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What I find in Raking

For string quartet. Written for the Cuerda Quartet. This piece uses the treble line from 'Yonder comes a courteous knight’, a folk tune recorded in Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia (1609), as a basis for material. The piece functions as a form of creative-autoethnography, reflecting on, and then documenting in reverse, the creative process taken. I wanted to record the repeated act of collecting and dispersing fragments from the original melody and convey to the listener the meditative effect this had on me as an artist.

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Premiered by Cuerda Quartet, Royal Northern College of Music, Mar 2018.

Arditti Quartet, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, Jun 2019.

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