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Trio
2024
Bass Clarinet
Cello
Fixed Media Audio
Fixed Media Video
Piano
- Program Notes
- ‘Step in the room, turn on the tap, and cleanse your rotting soul from that desk…’ Composed for Terra Invisus’ second of three events as part of their Residency at the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham, London; I was inspired by the theme of the set of concerts which explored the theme of the home, and in the case of the second concert, where this piece will be premiered – the bathroom. On a personal level, I have often affiliated the bathroom as a place where you can almost lock yourself away from the outside world, washing away any ‘debris’ (both in figurative and literal level) that has built up over the day/night; the day job that drains your energy, the struggling to balance freelancing with a social life, various worries about the political landscape we find ourselves in, etc. etc. In this particular work, I asked the trio what items or things they owned or cherished which helped have their minds cast away from reality for a split moment; whether it was a cup of coffee, popcorn or yarn, these items as well as several others appear in the video element of the piece, much of which was filmed in woodland (a place that myself and the trio all agreed upon as being an escapist place). On a musical level the work meanders and trawls through various swells, oscillations, drones and soft timbral changes; journeying through different textures that the trio and the fixed electronics produces; moving in and out different techniques and well as tunings.
- Performer Credits
- Terra Invisus