All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2013, bass clarinet, cello, clarinet, ensemble, flute, guitar, percussion, saxophone, tenor saxophone, voice
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Monday, 10 September 2012
This short work is part game piece, part physical performance, part sound. At the heart of it lies the question: what happens when we stop breathing? The exhaustion of a physical limit — the breath, the bow — is deployed as a mechanism controlling what we hear and how long we hear it for. The original text is in French, […]
By Chris
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Posted in Works
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Also tagged 2012, chamber, voice
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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 […]
This short, two-movement work came out of an earlier work for solo viola, Gaza Cantos, which was written after the invasion of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Defence Forces in December 2008. The title references Amir Nizar Zuabi’s play I am Yusuf and this is my brother, set before and after ‘al Nakba’ in […]
By Chris
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Posted in Withdrawn, Works
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Also tagged 2011, solo
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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, electronics, flute, percussion, string quartet, viola
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