker
Performed by Lea Rüegg

When The Sun Stops Trying

a glasgow-based composer.

https://www.olliehawker.com

ollie@thehawkers.net

Seven Tips for Anxiety and Nervousness

Ollie Hawker

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