Nature is conquest, possession, eating, sleeping, procreation. It is not aesthetic, not the kind of inspiration I’m interested in.
….I believe in the recurrence…
…freedom from mastery and slavery
freedom from what’s dragging you down
freedom from right and wrong…
..no more conquests, no longer an enemy to anyone
ego retired, wandering
no longer a friend, master, slave
all the opposites dead to the world and himself responsible
From “The Untroubled Mind” by Agnes Martin
A new opera scene commissioned by Irish National Opera as part of 20 Shots of Opera. Performed by Sinéad Campbell-Wallace with RTE Concert Orchestra conducted by Fergus Shiel. Directed by Jo Mangan
“Some of it was crazy: Hamilton’s Proclamation of the Republic was a wildly difficult recreation of the ‘confusion and repetition of Patrick Pearse’s reading of the text during the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin’. Christopher Fox: TEMPO, April 2017
‘a’ from the recently released album JOY was chosen by Score Follower for the 2020 call for works:
I am delighted to have been invited to be composer in residence with Crash Ensemble. I will be working with them on a new hour-long work for 2021. My relationship with the ensemble goes back to 2003 and they commissioned and recorded ‘music for people who like art’ which you can see here in a film made by José Miguel Jiménez:
Joy, the new solo album was released on June 8th and is available to download and stream here on Ergodos Records.
As part of the Music Network Butterfly Sessions I wrote a new solo violin piece ‘music for people who want to go home’ for Mairéad Hickey and you can see the online performance here:
New film for the track “May” from the forthcoming album “Joy” by Emma Martin [http://unitedfall.com/], editing by Luca Truffarelli [https://www.lucatruffarelli.com/].
