Matthew Pollard
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Glen Capra
Like many of his friends, I was distressed to learn of Glen Capra’s death on 29th August in Greece. I was one of a group who regularly went for beers in The Evening Star with Glen when he made one of his regular visits back to Brighton after he had settled in Kavala. Glen was…
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Minotaur
I don’t dwell much on past projects. I’m always focused on the next thing. On Friday I had a few beers with Glen Capra, and this reminded me of Glen and I recording my poem Minotaur, which had been set to music by Matthew Pollard, in one take back in 2011. I made this video…
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The story of your eyes
Met up with my great friend Matt Pollard recently, with whom I collaborated on the high concept piece This Concert Will Fall In Love With You in the Brighton Fringe back in 2010. It was a strange idea in retrospect, that a concert could be haunted by an entity with a voice who fell in…
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‘Clameur’ on Spotify
I downloaded Spotify, to which we now have a premium account. I first signed up to it years ago, but in the interim it has evolved into a thing of wonder. It’s good to use. Though some of my searches resulted in nothing, there is an unimaginable wealth of stuff on there. Slightly to my surprise I found…
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Clameur Launch 11 February 2012
The Clameur album launch will be on 11th February 2012 at the Unitarian Church in New Road Brighton. For those that know Brighton this couldn’t be more central, and is the big church with classical columns a few doors up from Brighton’s Theatre Royal and opposite the Dome Box Office and Mash Tun pub. The…
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Recording Clameur
Writing this a week after the recording sessions for the CD Matt and I are putting together. We recorded the tracks in St Michael and All Angel’s church in Brighton, which was the same venue that we premiered the main piece This Concert Will Fall In Love With You in the Brighton Festival Fringe in…
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It’s ‘Clameur’
So Matt and I have agreed our CD will be called Clameur. This is the title of one of the choral pieces Matt based on my poem of the same name, which appeared in A Guernsey Double. Clameur means a cry or plea, and there is an ancient legal procedure still extant in Guernsey law…
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Recording ‘This concert will fall in love with you’
We now have a date, 2nd July, for recording This concert will fall in love with you. We will record the piece where it was originally performed in St Michael and All Angels church as the accoustics were fabulous there. The sound pooled and hung in the air, which due to the Matt’s instrumentation of…
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Theme and variations one and two
Like some kind of ghoul, I am usually unfilmable. And the recordings we made of This Concert will fall in love with you all went wrong in mysterious ways –for example the sound files recorded by Glen Capra were on his laptop, stolen in Northern Ireland. But happily we have just fixed the video camera…
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This concert will fall in love with you
My collaboration with classical music composer Matthew Pollard is fascinating. Matt recently played me through parts of the first five variations. For me it was incredibly exciting to hear the music taking shape. It is full of delicious uncertainties. And it is quite humbling to hear how they interlace and enlarge on the words I’ve…
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