In The Shadow of Day: String quartet and chamber string ensemble. Premiered at the Hampstead & Highgate music festival, 2003 by the Royal Academy Soloists under Clio Gould. This excerpt begins during the 2nd half othe piece after a fast and frantic opening.
Revolve: for flute and live electronics. Jessica Raposo [flute] and Andrew Morgan [electronics] performed at the Royal Academy of Music's Duke's Hall in June, 2004.
The solo flute is accompanied by mostly AM radio which is triggered and manipulated in real-time allowing the electronic part of the duet to act as a live accompaniment rather than a stiff guide track as normally found in electronic accompaniments where the performer is forced to follow a pre-set CD.
When the radio static was recorded, the broadcasts happen to be focused on the problems in Isreal/Palestine, which had a strong influence on the solo writing.
Sublimation for 6 Pianos. Origionally for one pianist recorded 6 times in which the performer follows a series of intentionally unclear visual cues instructing when to play the various looping cells of music. This creates a sense of rhythmic "phase" between the parts - created by human inexactness rather than shifting rhythmic patters, as found in Reich. A version for 6 live pianos was premiered by the six piano ensemble Piano Circus in July 2006.
String Trio Part 1: Performed by David Worswick [vln] Pedro Meireles [vla] and Ben Trigg [vcl] on November 30th, 2004 at London's Conway Hall. By controlling all the musical elements but not having the ensemble play in time with each other, this movement creates an energetic counterpoint with tightly controlled material which is allowed to be played freely and in a soloistic manner. The ensemble is allowed to react to each other in a more improvisational manner while still working off of written parts, thus controlling the harmonic movement as well as the forground/background balance.
[Object Recall] is a two part composition comprised of Object [recall] and [object] Recall. The first piece is a duet for clarinet and oboe that is a fixed piece. The second piece is an improvisation based on that piece and adding live electronics to add to the feeling of recalling. It was premiered on 18th June 2006 by Danial Bates, oboe - Katherine Spencer, Clarinet and Andrew Morgan on electronics. It was commissioned by Sounds Underground for the concert. When programmed in a concert, there should be one or two pieces between the two parts of this piece.
Vandermark/Morgan Project is a series of pieces created for Chicago based free jazz improviser Ken Vandermark to improvise over. After the first outing in London in 2004 with a grant from the MBF, the concert was repeated in Chicago in February 2007, and again in October 2007, which was presented by the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies for a special archive.
Escena: Trio for three flutes. Composed and premiered in 2008 in Malaga Spain, this pieces continues to explore the same ideas as the string trio by writing long sections of music which are meant to be started together, but the performers play freely within the given sections. This creates a sense of spontinaity and solistic playing, again similar to the sort of freedom found in free improvisation but with a harmonic and formal structure to the piece.
Filmed in 2008 in a patio at the Instituto Gaona, where Picaso studied as a young boy. Performed by Saleta Suarez Ogando, Elena Gonzales Pisonero and Maira Jose Rivera.
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