for Matt

Commissioned by Llandaff Cathedral School Consort, in memory of our dear friend, Matt Barnaville. 

Performed here by the Choir of Royal Holloway, George Nicholls (organ) and Rupert Gough (cond.)on 28 April 2021, at the Chapel of Royal Holloway University of London

open thou our lips

Breathe. A meditation.

Performed by Michael Hearty.

Breathe

A setting of the traditional Yorkshire song, 'A Lyke Wake Dirge', sung to accompany the carrying of a body over a coffin path to its resting place.

Written for and sung by Juice Vocal Ensemble (Anna Snow, Sarah Dacey and Kerry Andrew).

This song was arranged to accompany a short story I wrote, 'The Coffin Path', which you can listen to exclusively as a B-side to my You Are Wolf song, Blue Men: https://youarewolf.bandcamp.com

A Lyke Wake Dirge (SSA)

Gwenan Gibbard, Patrick Rimes a Gwilym Bowen Rhys - Sesiwn fyw i raglen 'Sesiwn Fach', BBC Radio Cymru.

Y Saith Rhyfeddod

This challenging work consists employs several techniques to depict the creation of the world as described in Genesis I. These techniques include overtone singing, whispering and aleatoric clouds of sound. It was selected to represent South Africa at the opening of the BRICS Conference in Moscow in 2015.

Text:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, let there be light, and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good.


Genesis (Hofmeyr) - Cape Town Youth Choir, Leon Starker

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We've covered classic Finger Plucks with long sustains, deep round-robin and dynamic layering for each string. We also recorded Hard Fingernail plucks, Harmonics, Xylophonics, Bass Pedal Buzzes, plus a wide collection of natural Live Glisses in 19 scales and styles by harpist Jennifer Ellis. You'll find lots of custom ambiences, pads and unique FX presets created with the harp source to open up limitless sound design possibilities. You also have access to 3 stereo mic positions (sound board, rear ports & room) to freely mix and route, plus an advanced real-time gliss and arpeggiator sequencers, instant pedal presets for easy glissing and arpeggios, precise tone and presence shaping and a full FX rack for total creative freedom. Elysium Harp contains 12,147 samples and over 30GB of wav content. The library is compressed to 14.7 GB with NI's lossless .ncw audio format for greater resource efficiency. It works in Kontakt or Kontakt Player version 5.5.2 and later.

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Three Miniature Shanties is a string quartet comprising three short movements, each giving a playful reimagining of a famous song from the rich body of sea shanties in the folk repertoire.

Composed by Timothy Johnston, recorded at Cardiff University School of Music, during a composition workshop run by the Carducci Quartet.

© Copyright 2016

Three Miniature Shanties

Three Miniature Shanties - mvt. 3 Fire Down Below (2016)

Recording made from live performances at St. George's, Bristol on 24/04/2018.

Performed by Anne Cartel

Psithurism (Revised)

Drifting, swirling, rising, falling, expanding, contracting, growing, living, dying. A recorded piece for the female voice.

University 

Embers

Recorded by Jerry Zhuo
Our memory is naturally fragmented. Imagination -- a metaphysical glue that puts memory together. Identity -- the memory of memory that lacks the suitable glue. 碎(sui), fragmented, broken, crushed...

Sui 碎

Boundary Oak
Eclogue for Piano

This was a real lockdown labour of love- in this weird world of 2020, I had a go at transcribing birdsong in the countryside around my late Grandparents' old house and turned it into a little piece. 
It was also a family project- I wrote the piece, my dad created the beautiful cover art and my mum is learning to play it herself (this is just a midi version for now). Check out their stuff here:

https://www.instagram.com/philhodkin/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/jeanniepiano/?hl=en

I hope you enjoy.

Boundary Oak

Composer of contemporary classical concert music, soundtracks for film and visual media, based in south Wales. Folk music enthusiast, pianist & cellist, lecturing composition at Cardiff University and the University of Gloucestershire. 

You'll find most of my discography over on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or Bandcamp, but I occasionally post extra bits and pieces here too.

Three Miniature Shanties - mvt. 3 Fire Down Below (2016)

Timothy Johnston

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