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Us Alone (2018)

Details
​Description:
 Chamber ensemble

Duration: 18'

Instrumentation: vc.2 Sound Icons*. Also available for: Vc.elec

* Sound Icons are grand pianos turned on their side, with the dampers removed, which are bowed with nylon threads. Two are available to hire from the composer.


​Commission: Written for Rolf Hind's Occupy The Pianos festival, 2018.

First performance: 20 April 2018, St. John's Smith Square. Zoe Martlew (cello), Ben Smith and Joe Bates (Sound Icons).

Score link

Recording: Recording from premiere

Programme Note
A piece about failure, written for Zoe Martlew as part of Occupy the Pianos 2018. It is intended as a partner piece for Horatiu Radulescu's Intimate Rituals, which uses the same instrumentation, and similar tuning and techniques.

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All photographs by Ilme Vysniauskaite
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      • Muted The Night
      • London's Other Bones
    • Small Ensemble >
      • Us Alone
      • A Noise So Loud
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      • 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
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  • Filthy Lucre