Composition
Jet Lag
This is a work I composed when I first arrived in Thailand. Whilst I was adapting to my new time zone this is the work I wrote to represent my shifting body clock whilst my sleep was at a highly disturbed point. The slow movement of the melodies pitted against each other represent my tiredness and my body slowly adapting to my new time zone. The interruption in the middle is emblematic of the anger and disappointment I felt while not being able to adapt to this new time zone.
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Emblematic of the constantly shifting time we live in; this piece strikes with high intensity and aims to shock the audience. With repeated motifs which are constantly shifting and a lack of centred pulse the work creates an unstable aura for both performers and listeners. This instability only grows throughout the piece as the original motif slowly morphs into a very unreliable detached variant of itself, proving a very disconcerting energy for everyone involved until we reach a climax and are suddenly dropped into obscurity
Disruption and Illusion
Circadian
Taking a look at our working system everyone has to performer at the same efficiency at the same time of day. This idea is detrimental to both out work and most importantly our health. This four movement work exemplifies the difference in cycles between people. Each movement follows thee parts as they slowly move into their most comfortable preferred schedule.
As you grow up sleep gets slowly less and less important. When we are born however, our guardians make sure we get enough sleep to help us grow as people and to stay healthy. จันทร์เจ้า is a Thai lullaby which I decided to re-arrange to show this change over time. The naturalistic sound of this lullaby is contrasted by harsh electronic noise which I feel is the main distraction for people as the grow up - the electronic world.
จันทร์เจ้า
Hypnagogia
A path though my sleep. I take my audience on a journey through my experience in Bangkok though a semi improvised sonic exploration of my mind
Concepts
In this piece I shall be linking the sounds I experience is both walks of my life, from Stourbridge (my home town – suburbia) to Bangkok (where I currently live). This work shall be written for two musicians and electronics, with each musician representing an area. I want to capture the extreme difference in sound between the two areas providing a look into the urbanisation of the areas, contextualising other works of my project so the audience understands the difference of my situations.
Stourbridge to Bangkok
Noise?
In this piece I want to discover the difference in what is a sound compared to a noise. What is noise and what is sound/music is subjective to each individual and I want to tread this line in this work. What is considered a normal sound in Thailand I perceive as noise, and I want to play with the difference in my own and others perception with this work. When does a non-musical sound become musical?
Due to the industrialisation of the world we have began to drown out the sounds we want to hear. The sounds of nature and the chattering of the population has been drowned out by busy roads, construction sites and the general urbanisation of our cities. I want to formulate a work to show people how we cover up these sounds and show the beauty of what we are covering. This could either be an entirely electronic work where two layers of sounds are layered upon one another and they slowly shift apart highlighting what has been masked or a similar concept in which live musicians are drowned out by an external noise source and as this noise shifts so we start to hear more of the intricacies of the work.
Hidden Sound
dB
For many people the idea of noise pollution having a large detrimental impact on your health is unfathomable. Silence has become a privilege much of the world has been separated from and hasn’t even realised this separation. I want to represent how the dB scale works through my work slowly increasing the noise and intensity based on the dB scale. Raising awareness of this scale I hope I can show the damage we are causing ourselves every day.