Category: Chamber Music

Lockdown Lyrics

Photograph © Bill Carslake

Nine poems written during the first nine days of ‘lockdown’ in the UK . Three lines in each poem, nine syllables in each line, creating ‘999’ for the state of emergency and constraint. Set to music for two voices and cello. Songs for strange times. Recording to follow.

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Particles 1, 2 & 3

The ‘Particles’ series is about the viscosity of air. It sparkles and dances around us, pushing up against the objects that we see; swathing the night in light.

Wind 1

The first in a new series of works about the wind. It designs the shapes of rocks and trees, and whirls the ice in turf digs.

London Life

A suite of five movements for clarinet, violin, guitar, double bass, harpsichord and timpani. Originally sound-tracks for short films produced by Sands Films. Now available as a comic concert suite.

Photograph © Bill Carslake (Cairngorms 2018)

Wind 1 for bassoon and violin. Extract, sampled sounds.

The first in a new series of works about the wind. It designs the shapes of rocks and trees, and whirls the ice in turf digs. The prevailing wind in the UK is from the Southwest. Climate warming is changing this. When planting a tree you would spread the roots to the Southwest so that it might stand for centuries to come. Which way to spread the roots now?

More Chamber Music

London Life

A suite of five movements for clarinet, violin, guitar, double bass, harpsichord and timpani. Originally sound-tracks for short films produced by Sands Films. Now available as a comic concert suite.

Lockdown Lyrics

Nine poems written during the first nine days of ‘lockdown’ in the UK set to music for two voices and cello.

Particles 1, 2 & 3

The ‘Particles’ series is about the viscosity of air. It sparkles and dances around us, pushing up against the objects that we see; swathing the night in light.

The Particles series is about the viscosity of air. It sparkles and dances around us, pushing up against everything we see. Particles 1, 2 & 3 exist in two different versions. The first version is for solo violin with different orchestral sections (Particle 1 – double basses; Particle 2 – violas; Particle 3 – second violins). The second version is for violin, cello, piano and clarinet, arranged for Alisios Camerata of Zagreb. There is also an arrangement of Particle 2 for youth orchestra, written for London Music Masters, in which professional tutors play the demanding passages.

Particle 1, sampled sounds

Particle 2, performed by Alisios Camerata of Zagreb at Banff Centre, Canada, 2017

Particle 3, sampled sounds

More Chamber Music

London Life

A suite of five movements for clarinet, violin, guitar, double bass, harpsichord and timpani. Originally sound-tracks for short films produced by Sands Films. Now available as a comic concert suite.

Wind 1

The first in a new series of works about the wind. It designs the shapes of rocks and trees, and whirls the ice in turf digs.

Lockdown Lyrics

Nine poems written during the first nine days of ‘lockdown’ in the UK set to music for two voices and cello.

Photograph by Ichigo121212

A suite of five movements for clarinet, violin, guitar, double bass, harpsichord and timpani. Originally sound-tracks for short films produced by Sands Films. Now available as a comic concert suite. The harpsichord part can be played on piano (preferably upright) and the timpani part on a smaller drum. Parts available on request.

London Life mvnt 4. Clarinet, Ewan Bleach; violin, Max Bailey; double bass, Dave O’Brien; production (including sampled guitar, harpsichord and timpani) Anthony Weeden.