Commissioned by London Contemporary Music Festival, premiered by Otto Willberg on 4th July, 2013 in Peckham Multistorey Car Park.

GLITCH is part of a cycle for double bass and portable music player, exploring the sound of radio interference and old analogue systems. In this movement, all the source material is taken from the double bass, processed to resemble the sounds of an analogue radio flitting through stations, but magnified significantly. The two instruments are simultaneously pushed to their physical limits, with the increasing impression that one might break down before the piece ends.

GLITCH

Thursday is a response to FLECK, FLOB, FLOP, a new large-scale work by Joe Snape for chamber ensemble, electronics and live-typed text projection, to be taken on a UK and EU tour in May-June 2015 by ACM.

This release is part of a very limited, hand crafted edition, which also features works by Michael Cutting and Joe Snape and will be released on Manchester's very own ONO, an experimental label nurtured by the ever so devoted Michael Holland.



Thursday [FLECK EP]

SUNDAY is a solo set for 11 recycled mobile telephone vibration motors in surround sound, objects and violin, exploring the act of process as performance.

Sunday (for 11 recycled telephone vibration motors, objects and violin)

WE ARE FOR A WHILE is a 50 minute work for 4 performers, live electronics and lights, created as part of an 18 month residency with the London based experimental music group Apartment House. 

Using as its starting point the concept and process of ‘recycling', much of the performers’ actions consist of using, dismantling, reconstructing and reusing found objects, broken instruments and lo-fi technology, accumulated from recycling centers, derelict buildings, skips, beaches, alleyways and other strange places over the course of one year. Expanding on the theme, pre-existing music from nearly 20 composers, sound artists and performers especially donated for this project will be ‘recycled’ and re-contextualised within this new work, all bound together by live lighting created with Michael Cutting and Sarah Hill.

The music in this excerpt was created mostly by using pure magnetic waves extracted from a few recycled walkmen and cassette players.

WE ARE FOR A WHILE [Apartment House UK tour] - excerpt

WE ARE FOR A WHILE is a 50 minute work for 4 performers, live electronics and lights, created as part of an 18 month residency with the London based experimental music group Apartment House. 

Trailer - https://vimeo.com/169235114

This excerpt is for an automated sculpture, made up or run by a number of instruments and old devices that were previously used within the work (e.g. battery powered recycled motors, dismantled cassette player reels among others).

WE ARE FOR A WHILE (outro)

WE ARE FOR A WHILE is a 50 minute work for 4 performers, live lighting and electronics, created for and first toured with the London based experimental music group Apartment House.

Trailer - vimeo.com/169235114

WE ARE FOR A WHILE (intro)

Premiered by Carla Fernandez Boix on the 9th of June, 2012 in the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK 

Music for no time (for solo piano)

Music for recycled slimming belt motors and live lighting.

Trailer - vimeo.com/267372780

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