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fragile.flicker.fragment

Fragile.Flicker.Fragment is an extended composition in nine parts. Parts 2, 6 and 7 were commissioned by BrassArt and premiered at the A-Foundation, Liverpool; Part 1 and 8 (Memory Box & Memory Etching) were premiered at the Fylkingen Institute, Sweden. The work has been extensively broadcast and performed, both in totality and in part, receiving over 60 performances and broadcasts in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United States, and the UK. The work takes my compositional practice in new directions, resulting from a close collaboration with a number of visual artists. Three of the works were commissioned by the BrassArt collective. The remaining six works were composed as part of a collaboration with the visual artist Pip Dickens to accompany her exhibition ‘Toward the Light’ shown at Cartwright Hall in Bradford in May 2010. The project was supported by the Arts Council of England Touring Exhibition and was subsequently presented at The Brindley Arts Centre, Cheshire (31 March – 12 May 2012). The research underpinning the composition is outlined in the following article: Adkins, M. (2012) ‘Issues of Live-ness in fragile.flicker. fragment’, Journal of Music, Technology and Education (6000 words). This article was originally given as a paper at FIMPAC Conference, University of Leeds. Guest Lectures on this work have been given at National University of Mexico; New York University; CUNY Gradate Centre, Queens (Aaron Copland School of Music), New York. This paper examines different methodologies of recording instruments and explains how the process of mixing blurs the boundary between documentary capture and compositional artefact.