Flim Flam (2018)
Details
Description: Solo electronics
Duration: 28'
Instrumentation: Only available for performance by the composer. Tech rider: PA system, mixing desk, keyboard stool.
Commission: N/A
First performance: 20 June 2020, "Artificial Hells" at Grow Tottenham, London. Performed by the composer.
Score link
Recording: EP available via Bandcamp. Film of live performance at Artificial Hells.
Movements: I. Sorbet II. Flow III. Chant I IV. Flim Flam V. Chant II VI. Furl
Programme Note
This record is about desire at a remove. A hot summer through a haze, a search for flow through mental obstacles, a desire for calm and clarity against a more proximate desire for stimulation and novelty. To me, it has a sound that is both somehow flat, slightly distant, and yet filled with energy and motion, like rain on a hot day or fog in a rich landscape. Another analogy would be the Laban Effort Actions: it is indirect, sustained, and bound, and can be either light or heavy. (Laban categorises these actions as Flick, when light, and Wring, when heavy.)
A pair of couplets from Fiona Apple’s Valentine perhaps summarises it:
“I'm amorous but out of reach
A still life drawing of a peach
I'm a tulip in a cup
I stand no chance of growing up.”
Description: Solo electronics
Duration: 28'
Instrumentation: Only available for performance by the composer. Tech rider: PA system, mixing desk, keyboard stool.
Commission: N/A
First performance: 20 June 2020, "Artificial Hells" at Grow Tottenham, London. Performed by the composer.
Score link
Recording: EP available via Bandcamp. Film of live performance at Artificial Hells.
Movements: I. Sorbet II. Flow III. Chant I IV. Flim Flam V. Chant II VI. Furl
Programme Note
This record is about desire at a remove. A hot summer through a haze, a search for flow through mental obstacles, a desire for calm and clarity against a more proximate desire for stimulation and novelty. To me, it has a sound that is both somehow flat, slightly distant, and yet filled with energy and motion, like rain on a hot day or fog in a rich landscape. Another analogy would be the Laban Effort Actions: it is indirect, sustained, and bound, and can be either light or heavy. (Laban categorises these actions as Flick, when light, and Wring, when heavy.)
A pair of couplets from Fiona Apple’s Valentine perhaps summarises it:
“I'm amorous but out of reach
A still life drawing of a peach
I'm a tulip in a cup
I stand no chance of growing up.”
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