Ceasing (2019)
Details
Description: Choir and electronics
Duration: 16'
Instrumentation: SSAATTBB (amplified) – electronics(1): laptop, audio interface, Ableton software, 8 microphones, six PAs
Commission: Commissioned by SANSARA Choir
First performance: 18 April 2020, The Barbican Centre's Sound Unbound Festival, St. Bartholomew-the-Great. Performed by SANSARA Choir, conducted by Tom Herring.
Score link
Recording: Premiere recording, premiere film
Programme Note
Ceasing considers how we deal with death. To write it, I interviewed the singers of SANSARA about their experiences of death. This was a strange and moving process; I’m immensely grateful to the singers for their openness. Their stories have been integrated into the text of the piece, which I have written myself. The piece starts in the specificities of my grandmother's death and opens up to a broader understanding of how we cease. The electronics blur and magnify the choir, suggesting the mass of similar stories behind them.
Description: Choir and electronics
Duration: 16'
Instrumentation: SSAATTBB (amplified) – electronics(1): laptop, audio interface, Ableton software, 8 microphones, six PAs
Commission: Commissioned by SANSARA Choir
First performance: 18 April 2020, The Barbican Centre's Sound Unbound Festival, St. Bartholomew-the-Great. Performed by SANSARA Choir, conducted by Tom Herring.
Score link
Recording: Premiere recording, premiere film
Programme Note
Ceasing considers how we deal with death. To write it, I interviewed the singers of SANSARA about their experiences of death. This was a strange and moving process; I’m immensely grateful to the singers for their openness. Their stories have been integrated into the text of the piece, which I have written myself. The piece starts in the specificities of my grandmother's death and opens up to a broader understanding of how we cease. The electronics blur and magnify the choir, suggesting the mass of similar stories behind them.
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