'Sister' by Edmund Finnis (2013) Lucy Railton - Cello, Aisha Orazbayeva - Violin

Matutinae

Recorded live using a Ciat Lonbarde Plumbutter.

Chant

Mini_Markeas_Prix2007_5'01

Video

Theia - Garrett Semmelink, violin

Cela n'est pas comme s'ils frappaient à votre porte

I'm Trying to Make a Pretty SoundCloud Waveform

Modular synth improvisation.
Turing Machine Sequencer + M3T4 Microbe + Z3000 + Dixie II + Wogglebug + 132-3 + UvcaII + Dual ADSR Intellijel + Blue Lantern ADSR (x2) + Braids + Elements + Edges + Peaks + Shades + Grids + Ripples + A-115 + A-199 + A-147 + A-138b (x2) + Animodule Tik Tok + Synthrotek Dirt.
Mono recording. No overdubs. No processing.
2 mai 2016.

Mordre l'air

Mordre l'air #13

London Sinfonietta Music Streams: complete recordings from live performances exclusively for listening to online.

Performed by: Helen Keen (flute/alto flute/piccolo), Mark van de Wiel (clarinets), Michael Thompson (horn), Jonathan Morton (violin) and Tim Gill (cello)

This recording features the world premiere of Unfolds, recorded live at Southbank Centre on Saturday 5 November 2011.

Edmund Finnis’ mind was on three non-musical influences while composing this piece: the shimmering grid paintings of Agnes Martin, the near-weightless and transparent architecture of Junya Ishigami, and Italo Calvino’s 1985 lecture on ‘Lightness’ in his Six Memos forthe Next Millennium. To Finnis, both Martin and Ishigami seem to be reaching for something akin to the ideal of ‘thoughtful lightness’that Calvino describes. This is not lightness in the sense of frivolity or superficiality, but rather the ‘subtraction of weight’ that can bring about clarity, flexibility, precision… a letting-in of light. They create work whose subtle, elegant forms invite the perceptionof fine detail. The connections between these influences led Finnis to compose a piece characterised by delicate reiterative musical patterns (sometimes heard in sequence, sometimes superimposed) and an absence of bass or loud sounds. 

'Unfolds' is a London Sinfonietta commission generated through the London Sinfonietta's Writing the Future scheme.Writing the Future is generously supported by The Boltini Trust, The John S Cohen Foundation, Anthony Mackintosh and Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner.

Unfolds, by Edmund Finnis

Respect to Alva Noto. A work in his style. With great modesty.

I'm Trying to Make a Pretty SoundCloud Waveform

C.V. Gates