Only really just properly listened to this track - I really really love it!! :-)

Wow..Stef, you're great.. parts of this remind me of Robert Wyatt, (and that's a real compliment)...

Radio 3 feature about the Renaissance Singers' collaboration with Stef Conner as part of the Adopt a Composer scheme, broadcast on Friday 17th January 2014.

Radio 3 Adopt a Composer Feature

'It was not death' for soprano and marimba.

Performed by Ana Beard Fernández (voice) and Zoë Craven (marimba) at the National Centre for Early Music, York, 1 May 2015.

It was not death

Music and words by Stef Conner
Stef Conner – piano/voice;
Jon Hughes – Production and electronics
Simon Roth – drums;
Vanessa McWilliam – bass

The Turmoil and the Tenderness

Alto recorder and live electronics.

Studio recording by Carmen Troncoso and Desmond Clarke.

This piece comprises two of the seven movements of RECORDARI.

oiseaux métamorphique (2017)

Composed in response to a commission by my fellow composer, Veronika Krausas (2008), this is an 'extreme arrangement' of John William's Raiders March (From Raiders of the Lost Ark) for automatic Player Piano. 

The piece was first written on paper, then transferred to a MIDI file, then sent to a 'piano roll perforator' who made the piano roll for player piano. The particular player piano recorded here was unable to perform dynamics or pedal markings: "Note on/off only".

Raiders March  (comp. J. Williams, arr. Torjussen-for player piano)

'The winged sun loses its feathers on the horizon.'

Based on a line from Egyptian-French surrealist poet Joyce Mansour’s ‘Blue like a Desert’, feathering light creates an image of a golden sun - a warm but imposing presence - slowly withering as it sets below the horizon. Each of the ten notes used represents a feather, getting caught and swept up in the wind of the music, until the piece culminates into a warm concoction of pitchless sounds, fading slowly into darkness. This coalescence of sound-colour creates - in the form of sound - the image that this poem’s line depicts.

The Turmoil and the Tenderness

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