Instrumentation

fl.cl - pno (prepared) - vln.vlc

Availability

Score and parts for hire

Programme Notes

Grind Show is a superimposition of two scenes: the foreground in a bawdy dance hall, and the background a rainy landscape at night. The acoustic instruments play out a drama with a dialogue of irregular dances, while the electronics depict a sinister outside world. While composing grind show I saw a painting by Goya: ‘The St Isidore Pilgrimage’, which shows a crowd of debauched and frightened revelers appearing to flee across the hills from a distant town. It’s painted over an earlier landscape on which, in turn, the figures were superimposed. (Tansy Davies)

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Forbidden City (Beijing, China)

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Kings Place (London, United Kingdom)

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Davis Theater (Chicago, IL, USA)

Access Contemporary Music/Chris Ramaekers

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Tenri Cultural Institute (New York City, NY, USA)

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Theaterhaus T3 (Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

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