Vultures

€40.00

for violin, viola, cello, double bass, percussion, and stereo playback

8 minutes

Download includes a pdf of the score and parts and an audio file of the stereo playback part. Download here.

Note: Vultures can be performed with or without the stereo playback

First performed by Crash Ensemble at Carlow Arts Festival, Carlow, Ireland, June 2017

“The atmospheric harmonies of this piece managed to generate an ethereal soundscape that was quite engaging.” - The Journal of Music

 

Program Note:

Vultures is inspired by the ghost estates situated on the outskirts of my hometown in the Midlands. There is a quiet eeriness at these locations, almost haunted by the potential of the neighbourhoods they could have become. The material of the piece comes from a very visual place; the idea of a string quartet playing in a sitting room of one of these unfinished houses, wind whistling through unbuilt window frames, the music bouncing off concrete. The warmth of the strings is engulfed by the starkness of the tape part.