Name: numbers 91 - 95 by Philip Venables by RiotEnsmble
Duration: 8 min 8 s
Description: Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Philip Venables' numbers 91-95 from Kings Place, London. 17.09.18

Bian Zhou 扁舟
Written for 1st edition Universite d'Altitute. 
Performed by Ensemble Multilaterale
Conductor: Léo Warynski
Cello: Pablo Tognan
Harp: Aurélie Saraf
Bass Clarinet: Alain Billard
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『I commented, “Do you happen to know the nature of water or the moon? Water is always on the run like this but never lost in its course; the moon always waxes and wanes but never out of its sphere. When viewed from a changing perspective, nothing in this universe can remain unchanged even within a blink of an eye, but when looked at from an unchanging viewpoint, everything conserves itself, and so do we. Therefore, what’s in them to be admired? Besides, in this universe, everything has its rightful owner. If something does not belong to you, you shall not even have a bit of it. However, the fresh breeze over this river and the bright moon above the mountains are exceptions. If you can hear it, it is a sound to you; if you can see it, it is a view. It never ends and is never exhausted. It is the infinite treasure that nature has for us to enjoy. 』 - Qian Chibifu, Su Shi

扁舟 Bian Zhou (2016)

Premiered Feb of 2017 by Ensemble 20+

For ensemble

(3) Movements (2016-17)for chamber

Written for TANA Quartet during 2017 Royaumont |  ACADÉMIE VOIX NOUVELLES. Premiere on 10th September, 2017, Royaumont, France.

神秀說：「身是菩提樹，心如明鏡台，時時勤拂拭，勿使惹塵埃。」 
慧能說：「菩提本無樹，明鏡亦非台，本來無一物，何處惹塵埃。」

I imagine cleaning the big ancient Buddhist temple, but in the end I’m cleaning my soul. This piece is inspired by the two famous poems in China from one thousand year ago.

Shenxiu – 
I strive to be a tree of bodhi,
And have a heart of a clear reflecting plane,
Forever polishing it I will be,
To never let it be dusted and vain.


Huineng – 
The bodhi did not really the form of a tree possess,
A clear reflector restricted not to a plane;
When not a thing ever really mattered,
Where could dust have gathered and lain?

Cleaning The Temple (2017)

For flute, piano, and electronics; 2018

Commissioned and premiered by Amanda Lowry and Jason White on April 30, 2018, in Waterloo, ON. Live recording.

Sunder

Nadir (2017), for wind orchestra
Portuguese Symphonic Band [BSP] conducted by Pedro Neves
Live recording, Casa da Música, Porto 2018

{ Prize winner - VI Composition Competition by BSP }

Nadir (2017) - for wind orchestra [excerpt]

For two percussionist and one musician on No Input Mixer.

Premiered June 22 in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the Nief-Norf Music Festival.
Winner of the Gaudeamus Award 2019.

Talk Circus (2018)for 2 percussionist and 1 musician on NiPM.

Please use headphones.

Bass clarinet - Heather Ryall
Flute - Fiona Sweeney/ Katie Macdonald
Violoncello - Evie Coplan/ Christopher Brown

Written for and first performed by Heather Ryall, Fiona Sweeney and Gabrielle Yuen at Barbican OpenFest's 'Unfinished' in The Charterhouse on 17 March 2018.

Colour Catalogue: Whites (2018)

The work is in two movements - Fraying and Prolonged. The first presents a sonic object that gradually disintegrates. The second reframes this object and slows it down, so that the process of decay is frozen, and the object appears almost immortal. The work grew out of reflections on 1 Corinthians 15 and Jiang Zhi's Love Letters (2014). In Jiang Zhi's photographs, flowers are on fire, but are not harmed by the flames.

Alto Flute - Isobel Doughty
Oboe - Caitlin Heathcote
Clarinet in B flat 1 - Heather Ryall
Clarinet in B flat 2 - Julia Raga Pascual
Horn in F - Karen Starkman
Trumpet in B flat 1 - Catherine Pollit
Trumpet in B flat 2 - Thomas Thornton
Tenor trombone 1 - Samuel Dye
Tenor trombone 2 - Jake Jones
Harp - Teresa Raff
Piano - Ábel Misha Gille Esbenshade
Violin 1 - Kanon Miyashita, Tilman Fleig, Yuriko Matsuda, Zora Orfgen
Violin 2 - Camille Saïd, Anastasia Egorova Wise, Zoe Hodi
Viola - Michaela Bartošová, Jeremy Tonelli-Sippel
Violoncello - Lucy Neil, Pieter-Jan De Smet
Double bass - Jess Martin, Cole Morrison
Conductor - James Hoyle

Recorded in October 2018.

Reframe (2017)

Grossman Ensemble, conducted by Ben Bolter
Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, December 7, 2018

Simple Fuel (2018) for large ensemble

anti-manifesto.exe (2018)
for megaphone & electronics

performed and recorded by João Carlos Pinto

watch full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBLM5kxtZRk

2018

anti-manifesto.exe (2018) - for megaphone & electronics [full vid below]

Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Philip Venables' numbers 91-95 from Kings Place, London. 17.09.18

numbers 91 - 95 by Philip Venables

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