Audio accompanying my proposal for Dreaming of a Medieval World
Below is a recording of Nocturne No. 1 for guitar and electronics as well as a short duet responding to art. Links to the web pages for each piece is provided for further info. Please bear in mind, these pieces are concert hall works and therefore have a more abstract language than is proposed for this commission brief.
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Extract from programme Note:
"[I think of the first section] as a lullaby that drifts between the worlds of consciousness and sleep accompanied by the comfort, peril and/or escapism found in the poetry of the Shipping Forecast.... The second section dwells in an eerie sine-tone world that comes from the Greenwich Time Signal 'pips' (six sine tone beeps that mark each hour). To me there is a latent activity inherent in the silences between the pips and it is this imaginary space that I hope to explore."
"[I think of the first section] as a lullaby that drifts between the worlds of consciousness and sleep accompanied by the comfort, peril and/or escapism found in the poetry of the Shipping Forecast.... The second section dwells in an eerie sine-tone world that comes from the Greenwich Time Signal 'pips' (six sine tone beeps that mark each hour). To me there is a latent activity inherent in the silences between the pips and it is this imaginary space that I hope to explore."
Extract from Programme Note:
I dissected the picture and directly mapped colours of the clearly visible brushstrokes to harmonies. Working back and forth, this created blurry, impressionistic material that loops around a repeated phrase (a harmonic representation of the vibrant yellow in the centre of the picture). The shimmering, fading end is a nod to the eye following the yellow shimmer into the distance.
I dissected the picture and directly mapped colours of the clearly visible brushstrokes to harmonies. Working back and forth, this created blurry, impressionistic material that loops around a repeated phrase (a harmonic representation of the vibrant yellow in the centre of the picture). The shimmering, fading end is a nod to the eye following the yellow shimmer into the distance.