Premiered in livestream event on Tuesday 16th March 2021 - full concert available here: https://youtu.be/Sw3G2HpQ9fs

Slushball Earth
For solo clarinet & electronics

Written for Johanna Leung, 
premiered as part of the Garden of Forking Paths - a research project created by Dr Scott McLaughlin of the University of Leeds:
https://forkingpaths.leeds.ac.uk/

Featuring the voice of Katherine Turner, PhD ocean & climate scientist at the University of Liverpool (Twitter: @keturner8) 

Composed and produced by Tywi John Hywel Roberts 

This piece was also a follow up to work done for the Royal Northern College of Music's PRiSM project: Changing Music in a Changing Climate:
https://www.rncm.ac.uk/research/research-centres-rncm/prism/prism-collaborations/changing-music-in-a-changing-climate

Clarinet parts performed by Johanna Leung

Guitar, synthesiser, drum programming, additional electronics & processing by Tywi J H Roberts

Voice recordings used with permission

Copyright Tywi Roberts, all rights reserved.
Programme Notes

This piece was written for clarinettist Johanna Leung, as part of Dr. Scott McLaughlin's Garden of Forking Paths project, and completed in January 2021. This project focusses on indeterminacy in the use of clarinet multiphonics in composition. 
  
It was premiered in the Garden of Forking Paths concert on March 16th, 2021. 

The piece also follows on from the RNCM's Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM) group project Changing Music in a Changing Climate. This project brought together RNCM composers with PhD climate scientists from other universities to create works responding to the topic of climate change. 

This work has led me to begin a series of compositions which each use the voice of a different climate scientist talking about their field as the initial prompt for the musical material. This is the second piece in that series. It features the voice of Katherine Turner - a PhD ocean and climate scientist at the University of Liverpool.

Katherine was asked a short series of questions on her work, and her thoughts on the broader situation with regards to the planet's changing climate. The piece uses excerpts of her recorded responses as the sources of musical phrases, rhythms and motifs.

Slushball Earth

Video version available here: https://youtu.be/U8udmtVJ9Kw

Kairos and Chronos (Sections I, II and V)

Written for and performed by the Nexus Duo
https://www.nexusstringduo.co.uk

Featuring the voice of Jordan Hall, in conversation with Rebel Wisdom.

Composed and produced by Tywi John Hywel Roberts, premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music's RNCM PLAY Festival on Saturday 20th March 2021
https://www.rncm.ac.uk/festivals/rncm-play-festival/
#RNCMPLAY

The Nexus Duo are:
Andrew Birse - Violin
Chloe Randall - Cello

Guitar, synthesiser, drum programming, additional electronics & processing by Tywi J H Roberts

“This is the premiere of three movements from an extended work for string duo and electronics, featuring novel use of technology and improvisation in dialogue with one other. Arranged remotely and collaboratively during COVID lockdown; composed around the voice of futurist thinker Jordan Hall.

Using a combination of electroacoustic techniques including recordings of the duo improvising in a workshop situation plus found sounds, the piece was constructed around a section of dialogue recorded by the online media channel Rebel Wisdom in conversation with Jordan Hall, and members of their online community.”  Tywi Roberts 

Dialogue recording taken from Unpacking the Meta-Crisis, Q&A with Jordan Hall, published to YouTube on April 2nd 2020, last accessed: 
https://youtu.be/cmQ-TRj1jF0 - on December 11th 2020 (used with permission).

Copyright Tywi Roberts, all rights reserved.

Kairos and Chronos (short version) - Performed by the Nexus Duo

[Video version: https://youtu.be/JqfXDkXfHSk]

UnThing

UNHEARD HYBRID ONLINE version

Composed and produced by Tywi John Hywel Roberts, premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music's RNCM PLAY Festival on Saturday 20th March 2021
www.rncm.ac.uk/festivals/rncm-play-festival/
#RNCMPLAY

UNHEARD HYBRID ONLINE was the headline event of #RNCMPLAY​ 2021 - the first festival of its kind organised by the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. 
Watch the full concert here:
https://youtu.be/0Eb_bA6qx04

Programme Notes

Alysia Hanshaw - soprano
Iona Kaye - soprano
Johanna Leung - clarinet
Poppy Philligreen - alto saxophone
Sam Lightwing - alto saxophone
Fraser Waddell - trombone
Yong Ong - piano
Fangbin Xia - piano
Mark Reid - acoustic guitar
Nathan Fenwick - violin
Malcolm Goodare - cello
João Tomás Pocinho - drums &amp; percussion
Billy Lancaster - electric guitar and electronics
Charlie Harris - percussion and electronics
Simon Knighton - electronics
Manoli Moriaty - electronics
Rose Bartels - additional artwork & visuals

Tywi Roberts - video editing

"This is a new flowering from the first piece ever performed by the UnHeard Hybrid Orchestra in February 2020. The original work had no full score as such, but merely some simple notation showing the main rising and falling motif in various instrumental combinations.
Using this as a prompt, we verbally arranged it into a short, semi-improvised work; allowing plenty of space for the four electronic performers to respond with filtered and processed echoes of the instrumental players.

This expanded, completely rewritten version was put together in the same collaborative, dialogical spirit; with no less than five electronic musicians exploring sonic possibilities and alternative interpretations of every sound recorded by the instrumentalists.

During the final two weeks of the project, visual artist Rose Bartels entered to collaborate on this piece. Her contributions and visual style finally ended up becoming the heart of the work, and were yet another source of delightful creativity shared across multiple individuals in this UnHeard Hybrid event." Tywi Roberts

Copyright Tywi Roberts, all rights reserved.

UnThing - Performed by UnHeard Hybrid Online

[Video version: https://youtu.be/mECgRTZEK7A]

Rain Spectacle

Written for and executed by UNHEARD HYBRID ONLINE

Composed and produced by Tywi John Hywel Roberts, premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music's RNCM PLAY Festival on Saturday 20th March 2021
www.rncm.ac.uk/festivals/rncm-play-festival/

UNHEARD HYBRID ONLINE was the headline event of #RNCMPLAY​ 2021 - the first festival of its kind organised by the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.
Watch the full concert here:
youtu.be/0Eb_bA6qx04

Programme Notes

  Alysia Hanshaw - soprano
  Iona Kaye - soprano
  Johanna Leung - clarinet
  Poppy Philligreen - alto saxophone
  Sam Lightwing - alto saxophone
  Rebecca Stowe - trumpet
  Owen Davies - piano
  Yong Ong - piano
  Fangbin Xia - piano
  Mark Reid - acoustic guitar
  Nathan Fenwick - violin
  Malcolm Goodare - cello
  Pablo Sonnaillon - double bass
  Billy Lancaster - electric guitar and electronics
  Manoli Moriaty - electronics

  Tywi Roberts - video editing

"The entirety of this piece evolved from the piano pedals, which I first played after reaching the RNCM on one of the rainiest days in recent memory. Originally intended as a prompt for the UnHeard Hybrid event in Lab Week 2020, these ideas instead remained dormant until this project, when they were worked into the prompt score for the players. This only represented 50% (or less) of the full work, since the intention was to record the instrumentalists playing this material and then expose the recordings to a second round of creativity at the hands of the electronic musicians. Finally: I collated all the sounds provided by the players, Billy, Manoli and myself, and assembled them into what is heard here." Tywi Roberts

Copyright Tywi Roberts, all rights reserved.

Rain Spectacle - Performed by UnHeard Hybrid Online

Rough mix for Guru contest. I rushed it a bit in the end... sorry about the dodgy e.q.ing...

Daedelus - Tiptoes (Tywi_J Remix)

Pilipinas
(for chamber ensemble)

Composed by Tywi John Hywel Roberts

Performed by Psappha as part of New Music Manchester in the Royal Northern College of Music on Friday 1st November 2019.

All pieces in the concert were written in response to winning poems from the Mother Tongue Other Tongue project: https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/mothertongueothertongue/

Pilipinas is a response to a poem of the same name written in Tagalog by the young Marc Jardin from All Hallows Catholic College. I liked the way his poem touched on an innocent love of one’s country, its natural beauty and spirit, while also not shying away from the darker aspects of its history, and hoped that my piece could capture those contrasts.

See below for a full transcription of the text, with an English translation. 

Big thanks to Psappha, our conductor Omer Schteinhart, and to the RNCM for bringing this project about. :)
I was very happy to have my pieces performed alongside new works by Zakiya Leeming, Athanasia Kontou and Nate Chivers.

Copyright Tywi Roberts, all rights reserved.

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Pilipinas
Marc Jardin, All Hallows Catholic College

Kilang malayo at malawak
Na isang parasio
Merong asul at outing dagat
Magagandang perlas da gadat

Ako ay isnag Pilipino sa dugo at espiritu
Ipinagmamalaki ko ang aking pinanggalingan
Sa digmaan at kapayapaan
Sa lahat ng nakipaglaban sa digmaan

Pinagpala sa likas na yaman
Sa magagandang kultura
Makakatuklas ng magagangang bagay

Laht ng magagangang ala-ala
Sa lahat ng nakalipas?
Sa lahat ng nakipaglabam sa digmaan
Para makamtang kapayapaan

Lahat ay nag-kaisa
Para da kapayapaan at kalahi mikan
Upang makamit ang tama. Mag tiwala da sarili

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Philippines
(Rough English translation)

Known far and wide
As an Island of Paradise.
Possessing beige and white beaches,
Wonderful coral along the crystal seas.

I am Filipino in blood and spirit,
Proud of my humble roots,
In war and peace,
To all who fought in wars, I salute.

Blessed with natural resources
Many things you need to see
Historical sights, unique culture
Discover its inner beauty.

All memories from the past,
Blood-shed wars and brave
Heroes fought
Thinking, when would it last?
Seeking the freedom from
Which we were caught.

Unlike the wars, we must
Unite
For us to make things right
Believing in the impossible,
That’s what makes our country remarkable.

Pilipinas - Performed Live by Psappha for Mother Tongue/Other Tongue

Watch the full performance here: https://youtu.be/Fv6K8NnejOM

'Zygote' (composed by Tywi John Hywel Roberts) 

Piano:
Aaron Breeze, Owen Davies, Fangbin Xia

Celeste & Oboe:
Rory Craig

Violin:   
Blair Taylor

Clarinet:
Johanna Leung

Trumpet:
Rebecca Stowe

Percussion:
Fraz Ireland, Daniel Nolan

Electronics:
Nate Chivers, Bofan Ma, Tywi Roberts, Heléna Walsh

Conductor:
Omer Shteinhart 

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Photography in the UnHeard logo: 'Urban Decay 2/50' by Jade French, Urban Incidental Art (Instagram: @urbanincidental_art)

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UNHEARD is the Royal Northern College of Music's New Music Society. We were very proud to present here our first official public concert: THE UNHEARD HYBRID ORCHESTRA.

Conceived as a means of integrating live acoustic players with live electronics players; with the latter generating their material by recording the former, the ensemble is a new endeavour: re-imagining the shape of the 
orchestra for the technological present. 

We performed six pieces in this concert, consisting of a mixture of new & collaborative works by RNCM composers, as well as our take on certain classical pieces.

Lab Week at the RNCM is a yearly opportunity for students to be granted full access to rehearsal spaces and concert venues, to engage in an intensive week of creativity and finally present the results in a public concert.
This Lab Week project brought together some of the RNCM's finest acoustic players with electronic practitioners, to create a unique blend of the historical with cutting-edge musical techniques.

Acoustic instruments are filtered through electronics to create the uncanny, the delicate, the chaotic, and the emergent. Players are grouped together under the section leadership of multiple electronic musicians, all united 
under the guidance of a single conductor. 

Music, audio and video content copyright Tywi Roberts/UnHeard, 2020
All rights reserved.

Zygote - UnHeard Hybrid Orchestra, Live at RNCM Lab Week 13-02-2020

Watch the full performance here: https://youtu.be/jPhcErQ3lYo

'BWV 262, Alle Menschen müssen sterben' (composed by J. S. Bach, arrangement by Nate Chivers) 

Piano:
Aaron Breeze, Owen Davies, Fangbin Xia

Celeste & Oboe:
Rory Craig

Violin:   
Blair Taylor

Clarinet:
Johanna Leung

Trumpet:
Rebecca Stowe

Percussion:
Fraz Ireland, Daniel Nolan

Electronics:
Nate Chivers, Bofan Ma, Tywi Roberts, Heléna Walsh

Conductor:
Omer Shteinhart 

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Photography in the UnHeard logo: 'Urban Decay 2/50' by Jade French, Urban Incidental Art (Instagram: @urbanincidental_art)

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UNHEARD is the Royal Northern College of Music's New Music Society. We were very proud to present here our first official public concert: THE UNHEARD HYBRID ORCHESTRA.

Conceived as a means of integrating live acoustic players with live electronics players; with the latter generating their material by recording the former, the ensemble is a new endeavour: re-imagining the shape of the 
orchestra for the technological present. 

We performed six pieces in this concert, consisting of a mixture of new & collaborative works by RNCM composers, as well as our take on certain classical pieces.

Lab Week at the RNCM is a yearly opportunity for students to be granted full access to rehearsal spaces and concert venues, to engage in an intensive week of creativity and finally present the results in a public concert.
This Lab Week project brought together some of the RNCM's finest acoustic players with electronic practitioners, to create a unique blend of the historical with cutting-edge musical techniques.

Acoustic instruments are filtered through electronics to create the uncanny, the delicate, the chaotic, and the emergent. Players are grouped together under the section leadership of multiple electronic musicians, all united 
under the guidance of a single conductor. 

Audio and video content copyright Tywi Roberts/UnHeard, 2020
All rights reserved.

BWV 262, Alle Menschen müssen sterben - UnHeard Hybrid Orchestra, RNCM Lab Week 13-02-2020

Watch the full performance here: https://youtu.be/Qt6O7ED4ANU

'UnThing' (composed by Tywi John Hywel Roberts, arrangement by the UHO) 

Piano:
Aaron Breeze, Owen Davies, Fangbin Xia

Celeste & Oboe:
Rory Craig

Violin:   
Blair Taylor

Clarinet:
Johanna Leung

Trumpet:
Rebecca Stowe

Percussion:
Fraz Ireland, Daniel Nolan

Electronics:
Nate Chivers, Bofan Ma, Tywi Roberts, Heléna Walsh

Conductor:
Omer Shteinhart 

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Photography in the UnHeard logo: 'Urban Decay 2/50' by Jade French, Urban Incidental Art (Instagram: @urbanincidental_art)

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UNHEARD is the Royal Northern College of Music's New Music Society. We were very proud to present here our first official public concert: THE UNHEARD HYBRID ORCHESTRA.

Conceived as a means of integrating live acoustic players with live electronics players; with the latter generating their material by recording the former, the ensemble is a new endeavour: re-imagining the shape of the 
orchestra for the technological present. 

We performed six pieces in this concert, consisting of a mixture of new & collaborative works by RNCM composers, as well as our take on certain classical pieces.

Lab Week at the RNCM is a yearly opportunity for students to be granted full access to rehearsal spaces and concert venues, to engage in an intensive week of creativity and finally present the results in a public concert.
This Lab Week project brought together some of the RNCM's finest acoustic players with electronic practitioners, to create a unique blend of the historical with cutting-edge musical techniques.

Acoustic instruments are filtered through electronics to create the uncanny, the delicate, the chaotic, and the emergent. Players are grouped together under the section leadership of multiple electronic musicians, all united 
under the guidance of a single conductor. 

Music, audio and video content copyright Tywi Roberts/UnHeard, 2020
All rights reserved.

UnThing - UnHeard Hybrid Orchestra, Live at RNCM Lab Week 13-02-2020

Noughts and Constellations

For Beatport Remix competition 2013.

Thanks to Tomcraft - had a lot of fun making this.

You can hear the kickin' original here:
https://soundcloud.com/tomcraft/tomcraft-like-a-roller

Tomcraft - Like a Roller (ZigZag Idiot Remix)

First crack at Indaba Music's Sweatson Klank remix competition.



Sweatson Klank - I Really Shouldn't Be Here (ZigZag Idiot Remix 1.0)

Version with visuals available here: https://youtu.be/xC0PmY0qUs0

Planetary Boundaries – Human Needs

Composed and produced by Tywi John Hywel Roberts for the Royal Northern College of Music's PRiSM project: Changing Music in a Changing Climate: 
https://www.rncm.ac.uk/research/research-centres-rncm/prism/prism-collaborations/changing-music-in-a-changing-climate

Premiered in livestream event on Thursday 15th October 2020 - full concert available here: https://youtu.be/OqTmoHtO4fs

Clarinet parts performed by Johanna Leung

Guitar, synthesiser, drum programming, additional electronics & processing by Tywi J H Roberts

Voice recordings used with permission, sourced from Professor Julia Steinberger lecture “What Wellbeing Can Teach Us About Sustainability”, delivered to PRiSM CMCC project group on Wednesday 10th June 2020

Clarinet multiphonics collaboration associated with Dr Scott McLaughlin’s Garden of Forking Paths project, University of Leeds: https://forkingpaths.leeds.ac.uk/

Copyright Tywi Roberts, all rights reserved.

Planetary Boundaries - Human Needs

Debut album 'ZigZag Idiot'... http://tywi-j.bandcamp.com/album/zigzag-idiot

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