Spinning colours | faded time for piano quartet
This work was premiered on Wednesday 15th September by Trio Northumbria and pianist Alison Gill at Newcastle University as part of the RMA conference.The piece starts at 40 minutes into the concert.
Programme notes:
The piece explores the ways that musical expressions of colour interact with musical renderings of Laban's eight efforts. Each gesture and colour has an associated weight, energy, and speed, creating interesting relationships between the instruments and their respective sonorities.
The first half of the piece explores the slow Laban efforts: float, glide, wring, and press. Thesecond half engages with the gestural efforts: flick, slash, dab, and punch, before the material disintegrates in the pure harmonics, seemingly ever longer each time.