Choir

Written at the time of the first Gulf war. This is the third piece of a tryptich including no us and what else. The three pieces should be performed together.

Instrumentation: SATB Choir, Percussion

Written at the time of the first Gulf war. This is the second piece of a tryptich including no us and where to. The three pieces should be performed together.

Instrumentation: SATB Choir, Percussion

Written at the time of the first Gulf war. This is the first piece of a tryptich including what else and where to. The three pieces should be performed together.

Instrumentation: SATB Choir, Percussion

This music was written in memory of John Cage whose artistic work and friendship illuminated much of my life in the late eighties and very early nineties. I envisaged a tribute made by a ‘fluorescent’ haze of sound created by sustained timbral particles being shifted in space. Each voice is intended as a solo instrument and an independent source of timbral variations through constant vowels changes and harmonics production. The spatial arrangement of the singers is related to the vocal ranges of the eight voices.

First performed by the National Chamber Choir, conducted by Celso Antune, at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 31st July 2003.

Instrumentation: SATB Choir