Word and sound
one theme of my work in recent years has been adding music and sound to poetry and prose.
'Suspense - Does Not Conclude -'
this is the third of 2009's Three Spring Performances and will take place on Wednesday 17 June. it is based on a setting of Emily Dickinson's poetry to hymn tunes likely to have been popular in the Sedbergh area in the late 19th century. for more about the piece, please follow this link to a page about Three Spring Performances.
'Descant on Rawthey's Madrigal'
this piece, putting music to a selection from Basil Bunting's poem 'Briggflatts', had its first performance on 8 September 2007 at Brigflatts Meeting House, Sedbergh. for more about the piece, please follow this link to a page about it.
Story//Sound, 15 December 2006
this one was in Westwood Books in Sedbergh, as a pre-Christmas entertainment. I provided sound to go with stories and poetry written and read by Jackie Huck, stories written and read by Lynette Shaw McKone, and a dramatic reading by members of Spellbound Theatre of a story by Helen Leslie Bromley. the sound was again generated live, but this time it was all original material.
Word//Sound, 27 September 2006
this performance took place in St. Andrew's Church, Sedbergh, as part of the 2006 Sedbergh Festival of Books and Drama. I provided the soundtrack to readings of their own poetry by Jonathan Allen and Lynette Shaw McKone, readings of Jalaluddin Rumi's poetry by Ian McPherson, and readings of various writers' work by myself. the music was a mix of live processing of the voices, live digitally-generated sound, field recordings and DJing.