Taking ‘Frühlingstraum’ from Schubert’s Winterreise as its starting point, Icebloom is a miniature that attempts to address some of the relationships detailed in the song’s text. Wilhelm Müller’s poem presents a vignette of absence, imagination and memory, and it is the relationship between absence and presence that is glanced at in Icebloom’s brief moments: liminal sounds […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2012, cello, chamber, piano, violin
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Sunday, 12 September 2010
I will be performing/appearing/being at A Curious Night at the Nip & Tipple in Whalley Range the evening of Monday 13th September. Put together by composer Nina Whiteman and performance artist Michael Mayhew, it will include an eclectic range of performances, happenings and a ‘curious vegetable competition’, spurred on by Nabokov’s suggestion that ‘curiosity is […]
This is Water!, for ensemble and tape, takes its name from the book of the same title by David Foster Wallace, subtitled ‘Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life’ (Little, Brown & co., New York, 2009). Here is the passage, which gives that book its name: There are these two young […]
By Chris
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Posted in Withdrawn, Works
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Also tagged 2010, audio, cello, clarinet, electro, flute, percussion, string quartet, viola, violin
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