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Tag: as in the children’s game; the soloist is ‘it’.

Release: a release for the composer (and his performers) from previous modes of engagement with small ensemble music that have almost always required the services of a conductor. In this work perpetual, conventionally written soli are passed between the players. When not playing soli, musicians are reacting loosely to the solo line with a series of gestures; the soloist becomes a conductor of sorts.

Tag and release: from recreational fishing, in the interests of research and conservation.

The work is continuous but divided into three sections.

soli 1-7: introductory (loose) palindrome
soli 8-14: suddenly noise-based…gradual re-emergence of pitch
soli 18-20: intensification

With thanks to the MCL, the Silo String Quartet, Barrie Webb and Jack Body.

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After playing an awe-struck Messenger in a Greek tragedy, delivering visions and witness of the beautiful madness and fury that Dionysus/Bacchus/Bromius/Iacchos had inflicted on his followers, I wanted to write a concert piece based on such a vengeful and jealous deity. However, drawing from the traditional Greco-Roman pantheon would have been too restrictive, since many of their divine figures still have profiles and connotations a couple of millennia later. My own personal god would be better – a god created by me on a whim and now inserted into the historical record for all time.
This god has no need for names, or even for epithets, as it is all-powerful up against the futile efforts of mortals to label and identify it. Because I said so, it meddled in the lives of the inhabitants of ancient Thrace without them even knowing it. And you know why? BECAUSE IT CAN. Poor sods.

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