Helmut Lachenmann's Salut Für Caudwell: an analysis

This analysis of Helmut Lachenmann's Salut für Caudwell (1977) for guitar duet is intended to add to the small amount of English literature that directly examines Lachenmann's music. A description of Salut's construction is offered, decrypting the extended techniques employed and outlining the work's formal design. The concept of ‘musical ruins’, namely degenerative yet familiar material, is deployed as a means to discuss specific moments of the music, and it will be demonstrated that moments of ‘musical ruin’ are inherently linked to aspects of instrumental technique as well as the musical form, making them critical to the reception of Salut. Other analyses of Lachenmann's work are used as methodological models and comparisons, providing a framework within which to examine unfamiliar musical territory, and placing Salut within the repertory of Lachenmann's more thoroughly documented music.

Ruin Renewal: Manchester's Upper Brook Chapel

This essay offers a reflection on the development of the Upper Brook Chapel, Manchester. Taking Robert Smithson's concept of 'ruins in reverse' as a starting point, the essay attempts to articulate how the processes of ruin restoration can lead to an aesthetic that is more ruinous. The essay draws upon existing architecture and natural formations for comparison, before reflecting upon the social implications that arise from such redevelopment projects.

Ruin Renewal: Manchester's Upper Brook Chapel

This essay offers a reflection on the development of the Upper Brook Chapel, Manchester. Taking Robert Smithson's concept of 'ruins in reverse' as a starting point, the essay attempts to articulate how the processes of ruin restoration can lead to an aesthetic that is more ruinous. The essay draws upon existing architecture and natural formations for comparison, before reflecting upon the social implications that arise from such redevelopment projects.

Ruin Renewal: Manchester's Upper Brook Chapel

This essay offers a reflection on the development of the Upper Brook Chapel, Manchester. Taking Robert Smithson's concept of 'ruins in reverse' as a starting point, the essay attempts to articulate how the processes of ruin restoration can lead to an aesthetic that is more ruinous. The essay draws upon existing architecture and natural formations for comparison, before reflecting upon the social implications that arise from such redevelopment projects.

Mark Dyer // Composer

Solo

(2019)

Prepared 'cello and pre-recorded audio

A pursuit (or task), its arc, and the blisters traced

(2019)

Contrabass clarinet in Bb and pre-recorded audio

Droning Falsities (for one's self)

(2018)

Flute and pre-recorded audio

Memento for Kathryn (and being able to hold that forever)

(2015)

Piano

(2015)

Scordatura violin

Growing Space for Artefact

Ensemble

(2020)

Trio, pre-recorded audio, live electronics and video

Of Red Herrings, Wild Celery and Armed Men: the marginalia of little Symon

(2019)

Voice and lute

Icon across Index

(2018)

Ensemble and pre-recorded audio

Radcliffe Tower: redirected reflections

(2018)

Open score quartet

To go along, however, is to thread one's way

(2017)

String quartet

What I find in Raking

Dreidel Dreidel-ing

(2015)

Mezzo soprano and 'cello

(2015)

Ensemble

Insubstantial Pageant Faded

(2014)

Ensemble

Fixed Media / Installation

(2018)

Fixed audio installation

Adam lay ybounden

(2016)

Violin and pre-recorded audio, video accompaniment

Dreaming of Weightlessness, I found another way