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small waves raised by the evening [2016]

from nature forms I by GreyWing Ensemble

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Lindsay Vickery
small waves raised by the evening [2016] for bass clarinet, electric guitar, harp and field recordings

THIS IS A delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself. As I walk along the stony shore of the pond in my shirt-sleeves, though it is cool as well as cloudy and windy, and I see nothing special to attract me, all the elements are unusually congenial to me. The bullfrogs trump to usher in the night, and the note of the whip-poor-will is borne on the rippling wind from over the water. Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled. These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface.
Henry David Thoreau:Walden: Chapter 5 Solitude

small waves [2016] uses the contours of a field recording as its formal structure. Different aspects of the recording are highlighted via a range of digital processes and transcribed for bass clarinet, electric guitar and harp. The title is a quote from Henry David Thoreau's Walden - part of an extended reflection on the sounds of nature - birds, frogs, leaves and the night wind - from the chapter Solitude. The field recording was made by Australian composer, guitarist and sound engineer Philip Kenworthy [pippinkenworthy.com].

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from nature forms I, released March 25, 2018
Lindsay Vickery has been active as a composer and performer across Europe, the USA and Asia since 1986. His music includes works for acoustic and electronic instruments in interactive-electronic, improvised or fully notated settings, ranging from solo pieces to opera. He was a Churchill Fellow and held residencies at STEIM (Holland), HarvestWorks, Tokyo Wondersite and numerous universities. He was a founding member of Alea New Music Ensemble, Magnetic Pig, SQUINT, HEDKIKR (2002-), Decibel (2009-) and GreyWing (2016-).Lindsay is active as a lecturer, writer and critic and is a regular contributor to internationaljournals and conferences, He is the coordinator of composition and music technology at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. [www.lindsayvickery.com]

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GreyWing Ensemble Perth, Australia

GreyWing is an Australian new music group exploring and creating repertoire for harp (Catherine Ashley), electric guitar (Jameson Feakes) and winds (Kirsten Smith and Lindsay Vickery) and electronics. Important thematic strands in the group’s exploration have included environmental music, political commentary, text, generative works, improvisation and noise. ... more

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