An Inspector Calls Day 4

Good evening everyone. Day 4 in the studio making my new work for the company, based on the themes in Priestley’s play An Inspector Calls. The emphasis today was finding the musicality in the sublime The Lark Ascending composed by British composer Ralph Vaughan...

True

With just over a week to go, I’d like to share the thinking behind my new work for the company – True It’s a quartet for the whole  company very loosely based on the German folk tale of Weibertreue. At Weinsberg, in Württemberg, on the summit of a...

Language, images and reflections….

Firstly, apologies – I meant to write this blog after our first couple of sessions with Gary a week or so ago, but always got caught up in something else. Now, I’m finally realising my good intentions before returning to the studio with Gary this evening – hopefully...

Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey…

It’s always the way with studio time – it seems that you can blink and suddenly you’re nearly at the end of 2 weeks together. Having said that, I feel like these 2 weeks have really allowed us some time and space to progress both Fascination and d-cay, and given us a...

Recapping and revisiting…

Rehearsals this February have a different feel than usual – rather than using this period to create another piece we are refreshing our memories on Fractal and Stand Up Straight as well as picking up Synapsequence (from Connections 2012) ready to première in March. It...