Great Sacred Music

Led by Revd Dr Sam Wells, with music from St Martin's Voices, directed by Andrew Earis and Gabriella Noble with organist Ben Giddens

Music:
A Cosmic Prayer – Cooman
Morning glory, starlit sky – Barry Rose
The Ground from ‘Sunrise Mass’ – Ola Gjeilo
Fly me to the moon – Bart Howard

Thursday 22nd July - Fly me to the Moon

Inspired by the number of years it takes for each planet in our solar system to orbit around the sun, I transferred each planets’ approximate orbit into a material framework that served as the foundation of piece – chords that invert at different rates according to which planet the chord corresponds to, creating an iso-rhythmic effect. The framework then became the impetus to create additional textural layers, giving the piece small changing and alternating gestures.

Performed by The Spaceship Ensemble (NL)

Conductor: Hardy Li
Piano: Ivan Pavlov
Percussion: João Pedro Borralho
Celesta: Leo Lehtinen
Harp: Liucilè Vilimaitė/Maria Palma
Harpsichord: Christina Kwon
Accordion: Kaat Vanhaverbeke
Guitar: Antonio Peršak

Recorded by Eric Moser and Li Moonyoung

Within an Orbit (2019)

Come to the end of the day

MAAT is Agitation Φ Astarte 23 & Myrh
https://maatphianamyrh.bandcamp.com/

music . Agitation Φ @user-674764601 @agitationphi @user-311133327 @user-723302254 @user-454806171

singing & vocal mix / lyrics / cover art & design : Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

december 29 2018
vocal mix improved jan 3 & jan 6 2019

Timeless Memory - MAAT

Cold Moon in December 
(c) 2021 Linda E. Lucas and Shane D. Dunne

Cold moon in December 
Last one of the year 
Soft snow on hard ground 
Silence in my ear

Sleeping and forgetting 
Don’t mean the same thing 
Mirrors can be teachers 
Other times they sting

I hold on to your breathing 
It keeps my heart alive 
Nothing ever changes that
 It won’t change when I die

Ringing out the old year 
Ringing in the new 
Hanging on for dear life
 Thankful I’m with you

Cold moon in December
 In the silence of the snow 
Days are getting longer 
This I know

We happily remember 
To happily forget 
Ringing out the old year 
Paying down bad debt

And if you go before me 
To the place we cannot see
 I will be here waiting 
And you will wait for me

So I hold on to your breathing 
My lifeboat in the storm 
I’ll see you in the morning 
And we’ll be safe and warm

Cold moon in December 
Last one of the year
 Soft snow on hard ground 
Silence in my ear

Ringing out the old year 
Ringing in the new 
Hanging on for dear life 
Thankful I’m with you

Cold Moon In December

Serendip Lab's 10th anniversary compilation on download here : https://serendiplab.bandcamp.com/album/serendip-lab-10-ans-ser011

In this strange year's ending, and to ward off the curse, Serendip Lab offers you a nice end of year gift ! 

Unfortunately for his 10th birthday the festival did not happen this year. Nevermind, a compilation project with all invited artists since 2010 was born and what a good surprise people did answer the call : more than 90 tracks, reflecting the festival / label eclecticism and its evolution. 
From Pierre Bastien's mechanical music, present for the first year, to KK NULL's cyberpunk, whose cassette was our last release, very diverse scenes and styles are represented : psychedelic rock, post punk, improvised, concrete, industrial or rave music, synthwave, IDM, noise, rap, électro… Coming from all around France (Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Rennes, Lille...), Europe (Suede, Denmark, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Italy), or the world (USA, Australia, Indonesia, Japan), pioneers or new comers are mixed, as usual, in a huge and generous party, like a big dadaist mutant family.

So thanks a lot to the hundreds of artists who have participate to the adventure since all these amazing years, to the friends, volunteers, a lot of love to the artists in this compilation, and even more to Patrice Curtillat for the mastering, and Jean Turner for the artwork, and at last a stream of love to you all, hope to meet you soon, best wishes !

Compilation Anniversaire Serendip Lab 10 ans

04 - Superstar & Star - Could it be The One I Love

Patrick Ellis (b. 1994, UK) is a composer, performer and curator based in London. His music has been described as being "focused, intense and unrelenting" (Gaudeamus Jury, 2024), with much of his work utilising limited musical materials, small developments and juxtapositions.

He has worked with many acclaimed ensembles including Terra Invisus (UK), Ensemble Klang (NL), collective lovemusic (FR), XTRO Percussion (NL), the Residentie Orkest (NL), Kluster 5 (NL), Orkest de Ereprijs (NL), The Tantrum Saxophone Quartet (NL), The Spaceship Ensemble (NL), Kirkos (IE) and 315 Ensemble (US/UK), and has collaborated with soloists such as Kathryn Williams (flute), Huw Morgan (organ), Alfian Emir Adytia (cello), Dauphine Van der Velphen (saxophone), Chris Cresswell (electric guitar) and Carson Cooman (organ).

Upcoming projects include a new multimedia work exploring burnout within the classical music industry for the ensemble Standard Issue, a new piece for electric guitar and fixed media for Chris Cresswell, as well as a long-form collaboration with the French-Canadian cellists Laurence Gaudreau and Audréanne Filion.

Patrick's music has been presented at numerous festivals and concert series across the European, North American, Asia and Australasia, including, Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Festival Dag in de Branding (NL), November Music (NL), Rainy Days Festival (LU), Mittelfest and Mittelyoung Festival (IT), De Link Tilburg (NL), Lilium SoundArt (IT), Sundays at The Hugh Lane Gallery (IE), AżTak Festival (PL), New Music Now NL's Dag van de Componist (NL), Click Fest (US), Sounding Here (NL), Kirkos Ensemble's Biosphere Festival (IE), Union Musicale (IT), Mainly Slow Organ Music (UK), Kammer Klang (UK), the Frequency Series Chicago (US), Ideas of Noise Festival (UK) and the Harmos Plural Festival (PT).

In 2024, Patrick was nominated for the Gaudeamus Award and in 2022, he was the Artist in Residence for the AMPA Fontys/De Link Residency programme in Tilburg, The Netherlands. He has also been a part of the Psappha Composing For Piano Scheme in 2019-20, the 25th Edition of Orkest de Erepijs’ Young Composers Meeting and Kathryn Williams' innovative Coming Up for Air Project.

His music has been broadcast on Dutch radio stations, including NPO Radio 4, NPO Klassiek, Concertzender,and Stranded FM, as well as on the US station WCNY, and has been featured on releases from Birmingham Record Company and Huddersfield Contemporary Records.

Patrick is also the artistic director of Open Union, an electric guitar and modular synth duo with composer-performer colleague Peter Bell. Described by the treasured composer Howard Skempton as being 'sometimes subtle and unstable; sometimes rich and dense', the duo aims to build up strong collaborative relationships to create new works. Their current collaborators are Christine Cornwell, Wilson Leywantono, May Chi, Paolo Griffin and Seán Clancy. The duo have performed across the UK at events such as Ealing Extranormal, AMOK, Don't Mind Control, Birmingham Modular Organisation and CODA Festival. In 2025, they co-hosted a portrait concert with saxophonist David Zucchi featuring music by Paolo Griffin at the Hundred Years Gallery; earlier in the year, they supported Passepartout Duo at Centrala Space, Birmingham as part of their UK Tour, and in 2023, undertook a mini tour of The Netherlands as part of the Sounding Here concert series, where they performed at Splendor in Amsterdam and Batavierhuis in Rotterdam.

Alongside composing and performing, Patrick works as the creative director of PRXLUDES, an online contemporary music magazine, platform, and resource dedicated to the promotion of the work of emerging and early-career composers. Together, with the artistic director Zygmund de Somogyi and a team of contributors, they have written about over 125 composers, ensembles and music organisations from the UK and abroad. In 2025, they began hosting events, presenting Alex Groves' DANCE SUITE (performed by Zubin Kanga) as part of PRS Foundation New Music Biennial 2025. Recently, PRXLUDES have been awarded a multi-year partnership with The Hinrichsen Foundation in order to help platform emerging and early-career composers through a series of concerts, conversations, and commissions throughout the UK from 2025 to 2028.

He holds a Masters degree in composition from the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (Royal Conservatoire of The Hague) and a Bachelor's degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His principal tutors have included Martijn Padding, Guus Janssen, Andrew Hamilton, Seán Clancy, Ed Bennett, Howard Skempton and Michael Wolters.