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.
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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