Joe Bates
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    • Large Ensemble >
      • Muted The Night
      • London's Other Bones
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      • Us Alone
      • A Noise So Loud
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      • Sparrow
      • Street Through A Window
      • Two Animals
      • Flim Flam
      • Slow Hills
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      • The Hazelnut
      • Some Parts of Us
      • Now Is A Long Time
      • Cataracts
      • Ceasing
      • Hildegard
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Music

To get an overview of my music, you could start with my solo works: my EP, Flim Flam, or my piece for double bass, Sparrow. From there, you could check out my work for choir, Ceasing, or my works for small ensemble, A Noise So Loud or Us Alone. 

Large Ensemble


Muted The Night (2019)

"Music is feeling, then, not sound; 
And thus it is that what I feel, 
Here in this room, desiring you, 

Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, 
Is music." (Wallace Stevens, Peter Quince at the Clavier)
3'30". For orchestra.
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London's Other Bones (2016)

A piece about London, where every building is raised from the guts of its predecessor.
17'. For orchestra.
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Small Ensemble


Us Alone (2018)

A piece about failure, written for Zoe Martlew. A partner piece for Horatiu Radulescu's Intimate Rituals.
18'. For cello and 2 Sound Icons; or cello and electronics.
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Recording


A Noise So Loud (2017)

A piano quartet that gets happier as it goes along. 
16', with an excerptible movement. For Piano Quartet.
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Vocal


The Hazelnut (2020)

A song about seeing all of creation in a ball the size of a hazelnut. Text by Julian of Norwich.
5'. For choir.
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Now Is A Long Time (2020)

A song about time in isolation.
6'. For choir.
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Some Parts of Us (2020)

A song about losing friends.
5'. For choir.
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Cataracts (2020)

A song about blindness and waterfalls.
4'. For soprano and piano.
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Ceasing (2019)

A song about death.
16'. For choir and live electronics.
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Video

Hildegard (2018)

A setting of Hildegard of Bingen's imaginary language for a film by Paul Vernon.
10'30". For synths, soprano and film, or soprano and electronics.
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​Film

Solo


Sparrow (2020)

A virtuosic tune for double bass.
9'. For solo double, scordatura.
Full details.
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Recording

Street Through A Window (2020)

A suite of dusty pieces for muted, detuned harp.
12', with four excerptible movements. For solo harp.
Full details.
Score

Two Animals (2020)

A meditation for singing accordionist. 
5'. 
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Flim Flam EP (2018)

A suite for synthesisers about desire at a remove.
28'. For solo electronics.
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Recording

Early Summers EP (2017)

A series of songs, for me to perform, that I never perform.
27'. For a singer playing keyboard and electronics.
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Slow Hills (2013)

A piano piece about wanting to run away to a cottage in the rain. ​
5'. ​For piano.
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​Recording

The Internal Glow Of Electric Hearts (2010)

"Awake all night my friends and I,
Hunkered under mosque lamps domed with fine-traced brass:
These charged our spirits to shine like them:
The internal of electric hearts." Marinetti, trans. Oran Maguire

5'. For electronics.
​Full details
All photographs by Ilme Vysniauskaite
  • News
  • Music
    • Full List
    • Large Ensemble >
      • Muted The Night
      • London's Other Bones
    • Small Ensemble >
      • Us Alone
      • A Noise So Loud
    • Solo >
      • Sparrow
      • Street Through A Window
      • Two Animals
      • Flim Flam
      • Slow Hills
    • Vocal >
      • The Hazelnut
      • Some Parts of Us
      • Now Is A Long Time
      • Cataracts
      • Ceasing
      • Hildegard
  • Recordings
  • About
  • Teaching
  • Filthy Lucre