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 […]
Recently I have been interested in cartography and the important role it plays in how we comprehend the spaces we inhabit. An atlas is a collection of maps, often several maps show the same area but map different details and data, each time revealing another facet of the land’s geography. Small Atlas lays out a […]
Driven by an urge to find ways of combining the quiet, tactile spaces I have been becoming increasingly fond of with something more forceful and volatile, Wege & Waldstille in some ways combines ideas from various strands of my work from the last couple of years. In trying to frame liminal, delicate soundworlds with more […]
Chant-cris Notturno/Abschiedslied I Aubade/Abschiedslied II Three Sky Studies, for solo piano, were composed over the course of 2009, with ‘Chant-cris’, a virtuosic scattering of notes inspired by birdsong and Elliott Carter’s Caténaires, acting as a kind of short prelude to the second and third movements, which were written with pianist friends in mind. The first […]
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For a while now, I have been interested in the edges of things: where things start and stop being, where they vanish, where one idea bleeds into another. This piece attempts to combine found sounds and streams of ‘noise’ that we carry with us in the background of our lives — radios, pop music, conversations, remembered places — only […]