*** RECENT THOUGHTS: *** [SELF HOSTING A HOMELAB (REDUCING CLOUD DEPENDENCE)] *** [REAL-TIME CONVERSION OF TWITCH CHAT INTO NOTATION] *** [REPLACING SPOTIFY] *** [LEARNING TO SING TENOR] *** [RADIO CAROLINE] *** [ANIMATED MUSIC NOTATION] *** [BUILDING ASTABLE MULTIVIBRATORS] *** [ENDING COPYRIGHT] *** [ADAM CURTIS] *** [IMMERSING A STRING QUARTET IN WATER, AGAIN, ALWAYS] *** [CORPUS-BASED CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS] *** [CYBORG VIOLAS] *** [JAMES ACASTER] *** [ORLANDO GIBBONS] *** [MUSIC IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS] *** [RADICAL HAPPINESS] *** [THE OVERSTORY] *** [DAVID SHIELDS’ <EM>REALITY HUNGER</EM>] *** [PRIVATE MOMENTS IN PUBLIC SPACES] *** [DAVID GRAEBER] *** END OF TRANSMISSION ***

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Tide Quartet

(2020) [90]

string quartet; violin, violin, viola, cello

A string quartet dress in wet suits, sitting on chairs on the dry sea-bed in Dublin Bay. They perform a theme and variations (improvised from a set of instructions) as the tide begins to rush in around them. The performance ends for each musician only when the water reaches their neck, making it a durational piece reliant on the speed of the tide. Afterwards, the saturated instruments will be retrieved and the composer will attempt to save them by leaving them to dry naturally. This process will also be recorded and shown on this website. Unsalvageable parts will be repaired using driftwood, and the piece will be performed again next year.

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