An Arrangement of a old Hezekiah Walker tune " I'll Fly away". This Song was Produced and Arranged By Cory Henry. Jam Good Time. Hope you Enjoy

Fly Away 2013

To Hao Hao & Xing Hui...

The title Sacred Voices,  was suggested by the use of and manipulation of sound materials which are considered to symbolise religion, culture, or species. The piece was composed mainly from material that had been recorded during a research trip to China in May, 2013. Much of the material was derived from a rare opportunity to record Giant Pandas in their enclosures at the Dujangyan Panda Reintroduction Centre, alongside a recording made in Xi’an of monks singing in a Buddhist Temple and carts being driven up hutongs in Beijing. These sounds (voices) are explored in a manner straddling on the very edge of real and unreal sound worlds and act as expressions or traces of places or moments in time.  

Sacred voices attempts to convey the idea of a series of momentary structures and forms experienced in space and time.  Throughout the work, sounds are presented as ‘moments’ in time and, space- the source of which is left up to the listener to imagine.  These moments are then expanded and explored throughout the piece- with each idea being mined for potential developments. The idea for this derived from my fascination with the manipulation of  field recordings, but also with sound design and spatialisation, both within the concert hall, and in a piece itself.

Along with 我們的歌 (Our Song), this work forms a collection of acousmatic works exploring sounds recorded in China in May, 2013 as part of the SCEN Music Project(www.scenmusic.info). In contrast to 我們的歌 (Our Song), where the sounds presented clearly provided a sense of place and culture, I wanted to carry out a manipulation of some of the same sound material, but without forcing any expectation of a particular place or culture onto the listener. In this piece, the manipulation of source material through both space and time was central to my train of thought. 

Sacred Voices was composed from December, 2013 to January, 2014 in the studios of De Montfort University (Leicester, England, UK). The work was commissioned by Reinhard Fuchs and Forum Liverpool with support from Scotland China Education Network, University of Aberdeen Confucius Institute and De Montfort University Confucius Institute. It was a finalist in the Concours Destellos 2014 competition.  Special thanks to John Young.

Sacred Voices (2014)- Finalist Destellos 2014

march 6th 2014

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Movement I of Ridge, for solo soprano and amplified piano

On mountains in winter, spindrift is snow that is caught by a strong wind and blown off the hill in something resembling a faint cloud. It is a very beautiful thing in good weather but winter mountaineering can be extremely dangerous for the unprepared when the weather closes in. What was previously an extremely beautiful thing transforms into something extremely menacing. This piece is something of an ode to winter mountaineering. It attempts to capture both the beauty of a clear day in the mountains and the chill of the cold and the danger.


Soprano: Jillian Bain Christie
Piano: Andrew Fowler

Recorded at King's College Chapel, Aberdeen University on 23/3/16 as part of the Carlaw/Ogston composition award finals with the Spectrum ensemble.

Spindrift

ELECTRICITY (otamatone recitative)

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Less is More was written in the spring of 2017 for the Passepartout Duo for the inaugural Eighth Blackbird Creative Laboratory, with commissioning support from Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting.

With this work, I wanted to engage in perhaps two artistic “guilty” pleasures of mine: pulse and light, and thus I also composed a lighting part for the piece which I aimed to have equal importance to that of the live performers. I wanted to observe what would happen musically, visually, and overall aesthetically if I lay my two “guilty” pleasures out in the open, with minimal tactile material yet perhaps maximal capacity for interaction and synergy. I therefore hope that through exploring such a minimal yet boundless interaction, I am able to truly uncover what is less and what is more.

Less Is More

original and rough sketch of minimalist composition. Now making it into a 30 minute minimalist piece for composition folio as part of my degree.

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Contemporary composer from Scotland, currently undertaking PhD research. Influences range from minimalism to modernism to acousmatic music to progressive rock with plenty in between.

Spindrift

Simon Hellewell

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