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Bright Lights
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Bright Lights creates a multi-changing soundscape of trombone textures by use of changing time signatures and recurring refrains. Whilst the fanfare element is always important, the irregular rhythmic nuances create a sparkling effect throughout.

Antiphonary - Liz Lane
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'Antiphonary' is inspired by Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, the oldest building in the country still lived in by the same family who built it over 900 years ago; the title refers to the Berkeley family antiphonary, a large and beautifully illumi... Read More about Antiphonary - Liz Lane.

Canzon à 8
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Canzon à 8 was written for Brett Baker’s ‘1000 Trombones Birthday Bash’ at Bristol Cathedral in July 2013, and broadly based around the concept of similar music of the same name by Gabrieli. The use of two quartets optimising the cathedral space and... Read More about Canzon à 8.

Protest camps
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Protest camps are global phenomena, occurring across a wide range of social movements and encompassing a diversity of demands for social change. They are spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious polit... Read More about Protest camps.

City strata
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‘City Strata’ is a new mobile authoring platform which enables developers to create different heritage ‘layers’ or ways of experiencing the city, that their users can then enhance by uploading their own content. Behind the scenes, the platform innov... Read More about City strata.

Collab docs blog
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The blog reflects the Collaborative Docs practice-based AHRC Research Fellowship in Creative & Performing Arts. The research looks at the intersection between documentary and the Social, Semantic and Open Web. It investigates through action research... Read More about Collab docs blog.

Diamond Fanfare
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Diamond Fanfare is written for a special occasion; hidden within the festive music are two separate versions of part of the National Anthem. Rhythmic drive and momentum is sustained by the percussion throughout whilst celebratory motifs are passed a... Read More about Diamond Fanfare.

Spirit of Africa
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'Spirit of Africa' was commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival and first performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Maureen Brathwaite and BackBeat Percussion, conductor Gavin Carr, at Cheltenham Town Hall on 12 July 2012. It is written for SATB c... Read More about Spirit of Africa.

Old Stones Remember
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Old Stones Remember, part of the 2012 Presteigne Festival Singing Histories outreach project, is the musical culmination of a creative initiative involving a series of workshops with Gladestry Church in Wales Primary School, Knighton Church in Wales... Read More about Old Stones Remember.