Really beautiful; I love the slow harmonic evolution and the incredible quiet of it.  If my brother has identified you correctly, we used to be almost-next-door-neighbours in Saffron Walden.  Wonderful to come across you again, especially in so etheral a manner!

Written for and performed by the Miyabi Duo (Hugh Millington and Saki Kato) at Wigmore Hall on 4 June 2021. Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of its 2020/21 RPS Composers Programme.

A work in two movements:
1. bend
2. lullaby for the end/ beginning

in memory of Uncle Charlie

same but different (2021)

Planxty Cage (1994)
Solo Piano
Michael Campbell, piano
www.paulpaccione.com

Planxty Cage

I recorded this in the early 1990's (James Saunders used his equipment), and it was on Chris Villar's website for a long time. I also got to perform it in London at a related book launch some years later.

A Very Short Trumpet Piece    

A Very Short Trumpet Piece by Morton Feldman

Broken Superficiality (2024) for Ensemble and Fixed Media

Taking influence/inspiration from the 50-year continuation and negative effects of Neo-Liberalism that was first trialled in Chile in 1973, and then widely adopted by the UK and US under Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan (and the subsequent leaders), with a lot of other countries following suit. Moving increasingly towards a privatised, individualistic, and ultra-consumerist world with a lack of state-funded/public protected services/amenities, I find that gradually as a society we are losing ourselves, becoming broken and detached from community and instead are pursuing more superficial endeavours and objectives. Taking this into account, I have opted to use effects and timbres that were widely used in the 1970s and 80s as the core of the piece, pairing it with live instruments that sound ‘glitzy’ and techniques to that deviate/distort the instruments' pitch and timbre.

Performed by Ensemble Klang 
Performed at Cloud 9 in Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht as part of Gaudeamus Festival 2024
Recorded by Gaudeamus Festival
Mixed by Peter Bell

Image - 'Metropolis' by George Grosz (1917)


Broken Superficiality (2024)

PASSAGE. Commisioned by INA grm as part of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action.
Premiered 10.5.2024 at INA grm/ AKOUSMA concert series @maisondelaradioetdelamusique.fr Studio 104. Paris.

Passage (excerpt)

beautiful performance by the wonderful pianist Richard Casey recorded by Steve Plews (prima-facie)

nagahama fragments (2012) 

(twenty fragments for piano)

a piano fragment written each day during a summer spent in Hiroshima, Japan. August 6th is the day in 1945 when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima at 8:15am. “Little Boy” is the name given to the bomb by the servicemen aboard the Enola Gay.

Aug. 1st	0’:00”	mangetsu (full moon)
Aug 2nd	1’:08”
Aug 3rd	3’:45”
Aug 4th	5’:04”
Aug 5th	6’:11”
Aug 6th 	6’:48”	little boy
Aug 7th	8’:38”
Aug 8th	9’:03”
Aug 14th	10’:30”
Aug 15th	11’:56”
Aug 17th	12’:18”
Aug 18th	13’:17”
Aug 19th	13’:44”	umi (seto nai kai) – the inland sea
Aug 20th	14’:54”
Aug 21st	15’:00”
Aug 22nd 15’:20”
Aug 23rd 16’:21”
Aug 24th	16’:56”
Aug 25th	17’:58”
Aug 26th	18’24”

nagahama fragments

Wanted to write a piece where I musically captured four people at the same time :-))))))
Thank you for listening :-))))))))))))))))))))))))))

If you want to see the score, go here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBqVKxHjoA

For Kate, Iain, Miles and Bea

composed by Martin Arnold (2025)
performed by:
Phillip Bush: piano
Greg Stuart: percussion

Bijou Doubles

A piece to celebrate the joint birthdays of a pair of fabulous friends and fabulouser composers: Jobina Tinnemans & Christopher Fox

SCORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYwp1EjwPrA

Happy Birthdays Jobina and Christopher!

...alien motions on fire with coriolis demeanor"

Quatuor Bozzini, Montreal 2014

Score: https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/i-saw-these-gaps-explanation-rolling-wheels-contrary-within-themselves-alien-motions-fire

I Saw These Gaps Of Explanation Rolling Like Wheels Contrary Within Themselves...

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