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17 February 2022 Comments Off on Colin Riley ‘Stone Pulses’ – ‘Earth Voices’ final mov. Premiere & ‘Stream Shine’ Performance Views: 835 CE News

Colin Riley ‘Stone Pulses’ – ‘Earth Voices’ final mov. Premiere & ‘Stream Shine’ Performance

On Saturday 12 March the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Crawford Phillips gives the World Premiere of Colin Riley’s Stone Pulses, the fifth movement of Earth Voices for orchestra.

Watch Colin Riley telling us the background to Earth Voices, which has been gradually premiered by the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, each movement at a time since September 2021.

Can a mountain have its own pulse? Yes, here it can! There are huge massifs that Riley portrays in her last movement, with granite-hard textures, a life of her own. Before the music turns its gaze inwards, towards pulsating human heartbeats.

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Philippa Mo © Gullwing Photograhy

Also on Saturday 12 March at 7:30pm (UK time) Colin Riley’s Stream Shine, a concerto for violin and orchestra, will be performed by Philippa Mo and the Torbay Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Gonski at The Ariel Centre, Totnes, Devon, UK. This is part of the COMA Festival of Contemporary Music 2022. Colin is the featured composer during this weekend in Totnes with movements from his ever-popular COMA commission Impossible Worlds being workshopped and performed. Colin will also give a series of talks, podcasts and interviews.

Stone Pulses and Stream-Shine are both celebratory pieces. They marvel in the sheer beauty and magnificence of nature, and attempt to capture something of this in their sound-worlds.

But like most of my music there is a balance of contradictions at play. The outwardly serene and spiritual passages that begin and end Stream-Shine let loose a series of playful and capricious romps for the main middle section of this single-movement concerto. Similarly in Stone Pulses, the slow-building power and grandeur that portrays the permanence and vastness of deep-time, finally gives way to the painful fragility that ends the piece.

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Colin also releases the fifth single from his forthcoming album Isolated Pieces. The album is an experiment in working in isolation; a construction from the independent creations of 27 different musicians.

Dislodged features 7 of those contributors. As well as Colin’s trademark glitchy loops there is gritty processed trumpet from Andy Hall, sonic-textures from cellist Natalie Rozario, funky bass from Ruth Goller, wonky-percussion from Dave Smith and Stephen Hiscock as well as grainy electronics from Jeevan Rai and traces of quirky piano riffs from Liam Noble. A musical cocktail.  

Earth Voices is proudly available for perusal and purchase through Composers Edition website, as well as other works by Colin Riley.

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