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Answer Machine Tape, 1987
Duration: 45 minutes. For solo piano with sound and live video using a MIDI KeyScanner on the piano. A multimedia piece based on the weeks around the death of artist Peter Hujar in 1987 from AIDS-related illness, as told through the answerphone messages left for fellow artist David Wojnarowicz.
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Fight music
Duration: 5 minutes. For eight players: solo cello + fl, cl, tpt, tbn, pf, drum kit, bass. A smaller version exists for six players (solo cello + fl, cl, pf, perc, vn) A short, aggressive and lively piece about a fight.
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Flipp
Duration: 3 minutes. For two saxophones of the same type. A short, virtuosic, rhythmic duet.
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Illusions (feat. David Hoyle)
Duration: 14 minutes. For video projection and nine players: picc.bsax / tpt.tbn / pf.1perc(BD.whistle.tgl) / vn.va.cb. An aggressive, political, in-yer-face piece, featuring performance artist David Hoyle, on the themes of gender, sexuality, democracy, war and revolution.
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K (prelude to Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet)
Duration 7’30”. For Clarinet Quintet. A meditative prelude to Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, in which the string quartet obscures and reveals the first two bars of Mozart’s Quintet, which are finally revealed at the end.
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My Favourite Piece is the Goldberg Variations
Duration: 23 minutes. For solo accordion. In a troubadour fashion, the accordionist plays whilst telling his mother’s lifestory in 12 short chapters, from first crush at school through marriage, children, retirement, being widowed, and attending her son’s accordion concerts where he plays the Goldberg Variations.
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Naomo Pinnetuo
Duration: 2 minutes. A fast, virtuosic piece for solo violin, based on a fragment by Naomi Pinnock.
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numbers 76-80 : tristan and isolde
Duration: 14 minutes. For four voices (SATB) and string quartet. Words and music, using the poem ‘numbers 76–80: tristan und isolde’ by Simon Howard, in five short movements.
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numbers 81–85; numbers 96–100
Duration: 20 minutes total (12 minutes for numbers 81–85; 8 minutes for numbers 96–100. For Mezzo-Soprano (F3–A5), Alto flute, Clarinet, String Trio and optional video projection. Two pieces, one a kind of story, the other a kind of breathing meditation, based on poetry by Simon Howard.
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numbers 91–95
Duration 9 minutes. For speaking voice with two tape recorders, flute, woodblock, harp (may be substituted for piano or guitar.) Spoken text and music, based on the poem of the same name by Simon Howard, about politics, disenfrachisement and nostalgia.
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Piano Studies
Duration: 17 minutes. A set of five studies for solo piano.