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Singing Bell / Our Lady from Guadelupe

'Singing Bell', for the writer and poet Malcolm Guite’s poem, and 'Our Lady of Guadelupe', written for the series of performances with Grevel Lindop. These are concerned with exploring the use of moment forms derived from Charles (and Ruth) Seeger’s ideas of dissonant counterpoint, used in Stravinsky-style blocks that trigger different textures for the improvisations between stanzas. The harmonic material and rhythmic gestures created then inform the improvised sections that follow (see SCORE prints attached).

Live performance (WEB Link)

The piece Singing Bell was created for the TS Eliot Festival (June 2009; see YouTube link), along with six other Grevel Lindop poem settings, and performed both there and at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. This has also been recorded as an instrumental by David Gordon for release of a future CD.

CD SNOW BLUE NIGHT, Track 9

Pieces such as Our Lady have also now been released as stand-alone instrumental pieces by my quartet on the CD Snow-Blue Night, released in November 2012. The CD is the result of a grant to record, promote and tour the new material. We have been doing performances both as an instrumental quartet or accompanying poets at events for the last 7 years, with one CD (Riprap) already released and available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and YouTube (See URL link for an example of a performance of Singing Bell)