for 8 flutes, 3 oboes, 8 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 2 saxes, 4 horns, 6 trumpets, 6 trombones, 4 tubas, 5 percussion, piano, harp, strings, mezzo soprano and speaking voice.
Performed by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra on 16 June 2023, conducted by Daniele Rosina.

For John Baldessari and/or Gary Lineker

In Meandering Song No.3 a meandering melodic line travels around the ensemble. The melody moves in and out of instrumental ranges facilitating changes to instrumentation as the melody passes through the playing capabilities of the different instrumentalists. Musicians are encouraged to listen and follow the line as it travels around the ensemble so that they are able to join it when it re-enters their instrumental range. From the 4th repetitions new elements are introduced to develop the texture including sung text taken from my poorly attempted transcriptions of local council meetings in Stevenage Cambridgeshire, interviews with local people from Stevenage and old Pathé films about Stevenage.

Meandering Song No.3

Performed by BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

EATING THE SUN

weav (bass flute, bass clarinet and piano)
composed by James Layton (2024)
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Cikada Trio: 
Kenneth Karlsson (piano)
Anne Karine Hauge (bass flute)
Rolf Borch (bass clarinet)

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artwork: Anni Albers

weav [2024]

SCORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kvS-m_pzVs

For Samuel Pradalie

Composed for a pianist friend to play whilst she is pregnant :-)))))))))

SCORE VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUkcWhG_k-0

Womb Music

Commissioned and performed by Terra Invisus, released on their 2024 album "Visions".

Alex Lyon, bass clarinet; Rebecca Burden, cello; Milda Vitartaitė, piano. 

Trio: after an étude by Hélène de Montegeroult, composer (2023)

Recollection explores memory, and how music can act as a portal to connect us with our past, transporting us back to specific places, or pivotal moments in our past.

Recollection

This piece comes from the final movement of my larger string quartet An Ontological Study of the Paradigms in Advertising Media within Capitalist Societies for string quartet

The composition presents a strange ritual alternating very quiet music with lyrics scribbled down from half remembered adverts and things heard on the radio. 

The piece ends by dissolving into the either and a held chord slowly undulates. 

An Ending for string quartet

And I Wondered Why .... is a series of pieces for piano and electronics. 

I wanted this composition to feel like a series of strange windows in bizarre unexplained musical happenings. The electronic interludes were intended to have a retro quality. 

The piano pieces maintain consonant harmonies and occasionally naive melodies. 

And I wondered Why....Musisings for Piano and Electronics

'Y Tŷ Unnos 5' by J.P.A. Falzone, played by Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin) and J.P.A. Falzone (piano & vibraphone), from the double CD 'Chordioid', featuring one disc each of compositions by the two performers.

J.P.A. Falzone 'Y Tŷ Unnos 5'

Samuel Pradalie is a composer whose musical output consists of naïve, witty pieces, focusing on an aesthetic of Brechtian Alienation and the uncanny. Drawing heavily from the surrealist tradition, particularly the anti-virtuosic approach of Erik Satie his aesthetic language consists of awkward interruptions, repetitious materials, surreal thematic dialogues, fragrantly sentimental harmonies and kitschy melodies as well as experimenting with endurance. His music draws also draws on a number of extra musical influences including Montage techniques from Soviet Cinema, and DIY aesthetics. Samuel has worked with a number of ensembles and organisations including the Amatis Trio, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Lietzeorchester Berlin, Tête á Tête opera Festival and Borough New Music and has been performed at such diverse venues as the Rundfunk Hall Berlin, Blackheath Halls London, West Road Theatre Cambridge, St Georges Bristol.

And I wondered Why....Musisings for Piano and Electronics

Samuel Pradalie

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