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Alex Taylor  

between

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2011
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    2232 2200 1perc harp piano strings
  • Programme Note

    you miss swimming in electric lights
    between your fingers, the sound of running water
    things you had forgotten, left behind:
    the chair legs you forgot to felt
    the ink-black shirt for every occasion.
    the perfect sentence continues to elude you

    between is both a musical exploration of acoustic spaces, and also a conversation between past and present, an interaction between my own compositional practice and that of a musical ancestor, the great New Zealand composer Anthony Watson (1933-1973). The shared musical material, from Watson’s Prelude and Allegro (1960) provides the platform on which this conversation takes place, encompassing musical worlds both lyrical and angular, grand and intimate. The poem above is my own.

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Ryan Youens  

Blimp

Duration: 02' 20" Year: 2011
A short, one movement work for orchestra

Robbie Ellis  

General Intransigence

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2012
for orchestra

Alex Taylor  

silk / gravel

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2011
for string orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    for string Orchestra, ideally at least 6.6.4.4.2 but can work with fewer: minimum would be 4.4.3.3.1
  • Programme Note

    This work is an exploration of the possibilities of the string orchestra as a body of sound, the orchestra at times acting like one giant super-instrument composed of intricately superimposed layers. Old textures are continually swallowed up, recycled and transformed, playing out a finely balanced tension between static and active, supple and brittle, strong and fragile. From a fluid, tangled haze, individual voices periodically emerge to assert some kind of nostalgic lyricism, but each time they are ultimately subsumed, swallowed up in an eerie, ambivalent mass of sound. Stylistically the music is varied and eclectic, weaving together the intricate, spidery lines of Ligeti, the delicate chordal sonorities of Messiaen, the caustic anger of Shostakovich and even the brooding menace of Anthony Watson.

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Alex Taylor  

six pieces for orchestra

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2010
for orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    3333; 4331; timp; 2 perc; strings
  • Programme Note

    six pieces for orchestra grew out of another, more substantial piece for wind quartet, which in turn was inspired and heavily influenced by Ligeti’s Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet. In some senses this is an orchestration or arrangement of my own work (eight pieces for wind quartet), but the aural experiments set up in that original piece are pushed further here, at times to the point of extreme severity. Three cloud-like movements are broken up by virtuosic, acerbic little interludes, each miniature movement exploring different psycho-acoustic directions and instrumental effects.

    Alex Taylor

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Chris White  

Train To London

Duration: 01' 13" Year: 2010
From the soundtrack to BBC Wonderland documentary Boy Cheerleaders