A Massive Thank You

I would like to reiterate the big thank you to all the musicians involved in the New Voices version of Santuary. You all gave a huge amount of energy, creativity and hard graft to the project and I am extremely grateful. Thanks also for putting up with my research agenda alongside the music agenda.

Su-a Lee (cello)
Innes Watson (fiddle & guitar)
Martin Green (accordion)
Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle)
Corrina Hewat (harp)
Patsy Reid (fiddle & viola)


I salute you!
xx

Lucken Hare - A Sword and A Horn

[Rough recordings from the New Voices gig at Celtic Connections 2010. Full of ideas for rewriting and developing these now and would love to get them rehearsed up and gigged/recorded.]

This became known as "the beast" in rehearsal!

6. Lucken Hare - A Sword and A Horn.mp3

Lucken Hare - The Tongue That Never Lies

[Rough recordings from the New Voices gig at Celtic Connections 2010. Full of ideas for rewriting and developing these now and would love to get them rehearsed up and gigged/recorded.]


This piece isn't finished. It needs some tweaking!

5. Lucken Hare - The Tongue That Never Lies.mp3

Eildon

[Rough recordings from the New Voices gig at Celtic Connections 2010. Full of ideas for rewriting and developing these now and would love to get them rehearsed up and gigged/recorded.]


I really enjoyed this piece!

4. Eildon.mp3

Lucken Hare - Prophecy

[Rough recordings from the New Voices gig at Celtic Connections 2010. Full of ideas for rewriting and developing these now and would love to get them rehearsed up and gigged/recorded.]


This rough recording doesn't quite do the story justice, needs a good mix & a wee edit! (on the to do list)

3. Lucken Hare - Prophecy.mp3

As Water Wears The Rock

[Rough recordings from the New Voices gig at Celtic Connections 2010. Full of ideas for rewriting and developing these now and would love to get them rehearsed up and gigged/recorded.] >br>

This is a piece about St Mary's Loch and includes some text from James Hogg.

2. As Water Wears The Rock.mp3

Debateable Lands

Rough recordings from the New Voices gig at Celtic Connections 2010. Full of ideas for rewriting and developing these now and would love to get them rehearsed up and gigged/recorded.

This first piece is for 4 fiddles each in a different tuning.

1. Debateable Lands.mp3

The music is in place!!

Finished writing the last piece today (well for now anyway..) and the fiddle section were amazing at rehearsal today. Fingers crossed it all holds together on Sunday, it's just so new. aaagh.

I am just so thankful for the excellent musicians who all agreed to give their time, energy and musicianship to this project. It's a lot of work for everyone at a really busy time and they are doing such beautiful things with my notes. Innes and I were joking today in the taxi that even if it doesn't hold together this group of musicians will make something that sounds fantastic out of the rubble. I love that. And the piece moves in and out of improvised and free sections so there are plenty of opportunities to stray!

The grey areas between idea and intention, communication (score/recording/notes/conversation/demonstration) and performance/product(s) are quite interesting to me and right now I really prefer to have a flexibility in each of those stages and overall.

What a steep learning curve the whole project has been so far..

Lori

story - Canonbie Dick

a story in Border Scots as told by Ian Landles (thanks Ian)

Canonbie Dick Final..mp3

audio issue

sorry the audio clips don't seem to be working just now.. not sure what's happened. I'll try reloading when I get a chance. suggestions welcome :)

Lori