Commissioned by the Aurora Orchestra to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of its relationship with the BBC Young Composer Competition. This commission was generously supported by the RVW Trust.

Performed by members of the Aurora Orchestra on December 12, 2020 in Kings Place, Hall One. 

Trombone - Matthew Gee
Violin 1 - Alexandra Wood
Violin 2 - Jamie Campbell
Viola - Ruth Gibson
Cello - Sébastien van Kuijk

Points of Intersection (2020) - excerpt

Performed at the Kalv Festival, Kalv, Sweden, August 12, 2021 by Ensemble Mosaik

Event Horizon (2021), for clarinet, viola, cello, piano, and percussion

Inspired by the number of years it takes for each planet in our solar system to orbit around the sun, I transferred each planets’ approximate orbit into a material framework that served as the foundation of piece – chords that invert at different rates according to which planet the chord corresponds to, creating an iso-rhythmic effect. The framework then became the impetus to create additional textural layers, giving the piece small changing and alternating gestures.

Performed by The Spaceship Ensemble (NL)

Conductor: Hardy Li
Piano: Ivan Pavlov
Percussion: João Pedro Borralho
Celesta: Leo Lehtinen
Harp: Liucilè Vilimaitė/Maria Palma
Harpsichord: Christina Kwon
Accordion: Kaat Vanhaverbeke
Guitar: Antonio Peršak

Recorded by Eric Moser and Li Moonyoung

Within an Orbit (2019)

Performed at the Festival of Laurence Crane: A Tribute Concert on Monday 18th October 2021.

The title is an accidental pun on Laurence’s Bobby J for electric guitar. I was chatting with Patrick about putting the piece together and told him we might both have to muster up our best Bobby D impressions (aka Bob Dylan).

Lara Agar (violin, harmonica)
Christian Drew (guitar, harmonica)
Harry Harrison (percussion, harmonica)
Patrick Hegarty (guitar, harmonica)
Darius Paymai (harmonium, harmonica)

Bobby D

Ham is a space-face spaced out homage to the first great ape in Space, Ham, named after the Holloman Aeromedical Laboratory, who safely returned from Space in January 1961.

"he had a smile on his face -- 
but," said the experts,
"that's a sign of great distress,
that's a sign of great distress"

Dedicated to Laurence Crane on his Birthday. 

Live Recording at St Giles Cripplegate 18/10/21

Performers: 
Ben Smith - Piano 
Patrick Hegarty - Sampler
Matt Geer - Organ
Christian Drew - Guitar 
Darius Paymai - E. guitar

(Un) universo (nace). Visualiza, escucha y va creciendo. (Este) universo (seres sintientes) van mutando su capacidad para ver, oír y percibir información en el tiempo. Y (ese) universo total, entero y sensible se encuentra absorbiendo la vida que tiene por delante, los lados, por arriba y por abajo. Y va mutando, va observando, va entendiendo y sigue escuchando.

Ya no es (un) universo sino (cosmos) de elementos, recuerdos, registros y encuentros nuevos. De paisajes visuales y sonoros; un campus infinito de belleza y horrores que transpora en (elle) como maleta, recorre y explora lo desconocido para seguir (creciendo).

Sonidos y paisajes sonoros de Mar del Plata, grabaciones de zorzales colorados y benteveos en Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fotografía: Damián Alférez 
Edición: María Emilia Pérez

#paisajesonoro #deeplistening #womeninsounds #fieldrecordist #fieldrecording #soundart #contemporaryarts #soundscape #environment #mardelplata #buenosaires #argentina #ambient

(Un) universo (nace)/ Paisaje sonoro de Buenos Aires y Mar del Plata.

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8​ Frecvency Modulator

A composition inspired by a hike through the beautiful Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park. 

Jennifer Symons: clarinet
Olivia Kieffer: vibraphone
Greg Secor: crotales, glockenspiel

Field recording courtesy of Gordon Hempton, The Sound Tracker®. Excerpted from his Hoh Rainforest recording One Square Inch of Silence.

For sheet music, visit www.billryanmusic.com
For more information about the forest soundscape, visit www.soundtracker.com

Secret Forest

Sylvia Lim is a composer based in the UK. Her works are intimate, exploring a small amount of material in depth. She is interested in the materiality of sound, notions of close listening, perception, rawness and instability.