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Robbie Ellis  

Alla Marcia Brady

Duration: 05' 00" (can vary) Year: 2012
for a whole bunch of wind & brass

  • Programme Note

    alla marcia – adv. As a musical direction: in the style of a march. Also as adj., n. (Source: Oxford English Dictionary.)
    Marcia Brady – A character from the 1969-1974 American television series The Brady Bunch. (Source: Wikipedia.)

    General instructions/suggestions include:
    - Gather a dozen or so wind and brass players. Have them memorise this music.
    - The players should walk one by one from off-stage to on-stage.
    - If possible, have them do a complete circuit across the stage, off the other side, through the backstage area, then back onto the stage through the original entry point.
    - I encourage the use of surprising points of entry, e.g. balconies, strange doors, trapdoors, zip lines, time machines.
    - Optional: incorporate the theme tune to The Brady Bunch in Bb major.

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Samuel Holloway  

Austerity Measures

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2012
for recorder, koto and guitar

Alex Taylor  

burlesques mécaniques

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 2012
ten miniatures for piano trio

  • Instrumentation
    Piano, Violin, Cello
  • Programme Note

    burlesques mécaniques is a rather extroverted collection of grotesque miniatures whose characters are not people or animals but dances. These dances have been mechanised, electrified, and often obscured by their own rhythmic impulse. Old forms and formulaic tropes are given new identities, freed from the confines of metric stability and the expectation that they be “danceable”. The essentially mechanical, artificial aspect of music (and of art in general?) is embodied in the piano, here a brittle, seedy protagonist whose string limbs hover and flail about it. Conflicting rhythms dominate the surface, oscillating between insistent repetition and mad, angular flourishes. The generally jerky, muscular rhythmic material is periodically frozen throughout the work, most strikingly in the ninth movement (chain). Here a string of rich, impressionistic chords briefly reveals an alternative, interior world which is then rudely dismissed in an almost haphazard finale.

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Mike Nock  

By Sea

 Year: 2012
a duo written together with Laurenz Pike for piano and drum kit

Samuel Holloway  

Desire Lines

 Year: 2012
for eight performers

Mike Nock  

Kindred

 Year: 2012
a duo written together with Laurenz Pike for piano and drum kit

Mike Nock  

Le Primitif

 Year: 2012
a duo written together with Laurenz Pike for piano and drum kit

Karlo Margetic  

Lightbox

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 2012
for piano trio

  • Instrumentation
    Violin, Cello and Piano
  • Programme Note

    When I think of a piano trio, I immediately think of a transparent interplay of lines. This has something to do with the fact that the instruments that make up the modern piano trio are not particularly homogeneous, unlike say, a string quartet. It’s as if somebody had strewn some line drawings of simple three dimensional objects on a photographer’s lightbox, all on top of one another, resulting in an unexpected and strangely beautiful assemblage.

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Mike Nock  

Mike Battles The Hydra

 Year: 2012
a duo written together with Laurenz Pike for piano and drum kit

Mike Nock  

Sleepwalking

 Year: 2012
a duo written together with Laurenz Pike for piano and drum kit