I will be in residence at Bundanon in 2022!! Bundanon’s Artists in Residence program supports new work, research and collaborations by artists and researchers from around the world. 2022 will also be a significant year for Bundanon with the opening of the spectacular new Art Museum and the Bridge for creative learning.
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The Capital Theatre Bendigo, 50 View St, , Bendigo VIC 3550 Australia
The AudioVisual Garden is an installation work by Anthony Lyons and Paul Fletcher commissioned for Conflux Bendigo. It can be experienced at the Capital Theatre, Bendigo across the 9th-10th September as part of Conflux Bendigo.
The AudioVisual Garden is a large sound and light installation that translates the energy from plants and people into images and sounds in a quest to discover hidden forms of communication or fields of influence between plants and people.
A collection of 50 indoor plants are wired up via sensors and signal translators to generate and manipulate sound and visuals. These interact with pre-made sounds, visuals and parameters set up by composer Anthony Lyons and visual artist Paul Fletcher.
The result is an installation that’s continually influenced by plants and their bio-feedback signals generating beautiful evolving patterns and shapes of light and sound.
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Melbourne Recital Centre, 31 Sturt Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3006 Australia
Au Revoir Hands performance at the Melbourne Recital Centre in the Primrose Potter Salon presents original works from their album Hemispheres, exploring concepts of navigation and voyage. An immersive sound world sitting at the intersections of neo-classical, soundscape and electronics.
Hemispheres is a rich tapestry of musical sound forged from the layering of melodic cello, analogue synthesizers, electronic atmospheres and ambient rhythms. A deeply immersive and expansive concert experience, Hemispheres invites a momentary pause to look out beyond the forces that push and pull us.
"A stunning, imaginative and mesmerising sound world by two exceptional artists"
$25 standard / $20 concession
The Toff, 2nd Floor Curtin House 252 Swanston St. , Melbourne
Au Revoir Hands launch their album 'Hemispheres' live at the Toff in Town with support from the wonderful 'Clariloops'. After much rescheduling, the album released late in 2021 finally gets to be celebrated with a live performance in Melbourne!
$15/$20
The debut album 'Hemispheres' from 'Au Revoir Hands' (Anthony Lyons & Emily Williams) is now available on Bandcamp!! Hemispheres is due for full release November 12. Available as digital download and on vinyl limited edition. Very excited to let this out into the world. “Fusing sounds from the cello, buchla easel synth, beats and samples ‘Au Revoir Hands’ explore the worlds of experimental ambient and post-minimal electronics. Fragments, clicks and cuts sit alongside lush cello and analog synth lines. At the intersections of neo-classical, soundscape and electronic music.”
Interesting discussions on a range of topics around the 2021 ASRA Conference theme of Survival & Revival. Dr Anthony Lyons and Dr Heather Gaunt discuss the Living Instruments project and how the Grainger Museum instrument collection is being digitised through a process of creative engagement.
Friday 27th August 6pm-7pm AEST Saturday 28th August 1pm-2pm AEST
TO BE RESCHEDULED (covid) - New dates soon!
Chisholm St: Australian Voices features contemporary chamber music by Anthony Lyons (Newstead composer)/Nathan Curnow (poetry) and Amadis Lacheta (Metcalf composer), and an all-Ballarat collective of musicians including Bronwyn Blaiklock (piano), Sharon Turvey (voice), Elena Polevaya (cello) and Sarah Goodbourn (flute).
Also featured is poet, Megan J Riedl, who will enthrall you with her intimate and powerful voice.
You are welcome to bring a beverage of your choice to enjoy afterward; other refreshments are included in the ticket price. Please bring warm clothes as the performance space is partially open to an undercover deck. There is heating, but you never can be too sure in Ballarat...
To suit the current lockdown restrictions, inside seating is capped at just 10, and you will need to sanitise prior to entry and wear a mask, unless an exemption applies. Chisholm St. is a registered venue, and as such, all attendees will need to check in to the QR App. Naturally, we are all at the whims of covid and may need to postpone this series. If this eventuates, be assured that Bronwyn is committed to rescheduling, transferring your ticket to another Chisholm St series, or offering a full refund.
$32
'Submerge' is the first track release from 'Au Revoir Hands' forthcoming album 'Hemispheres'. A lush world of glitched beats, cello, moog synth and buchla easel sit alongside gritty fragments of noise, broken and reframed samples of voice, viola da gamba and harp.
Available from all download and streaming platforms from 27th August!!
Including Bandcamp: https://aurevoirhands.bandcamp.com/
Au Revoir Hands play the Bridge Hotel Castlemaine with Louise Terra on Thursday 22nd July. It's Free! So come on down for dinner, drinks, cosy vibes and music!
AU REVOIR HANDS @ 8PM
LOUISE TERRA @ 9PM
Au Revoir Hands are Anthony Lyons and Emily Williams. Amplified effected cello, buchla music easel synth, beats and samples they explore the worlds of experimental ambient pop and post-minimal electronics.
Multidisciplinary artist and music producer Louise Terra carves a ubiquitous sound and style of electronic music. Taking cues from left-field electronica, dream pop and images from her psyche, each song Louise produces is a world gravitating towards the surreal and the sacred.
9th - 10th September (2022) - AudioVisual Garden installation for Conflux Bendigo - a collaborative sound and light work with Paul Fletcher.
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5th August (2022) - Au Revoir Hands perform Hemispheres, at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Primrose Potter Salon.
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17th March (2022) - Album launch - Au Revoir Hands, The Toff, Melbourne.
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28th January (2022) - Publication in The Grainger Journal, vol 17, no 2 (Dr Anthony Lyons, Dr Heather Gaunt, A/Prof Rochus Hinkel)
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9th - 10th November (2021) - ASRA Australasian Sound Recordings Association Conference. Presentation on the Living Instruments Project.
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5th-6th November (2021) - Australian Voices - Performance of The Last Chocolate Factory, Concert at Chisholm St, Ballarat.
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12th - 22nd May (2021) - Mara Korper - Theatre Works, St. Kilda, Melbourne.
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29th April (2021) - Living Instruments: preserving old and rare instruments by creating their digital twins - A presentation for Melbourne Knowledge Week, Melbourne Connect Hub, Science Gallery.
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27th February (2021) - Coming Home - Audiovisual performance at the Phee Broadway Theatre, Castlemaine.
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2nd December (2020) - MPavilion performance - Isolation Improvisation Collective
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16th November (2020) - Telematic Music - Isolation Improvisation Collective (IIC) album & book release. Available through 'Nice Music' here.
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3-5 Sept. (2020) - International Conference on the Inclusive Museum - Presentation 'Composing the Museum', Lisbon, Portugal - delivered virtually.
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10th July (2020) - StayHomeSounds Remixing the global lockdown - Album release w/ Cities and Memory, Oxford, UK. Get album here
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2nd June (2020) - Make it up Club w/ Islolation Improvisation Collective, Online Concert #11
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9th November (2019) - Mara KORPER @ La Mamma Courthouse, Carlton, Melbourne.
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26th September (2019) - Turning Circles, performance with Syzygy Ensemble, @ Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne.
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15th August (2019) - Home is Inside Us, West Projections Festival, Performance @ Kindred Studios, Melbourne.
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1st August (2019) - Fabric Culture exhibition performance @ Grainger Museum, Melbourne.
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1st July (2019) - Space is the Place project launch @ Cities and Memory, Oxford, UK.
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16th-23rd June (2019) - New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival & International Computer Music Conference - Audiovisual Installation work 'Complementary Halves' shown at NYU, New York City, United States.
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9th May (2019) - How it Plays: Innovations in Percussion - exhibition opening. Exhibition continues at the Grainger Museum until Dec. 2019, Melbourne, Australia.
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27th November (2018) - Porto/Post/Doc Film & Media Festival screenings of the audiovisual work Dreams of Plants (Lyons/Fletcher), Porto Planetarium, Porto, Portugal.
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26th November (2018) - Sounding Nature - launch of Cities and Memory project of recorded and re-imagined sounds of the natural world including Traces, Patterns, Calls (A.Lyons). Oxford, UK.
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14th November (2018) - IMPA TV - Anthony Lyons & Emily Williams - Live at Islington Mill Attic video recording released. Watch here.
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26th September (2018) iMPA TV - live video performance Anthony Lyons and Emily Williams, Manchester, UK.
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10th September (2018) iC Sing on the Cake - new work & performance, buchla easel and electronics, Melba Hall, University of Melbourne.
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9th September (2018) Monuments - synth performance with the New Music Studio, Melba Hall, University of Melbourne.
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5th July (2018) Narratives of Climate Change Short Film Exhibition, Newcastle, Australia.
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4th July (2018) Jibber Jabber Sound Club, CASPA Castlemaine - performance on Buchla Music Easel.
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24th May (2018) 12th FullDome Festival, Zeiss-Planetarium, Jenna, Germany.
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16th May (2018) Synthi 100 Live - globally streamed performance on the EMS Synthi 100, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
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10th May (2018) Pagan Dances - with Syzygy Ensemble - Melbourne Recital Centre.
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28th April (2018) Small and Loud - The Channel, The Arts Centre, Melbourne.
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1st-6th Dec. (2017) Matera Intermedia Festival - audiovisual, electroacoustic and digital arts festival, Matera, Italy.
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29th Nov. (2017) Abstract Heterotopias - Melbourne Planetarium, Spotswood.
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10th-12th Nov. (2017) Sound-Image Colloquium: Exploring Audiovisual Practice, University of Greenwich, London.
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28th Oct. (2017) Resonating Spaces: Rarotonga Reimagined - performance and installation at Punanga Nui, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
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7th Oct. (2017) Node 0: Lounge Beats - performance event at Grant Street Theatre, Melbourne.
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7th & 8th September (2017) Reconfiguring Orpheus - performance at the Meat Market, North Melbourne.
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18th August (2017) Sound and Image of Future Landscape - An installation exhibition, opening at the On-Air Gallery, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
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17th August (2017) Sound, Design and Animation - a talk given at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
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2nd August (2017) Synthi 100 - In Concert, performance at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank, Melbourne.
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27th July (2017) Percy Grainger: Freedom as_, with Liquid Architecture, sound sculpture installation @ Grainger Museum, Melbourne.
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9th June (2017) Sounding Out Love: Art of Emotion - published in the Australian Research Council's Blog for the Histories of Emotion.
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27th May (2017) Love Remixed - Grant Street Theatre, Southbank, Melbourne
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30th April (2017) Elbow Room Concert - Wesley Anne, Melbourne.
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26th April (2017) Melbourne Masterclass: Objects, Sounds and Stories of Love. Forum Theatre, University of Melbourne.
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8th March (2017) Sacred Spaces Album Launch. Album available here
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13th February (2017) Sacred Spaces Project Launch @ Cities and Memory. Oxford, UK.
http://citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces/
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14th September (2016) CO+LAB performance @ Revolver Upstairs, Prahran.
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9th June (2016) CHE blog: 'An Engagement with the Emotional Life of Objects exhibition', published here.
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26th May (2016) Node 0: The Beats Project, performance @ Lionel's Lounge / Grant Street Theatre, Southbank.
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11-14 May (2016) The Emotional Life of Objects, exhibition & new audio works. George Paton Gallery. Melbourne.
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30th April (2016) Resonance FM 104.4 (UK) broadcast of the Prison Songs project. London.
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25th April (2016) Prison Songs launch with Cities and Memory. Oxford, UK.
www.citiesandmemory.com/projects/prisonsongs/
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28th Feb. (2016) Move Records CD Launch, with Michael Kieran Harvey. Eaglemont, Melbourne.
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5th Feb. (2016) Cities and Memory: Dada Sounds launch. Oxford, UK.
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23-24th Jan. (2016) Tilde New Music Festival - performance and installation, Arts Centre, Testing Grounds, AIM, Melbourne.
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21st Nov. (2015) Elbow Room Concert, Wesley Anne, Melbourne.
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17th Oct. (2015) Zèppelin Festival. Electroacoustic Concert, Ravel Hall - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.
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17th Oct. (2015) Punanga Nui Market installation & performance. Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
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16th Oct. (2015) Zèppelin Festival. Exposició Sonora, Theatre Hall - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.
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25th July (2015) Melbourne Composers Concert Series, Victorian Flute Guild, MLC, Kew.
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22nd May (2015) Node Zero (0.1) Concert, The HUB, VCA, University of Melbourne.
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12th April (2015) Elbow Room Concert, MCL, Montslavat.
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20th March (2015) DDCA Symposium. The Outstanding Field: Artistic Research. Federation Hall, Melbourne.
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24th Jan. (2015) Tilde New Music Festival.
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16th Nov. Songs from my Suitcase. Kew Court House concert.
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2nd Nov. Bleedthrough Concert. Oratory, Abbotsford.
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17th Oct. NODE Zero concert, Southbank, Melbourne
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9th-11th July. ACMC 60x60 Concert. VCA Federation Hall, Melbourne.
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17th Nov. 4ZZZ Brisbane. Broadcast of Amy Tinderbox's radio piece exploring collaborative processes behind the Pure Poetry Project
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9th Nov. Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC. Pure Poetry Project concert
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13th Oct. osh10 CD launch at the Empress, Melbourne
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12th Aug. Performance of Trace Elements I-II for piano/electronics with Michael Kieran Harvey at the State Theatre Centre, Perth, WA (ICMC/Totally Huge New Music Festival)
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28th Feb. Tinderbox Radio - live to air Ballarat
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24th Jan. Strings recording with osh10 at Atlantis Sound
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1-8 Dec. Bach/Lyons recording, Copenhagen, Denmark
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29 Nov. Performance of solo cello works at the Malaysian Composers Concert Series, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, Malaysia
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8-30 Nov. Residency at La Muse, Labastide, France
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30 Sept. Astra Spring Piano Series, Concert #1, Fitzroy, Melbourne
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6-17 Sept. Japan Tour
7th Sept. Headpower, Shinjuku, Tokyo
8th Sept. Waver, Nishi-Ogikubo, Tokyo
9th Sept. Fushimi, Nagoya
12th Sept. Urbanguild, Kyoto
13th Sept. Vi-code, Osaka
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19-23 July. W.A Tour with osh10
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29 March. Atlantis Studios. String Quartet recording
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23-27 Feb. Lifschitz/Lyons piano recording
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16th Jan. Featured composer on the the 'Australian Sounds' program on Radio 3MBS FM
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26th Sept. The Bach/Lyons Project perform @ Literaturhaus, Copenhagen
Compositions and collaborations between Anthony Lyons and Anders Bach were performed beautifully by the musicians of the Bach/Lyons Project at Literaturhaus, Copenhagen - a very special evening!
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19th Sept. @ Melbourne Recital Centre new work for orchestra premiered
The premiere of Quelques Cercles for orchestra went really well at the Melbourne Recital Centre. Conductor Michael Thomas did a great job preparing the orchestra for the night which also included works by Bartok and de Falla.
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Program Notes
Some of the program notes for the composition works of Anthony Lyons are in the process of being added below.
Quelques Cercles - for orchestra
Premiered by The University of Melbourne Orchestra at the Melbourne Recital Centre 19th September, 2011.
Quelques Cercles (several circles) takes its title and broad inspiration from a painting by Vassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky’s abstract painting, full of coloured circles against a dark background seemed to me like a snapshot of the cosmos or a nebulae full of rotating stars and planets. A postcard of the work had been sitting on my desk since I picked it up from a Kandinsky exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in 2009. In the early stages of this composition it became apparent that the music was developing with some parallels to Kandinsky’s circular images that shared my working space.
The orchestral work Quelques Cercles is underpinned by a passacaglia figure and this is repeated throughout the work in various forms and colourations – moving around a pitch cycle until it finally returns to the original pitch centre. The passacaglia figure, first heard in the cellos, also provides much of the melodic and motif material for the work. It is put through various modal and chromatic harmonic filtering to bring out different colours with its repetitions. The middle section of the piece is based on the first four notes of the passacaglia figure and this is elongated over a pedal-point texture – forming an inner circle within the larger circular structure.
The work also utilises pulse. This moves between the foreground and background musical textures and functions as an additional circular element overall. The pulse figures are based on quavers in three’s and two’s (derived from the 7/8, 5/8 section of the work). The 7/8, 5/8 pulses are at times superimposed within the crotchet based parts of the piece providing a sense of syncopation and overlapping metres – a little like the overlapping circles in Kandinsky’s painting.
Anthony Lyons, September 2011
You can listen to Quelques Cercles on the Audio/Media page here
