with Electronics

for solo percussion and electronics - coming soon

for cello and electronics - coming soon

for solo horn and electronics (2024) 

Duration: c.4'

Programme Note:

Low-poly landscapes was inspired by early 2000s and 90s video game graphics. I find a lot of nostalgia in these types of graphics and gravitate a lot to these video games when/if I find time to play them. These landscapes found in these games inspired me to write in a “horn-call” style to reference the original purpose of the instrument. By then using effects to degrade the resultant audio to a similar quality to 2000s MP3 players, alongside reverb and delay modulation, the calls the horn makes in this piece passes over these low-poly landscapes and degrades over time, swelling into reverberant, nostalgic chambers.

Much of the horn writing in this piece takes inspiration from both Richard and Franz Strauss’ horn music. When I played horn as a performer, I always found their horn music to work incredibly well and particularly Richard Strauss’ Horn Concerto No.1. The opening of that piece is so incredibly epic and vast, but so idiomatic for the horn. I hold a lot of nostalgia for these pieces and so in a piece about nostalgia, I found places in this piece to indirectly reference this writing.

for solo recorder and tape loops (2024)

Duration: 5'

This piece was premiered on the 8th of March 2024, at the Royal College of Music, London in the 2024 Consort 21 concert, performed by Luca Imperiale (recorder) and Thomas Shorthouse (tapes).

Find a recording of this piece here.

Programme Note:

Written for the RCM Consort 21 project, 2024, When I dreamt of rain centres around the theme of childhood nostalgia, painting a picture of a peaceful dream, interrupted by the appearance of fire, before returning to calm again when rain finally falls.

The melodic lines in the piece dart around, and mimic the natural recordings found in the tapes, alongside the more synth-based loops directly recorded onto the tapes using a direct-in cassette recorder.

I chose to use cassettes and tape loops for this piece particularly for their dream-like character. The warbly, saturated sound world created by tape is exactly the atmosphere I wanted to create in this piece to circle around the recorder, which represents the dreamer/audience, and their journey through this world.