https://christiandrew.com Christian Drew - Composer Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:18:44 +0000 https://christiandrew.com en https://christiandrew.com/Home Thu, 23 Dec 2021 09:05:20 +0000 Christian Drew - Composer https://christiandrew.com/Home <img width="3800" height="5066" width_o="3800" height_o="5066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b21655510013208f919bf19dec5f8e8696f318f863803ca183f2f30d3d69705/SWP_4580_v2-site.jpg" data-mid="146014001" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b21655510013208f919bf19dec5f8e8696f318f863803ca183f2f30d3d69705/SWP_4580_v2-site.jpg" /> Christian Drew is a composer and performer based in London. His music layers influences from baroque, renaissance and romantic music with shoegaze, jazz, electronic and folk. As a composer he has worked with ensembles like the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Plus Minus Ensemble, Apartment House, Psappha Ensemble, EXAUDI and the Marian Consort, with performances at the Barbican Centre, Cafe OTO, Wigmore Hall, Music We’d Like to Hear, 840 Series and Cheltenham Festival. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the University of Southampton...&nbsp;read more. Photo: Sam Walton https://christiandrew.com/20-Time Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:18:44 +0000 Christian Drew - Composer https://christiandrew.com/20-Time 20% TIME&nbsp;2025vocal ensemble SSAATTBB&nbsp; [6’] view score <img width="1466" height="2074" width_o="1466" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4ad8d2c47e5a295a7b22d0d1dce0eeba0b9f536578a0b9ec87cbd8398d8a039/Screenshot-2025-09-24-at-13.21.11.png" data-mid="238604764" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4ad8d2c47e5a295a7b22d0d1dce0eeba0b9f536578a0b9ec87cbd8398d8a039/Screenshot-2025-09-24-at-13.21.11.png" /> <img width="1464" height="2076" width_o="1464" height_o="2076" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dbbc70bffc6948631468a86d7dda01a81915c1ebeffb8370539ab5cca9020683/Screenshot-2025-09-24-at-13.21.20.png" data-mid="238604765" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dbbc70bffc6948631468a86d7dda01a81915c1ebeffb8370539ab5cca9020683/Screenshot-2025-09-24-at-13.21.20.png" /> <img width="1460" height="2074" width_o="1460" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5de79c3f861bb6ebf56e6578bbed655c409fc5367ecda1e168a72e846fc28a11/Screenshot-2025-09-24-at-13.21.32.png" data-mid="238604766" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5de79c3f861bb6ebf56e6578bbed655c409fc5367ecda1e168a72e846fc28a11/Screenshot-2025-09-24-at-13.21.32.png" /> If you type into Google ‘what is it called when’ followed by any single letter of the alphabet, the search bar’s autocomplete feature uses machine learning to predict the rest of your query. From ‘horses dance’ to ‘prices go up’, ‘nature takes over’ to ‘you quit a job’, Google’s suggestions offer an insight into what people are searching for in your geolocation. This feature was created by Kevin Gibbs in 2004 during Google’s ‘20% time’, where employees were encouraged to spend up to a fifth of their paid work time pursuing personal projects.&nbsp; My text for this piece strings together some of these autocompletes into a stream of searching consciousness for two choirs. One choir sings music inspired by the raw, open harmony of sacred harp music. The other sings Appalachian folk, bluegrass and gospel-inspired close harmonies. As the piece developed, I sought out convergence and divergence between the choirs, learning how the two can coexist or push and pull against one another. Commissioned by the Marian Consort for Emerging Voices 2025. https://christiandrew.com/Aquarium-Drifter Fri, 15 Apr 2022 08:42:33 +0000 Christian Drew - Composer https://christiandrew.com/Aquarium-Drifter AQUARIUM DRIFTER&nbsp;2024symphony orchestra [12’30”] I. Freedive Gigue Lente (excerpt) II. Rocococeanarium&nbsp;(excerpt) III. Subtropicali Antiquarium&nbsp;(excerpt) IV. Sunset Over the Super Sewer&nbsp;(excerpt) view score <img width="1486" height="2098" width_o="1486" height_o="2098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d414cf6ceac48cb156985ac25194a338539de763c2713ceadc58ef8ea190e58d/AD-ex.png" data-mid="213777703" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d414cf6ceac48cb156985ac25194a338539de763c2713ceadc58ef8ea190e58d/AD-ex.png" /> <img width="1484" height="2100" width_o="1484" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79df0d38a0f5f181f31a1e4067e3a528dfdede664089197c05670c14437554ba/AD-ex2.png" data-mid="213777704" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79df0d38a0f5f181f31a1e4067e3a528dfdede664089197c05670c14437554ba/AD-ex2.png" /> <img width="1484" height="2098" width_o="1484" height_o="2098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d58d0ce572946bec0ae6e782ca7ea76aacb2df509bae46b4d456e41f5a38db6/AD-ex3.png" data-mid="213777705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d58d0ce572946bec0ae6e782ca7ea76aacb2df509bae46b4d456e41f5a38db6/AD-ex3.png" /> “If the programme notes suggested we were going to get nothing but similar textures at greater length thereafter – the dreaded ‘sound world’ always suggests the triumph of atmosphere over substance – Christian Drew’s Aquarium Drifter offered an immediate corrective. Though Drew is fond of terms like “noodling” and “woozy”, there was a clear structure to this life aquatic, which took the shape of a continuous sinfonietta, and far from all the music of the past lying at the bottom of an iridescent lake, one particular neobaroque specimen seemed to break the surface in full sail. Bewitching and original “sound world”, too; the brass did Drew proud, and the woodwind managed to sound at times like a saxophone ensemble. I smiled from start to finish, and would happily have listened to the whole work again.”&nbsp; – David Nice, The Arts Desk “Drew’s Aquarium Drifter lived up to its name. Sounds blurred and rippled like water, conjured by bending pitches, woozy glissandos and pizzicato droplets. There was a joy in its laid-back warmth and an appealing freshness to the orchestration”&nbsp; – Rebecca Franks, The Times Read programme notes by Tim Rutherford-Johnson. Commissioned for the London Symphony Orchestra through the LSO Discovery Panufnik Composers Scheme, supported by The Helen Hamlyn Trust. <img width="425" height="640" width_o="425" height_o="640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e0c6a081da65c6655781979a711549fb2ed05c29361969854785e926f39dc17/Aquarium-Mac.JPG" data-mid="213781426" border="0" data-scale="86" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/425/i/7e0c6a081da65c6655781979a711549fb2ed05c29361969854785e926f39dc17/Aquarium-Mac.JPG" /> https://christiandrew.com/Medium-Summer Mon, 02 Sep 2024 08:29:57 +0000 Christian Drew - Composer https://christiandrew.com/Medium-Summer MEDIUM SUMMER&nbsp;2024mixed ensemble [13’] <img width="2888" height="2044" width_o="2888" height_o="2044" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f85d3ca2b1339e2e9368f927fc979da8c58f088762d800893a3fb5fa9711af7/Screenshot-2024-09-04-at-19.17.34.png" data-mid="217531238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f85d3ca2b1339e2e9368f927fc979da8c58f088762d800893a3fb5fa9711af7/Screenshot-2024-09-04-at-19.17.34.png" /> <img width="2898" height="2048" width_o="2898" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f285857640098fafb5a51f33eb18426a8c51ef694a3621c4a2c2fbc1a336e59/Screenshot-2024-09-04-at-19.17.53.png" data-mid="217487068" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f285857640098fafb5a51f33eb18426a8c51ef694a3621c4a2c2fbc1a336e59/Screenshot-2024-09-04-at-19.17.53.png" /> <img width="2900" height="2050" width_o="2900" height_o="2050" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b88d45da4f4b73d168f7527d2392da75d22ef1fe792f290a2df9480b84cc5d2/Screenshot-2024-09-04-at-19.19.01.png" data-mid="217487067" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b88d45da4f4b73d168f7527d2392da75d22ef1fe792f290a2df9480b84cc5d2/Screenshot-2024-09-04-at-19.19.01.png" /> Medium Summer&nbsp;was put together intuitively and freely in the days surrounding midsummer, by playing around with the sounds, materials and instruments at arm's reach: baroque muzak, noodling folk, an EDM shoegaze jig etc. Commissioned by Music We’d Like to Hear. First performed by Lara Agar, Maddie Ashman, Christian Drew, Francesca Fargion, Giacomo Fargion and Tim Parkinson at the MWLTH Summer Exhibition 2024. <img width="460" height="460" width_o="460" height_o="460" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a36b093a7cdd79b3cdbe87c0f04a33dad71e4913d65f17cad8daca8b9ead8b33/4db693535b029a0556cebfaf0e94ec29.jpg" data-mid="217421351" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/460/i/a36b093a7cdd79b3cdbe87c0f04a33dad71e4913d65f17cad8daca8b9ead8b33/4db693535b029a0556cebfaf0e94ec29.jpg" /> https://christiandrew.com/More-Parlour-Music Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:25:30 +0000 Christian Drew - Composer https://christiandrew.com/More-Parlour-Music MORE PARLOUR MUSIC&nbsp;2022 solo piano [6’] view score <img width="2425" height="3447" width_o="2425" height_o="3447" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21d3bb2e7c388d4a51798058f44200efeca0c5d825c0391aca59bb7ff7c99947/MORE-PARLOUR-MUSIC-ex-1_0001.png" data-mid="210707182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21d3bb2e7c388d4a51798058f44200efeca0c5d825c0391aca59bb7ff7c99947/MORE-PARLOUR-MUSIC-ex-1_0001.png" /> <img width="2429" height="3451" width_o="2429" height_o="3451" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/716e5c010e41fd4eb02c96fecabcaf7fcd2f3ec7348fc9191d2c8bf908c8b7f4/MORE-PARLOUR-MUSIC-ex-2_0002.png" data-mid="210707181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/716e5c010e41fd4eb02c96fecabcaf7fcd2f3ec7348fc9191d2c8bf908c8b7f4/MORE-PARLOUR-MUSIC-ex-2_0002.png" /> <img width="2424" height="3429" width_o="2424" height_o="3429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/476bdc1b246f25134370b6044de9ec8cdea1689d806b74ba712dec37a4cbe0ad/MORE-PARLOUR-MUSIC-ex-3_0003.png" data-mid="210707180" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/476bdc1b246f25134370b6044de9ec8cdea1689d806b74ba712dec37a4cbe0ad/MORE-PARLOUR-MUSIC-ex-3_0003.png" /> “...one of the most interesting solo piano pieces I’ve heard for a long time. Perhaps because it’s a kind of study, in which an ornamented and embellished, neo-baroque melodic line is played against accompanying chords from a different era and style. Christian Drew said the result was ‘like Chopin on acid’, but by the time both elements were in the lower range of the keyboard the effect was also reminiscent of Brahms’s thick chording. There’s more to it than a two-element experiment, though, as the ‘accompaniment’ at times becomes a melody element in itself and rhythmic structures are contrasted as if two different things are happening at once.” – Robert Beale, The Arts Desk More Parlour Music draws loosely on the sounds and performance practices of eighteenth and nineteenth century keyboard music. There are no direct quotations; instead I tried to let my subconscious warp and reimagine my own experiences of romantic harmony and baroque melody. &nbsp;Written for Benjamin Powell as part of Psappha Ensemble’s ‘Composing For Piano’ 2022. https://christiandrew.com/Bobby-D Tue, 21 Dec 2021 09:47:48 +0000 Christian Drew - Composer https://christiandrew.com/Bobby-D BOBBY D&nbsp;2021 violin, harmonium, two guitars, percussion and harmonicas [9’] view score <img width="2168" height="1532" width_o="2168" height_o="1532" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fcd7a037dff567b7f97b371100029cae3e4c91fa98990da6750c31d5a0e9236/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-22.37.27.png" data-mid="128774471" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fcd7a037dff567b7f97b371100029cae3e4c91fa98990da6750c31d5a0e9236/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-22.37.27.png" /> <img width="2252" height="1595" width_o="2252" height_o="1595" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/caacdae374402c572631f35a3cee1f6b9357b0ec752e36583c897b9175fc5876/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-22.43.06.png" data-mid="128885228" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/caacdae374402c572631f35a3cee1f6b9357b0ec752e36583c897b9175fc5876/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-22.43.06.png" /> <img width="2254" height="1594" width_o="2254" height_o="1594" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33ff1b6e6cf183cdadd6ea8ef9de68a8de28c02d511a0319e9f85066ecb54463/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-22.38.13.png" data-mid="128885090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33ff1b6e6cf183cdadd6ea8ef9de68a8de28c02d511a0319e9f85066ecb54463/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-22.38.13.png" /> The title is an accidental pun on Laurence Crane’s Bobby J for electric guitar. I was chatting with Patrick Hegarty about putting the piece together and told him we might both have to muster up our best Bobby D impressions (aka Bob Dylan). Written for Laurence Crane’s 60th birthday.Performed by Lara Agar, Darius Paymai, Patrick Hegarty, Christian Drew and Harry Harrison at the&nbsp;Festival of Laurence Crane. <img width="4736" height="3157" width_o="4736" height_o="3157" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b5f3d65708261f97af46a59fb6ffe12c84ca611c061252ebfa0323b258b51c0/Laurence_Show39.jpg" data-mid="127958913" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b5f3d65708261f97af46a59fb6ffe12c84ca611c061252ebfa0323b258b51c0/Laurence_Show39.jpg" /> https://christiandrew.com/Parlour-Music Sat, 08 Jan 2022 11:56:07 +0000 Christian Drew - Composer https://christiandrew.com/Parlour-Music PARLOUR MUSIC&nbsp;2021 solo harp [8’] view score <img width="1448" height="2046" width_o="1448" height_o="2046" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ca9612c3793e0f12dd2d1e8b1edfae9bb6935b2d55787b0a72d37f0460253c4/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-17.16.45.png" data-mid="132141982" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ca9612c3793e0f12dd2d1e8b1edfae9bb6935b2d55787b0a72d37f0460253c4/Screen-Shot-2022-02-01-at-17.16.45.png" /> <img width="1442" height="2040" width_o="1442" height_o="2040" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d74b4932798d40ea40d766ebd4a3daaf14067b53da7963b63bed9c943186ac4/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-18.49.01.png" data-mid="130998136" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d74b4932798d40ea40d766ebd4a3daaf14067b53da7963b63bed9c943186ac4/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-18.49.01.png" /> <img width="1440" height="2038" width_o="1440" height_o="2038" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d613fdf4d9f02f108200cd05f26672a603f6731aea0d20defe09bd925901ecb5/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-18.50.01.png" data-mid="130998132" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d613fdf4d9f02f108200cd05f26672a603f6731aea0d20defe09bd925901ecb5/Screen-Shot-2022-01-21-at-18.50.01.png" /> A sprawling amalgamation of rococo, folk and medieval music; senza misura, ornate, twangy, rolling. Described by Cara as ‘baroque harpsichord music on acid’. Written for and first performed by Cara Dawson at a Malplaquet-Muse house concert in Berlin. <img width="2448" height="2448" width_o="2448" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27971b03038945c33e2be988740f2b32e1b4aa351e7d9e00efc668fcd42af5f9/E2EBA7CA-749B-4284-B7B5-646D7394DAD0.JPG" data-mid="129505429" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27971b03038945c33e2be988740f2b32e1b4aa351e7d9e00efc668fcd42af5f9/E2EBA7CA-749B-4284-B7B5-646D7394DAD0.JPG" /> https://christiandrew.com/See-Slow-Blue Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:19:04 +0000 Christian Drew - Composer https://christiandrew.com/See-Slow-Blue SEE SLOW BLUE&nbsp;2020 clarinet, violin, cello and percussion [6’] <img width="1175" height="1672" width_o="1175" height_o="1672" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2de00e8ceb5bdce0ed849f94c494081f130102bf2260eb95ef9e72afa7204afc/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.33.21.png" data-mid="128777145" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2de00e8ceb5bdce0ed849f94c494081f130102bf2260eb95ef9e72afa7204afc/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.33.21.png" /> <img width="1182" height="1673" width_o="1182" height_o="1673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc5173f73700a474055d4589cc55eadd2491267c367b71659511f81e4419d9e3/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.33.42.png" data-mid="128777141" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc5173f73700a474055d4589cc55eadd2491267c367b71659511f81e4419d9e3/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.33.42.png" /> <img width="1179" height="1671" width_o="1179" height_o="1671" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de7b0479c9fc4f2057f3d3ca920bfa0394a65371630c21077cf6ce54c554af15/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.34.16.png" data-mid="128777137" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de7b0479c9fc4f2057f3d3ca920bfa0394a65371630c21077cf6ce54c554af15/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.34.16.png" /> “See Slow Blue takes inspiration from the music of American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, conjuring their ‘lazy ambling slide guitars’ into a glorious, woozy hymn to slowing down.” – Kate Wakeling, BBC Music Magazine Performed by London Symphony Orchestra players and released on NMC’s digital album Six Degrees of Separation.Read more about the piece on NMC’s Discover blog here. <img width="2448" height="2448" width_o="2448" height_o="2448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79ac7b325a5c7c400c03caadbfde7b6f97271550bb168872a4f93b045430db50/Slow-Blue-1.JPG" data-mid="127922727" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79ac7b325a5c7c400c03caadbfde7b6f97271550bb168872a4f93b045430db50/Slow-Blue-1.JPG" /> https://christiandrew.com/Pink-Room Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:13:33 +0000 Christian Drew - Composer https://christiandrew.com/Pink-Room PINK ROOM&nbsp;2020 open instrumentation [9’] view score <img width="1448" height="2046" width_o="1448" height_o="2046" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bcf33f97cfe78061ad3bcebd7490c06172e413639bfbc22068743e0f29db194/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-21.43.41.png" data-mid="130529225" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bcf33f97cfe78061ad3bcebd7490c06172e413639bfbc22068743e0f29db194/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-21.43.41.png" /> <img width="1446" height="2042" width_o="1446" height_o="2042" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0ab0fd5a8d2a952dcfadf81012b081a89c9ad56d33ab359cb3eb87834676911/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-17.16.18.png" data-mid="130493605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0ab0fd5a8d2a952dcfadf81012b081a89c9ad56d33ab359cb3eb87834676911/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-17.16.18.png" /> I've often looked out at two rooms in a derelict factory building outside my window. One is dimly lit with ambient orange lights, the other is lit by a bright pink fluorescent light. The orange room is lit almost all the time, but the pink room is only lit every now and again. I've never seen anyone in them. Soon the factory will be demolished to make space for new flats.Orange Room and Pink Room were composed and recorded remotely across the national lockdowns in 2020-21. Both tracks started as a remote recording project with composer and violinist Lara Agar, and eventually turned into two scores that use different types of open and flexible notation. Pink Room was recorded in 2020, early on in the first lockdown, and served as a form of demo for Orange Room, which was recorded during the 2021 lockdown. Performed by Lara Agar (violin), Jenny Akroyd (alto and soprano saxophone), Cara Dawson (harp), Christian Drew (accordion, guitar, harmonicas, kinder harp, percussion, piano), Abel Esbenshade (clarinet), Patrick Hegarty (guitar), Eden Lonsdale (cello, harmonium, percussion), Darius Paymai (harmonium, setar, percussion), Alex Tay (viola) Download from Bandcamp here. PINK ROOM | ORANGE ROOM by Christian Drew https://christiandrew.com/Shoegaze-Medieval Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:24:20 +0000 Christian Drew - Composer https://christiandrew.com/Shoegaze-Medieval SHOEGAZE MEDIEVAL&nbsp;2019 four instruments and audio [10’] <img width="2026" height="1428" width_o="2026" height_o="1428" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ac377d0d7ef214ace0b5645c14e7b5dfec1653eb448ff97bad758af3d532083/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.38.47.png" data-mid="128772871" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ac377d0d7ef214ace0b5645c14e7b5dfec1653eb448ff97bad758af3d532083/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.38.47.png" /> <img width="2026" height="1430" width_o="2026" height_o="1430" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e0a8e6c8ca82dfe419dd81f294c73990c156c36c206847e11d7d4be3b2b6f9f5/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.39.09.png" data-mid="128772867" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e0a8e6c8ca82dfe419dd81f294c73990c156c36c206847e11d7d4be3b2b6f9f5/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.39.09.png" /> <img width="2026" height="1426" width_o="2026" height_o="1426" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0b83663fe5e4410ce268bd6937db27fa9d5c11c2f2f9f2758119ee023eecf79/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.39.43.png" data-mid="128772799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0b83663fe5e4410ce268bd6937db27fa9d5c11c2f2f9f2758119ee023eecf79/Screen-Shot-2022-01-02-at-20.39.43.png" /> Shoegaze Medieval is based on the ballad Corps Feminin (c.1390) by the ars subtilior composer Solage, examining and reworking its materials within a loose and blurry context. All four instruments fulfil equal roles within the work’s surface, cycling through the song’s pitch material in loosely constructed canons, but with newly conceived rhythms and durations. Commissioned by the Richmond Concert Society and first performed by W37 Saxophone Quartet. <img width="2448" height="2154" width_o="2448" height_o="2154" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33907c45d174c135285bcf5ac81147640c815cd89b0877ea30f93e99170beaea/W37.jpg" data-mid="127995636" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33907c45d174c135285bcf5ac81147640c815cd89b0877ea30f93e99170beaea/W37.jpg" />