The Cambridge Caprices
On the 1st March 2013, I began a new project with a group of composers and musicians gathered at the Music Faculty of Cambridge University. This is linked to my collaboration with Jeremy Thurlow on his ‘Ouija’ for solo violin.
On the 14th March, I returned to Cambridge with Paul Osterfield, who led a wonderful workshop with the composers, exploring the works which the composers are producing, with the help of Jeremy Thurlow and Ian Watts.
3rd March 2013:Already, the composers have started to produce material. Two days after the workshop, the first pieces and sketches start to arrive (3 3 2013). Here’s a glimpse of one of them, Innigkeit by William Cole. For me, there is no greater privilege than getting close to composers’ working processes-so it is fantastic to see these emerge, and to get my first clues from the involuntary expressiveness of the ‘composer’s hand’.
After the excitement of the workshop, we took the prokect over to the victorian splendour of the Divinity School at St Johns College, and alternated the new works with some of Paul Osterfield’s marvellous ’24 Caprices’
William Cole-‘Innigkeit’ (Live at the Divinity School, Cambridge) 15th March 2013
Gregor Forbes-(Untitled) for Violin and Live Electronics (Live at the Divinity School, Cambridge) 15th March 2013