Multitrack hurdy gurdy music. This one also with reed organ.
Is this a transitory appearance of order emerging from primordial chaos?...or the tuning up of the infinite orchestra?...the sound of the seething void?...the calling of countless entities from the abyss?...or just a lot of noise made on hurdy gurdies?

Chronophage

The Second Law.
Recorded with hurdy gurdies, reed organ, hammer dulcimer, psaltery, percussion. This is not the final mix nor the full track.

The Second Law (edit)

Recorded a few years ago (2007) and featured on Cold Spring's John Barleycorn Reborn. Hurdy gurdies, citterns, organ.

Tierceron

This is the begining of something that was recorded some years ago at Brancepeth Castle and mostly created spontaneously with the wonderful Jane Harbour (voice and violin). Also with hurdy gurdies (but only coming in after this sample)and psalteries.

Lullaby (edit)

A simple repeating pattern for two hurdy gurdies with seven variations (mostly two part, as a round) of differing complexity played over the top; often used in group hurdy gurdy workshops. Here are the first three parts and the last where bagpipes (played by Katy Marchant) and other instruments join.

Exercise Two (parts 1, 2, 3 & 7)

A short piece with guitars, hurdy gurdy and recorder (played by Katy Marchant). Thanks to Lee Holland for musical ideas.

Utopia Regained (fragment)

Shawms (played by Katy Marchant), hurdy gurdies, reed organ, bass guitar.

Caladrius (excerpt)

hurdy gurdies, reed organ, voice (Katy Marchant)

Tethys (excerpt)

Here is a hurdy gurdy piece based around the division of two turns of the wheel into three units, each sometimes subdivided into three or four (for the trompette). I finished the recent online workshop for Zona da Zanfona with these patterns but didn't have much time for details. I can write this out and add descriptions if anyone is interested. It's also a demonstration of creating a musically satisfying composition based on simple exercises; and it contrasts the two instruments, made by Chris Eaton and Sam Palmer.
(Online hurdy gurdy lessons are now available)

Steve Tyler hurdy gurdy

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