Negotiating with the Dead: A self help programme for composers

Text Score, Performance, Audio Composition
Published Structo Magazine, Issue 12, 2014
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Audio composition broadcast on Borealis Radio, part of the Borealis Festival, Bergen, March 2016
Audio composition presented at symposium “If we’re going to use this wretched term, then let’s be clear
who was innovating in it.” Wysing Arts Centre as part of The Multiverse Electra Residency, 25 July 2015
Audio composition broadcast on Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow, 13 -19 April 2015
Live score realisation performed at The Society Club, London, 18 August 2014

Inspired by the Margaret Atwood text of the same name. Interested in the potential of imagined sound. The absurdity and impossibility of the performance instructions were first ’realised’ live with props including a mic and amp, a ten pound note, a pen, a battery powered record player and selection of 7” records, and a bag of marshmallows. The later fixed composition attempted to make audible the instructions and situations the score raises, not as a literal ‘sounding’ but rather an abstract haunted collage.