“The sound of Ghanaian drumming has punctuated my life from being a baby, and it is unbeatable (forgive the pun). I am very attracted to the natural rhythms of life, so that my percussion writing is often experimental, and within the experimental, sometimes an invitation to explore musique concrète. Whilst orchestral percussion is fine for the orchestra, homemade instruments, and sounds made by the body are just as appealing. Even the larynx as a membrane could easily classify the voice as pitched percussion, actually”
Frances Gill.
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2016 | Pitched bells written for Playing the Bäckahäst (scored for harp and pitched bells) PART AVAILABLE
– Playing the Bäckahäst is a composition for Annika Grünwaldt Svensson’s sketches of her concept of the Bäckahäst as a bell-harp. Published on the YouTube channel called ‘Flute Origins’ as the soundtrack for Oland’s Water from the Stars, produced using Note Performer (in Sibelius).
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2015 | Dance for Cajsa (for 14 cm long swan-wing-ulna bone, 14 cm long swan-wing-radius bone, pre-recorded acoustic material, and anyone else who wishes to play) SCORE AVAILABLE
– musique concrète composition, for a swan-wing-ulna bone, and a swan-wing-radius bone (both 14 cm long), to include, in performance, a section composed, performed, and recorded by Frances Gill, mixed and produced by John Swartling, called Bone tubes. First performed with Frances Gill (bones), Gjermund Kolltveit (jew’s harp) and Birgitta Ridderstedt (voice and body) 18th February 2016, at a concert in honour of Cajsa S. Lund, within the Symposium, The Archaeology of Sound, Acoustics and Music at Linnaeus University (Växjö campus), Sweden, 18th - 19th February 2016.
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2015 | 14 cm (for 14 cm-in-length metal tubes) GRAPHIC SCORE AVAILABLE
– experimental composition, first performed in the landscape at Sandby borg, Öland (Sweden), by artists from Kulturell Tankesmedja (cultural think-tank) 24th April 2015. Originally designed as a live flute-embouchure experiment it was realised/defined in performance de la musique concrète as being equally percussive.
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2012 | ‘teacup’ percussion in Slurp (for three loud speakers)
– Slurp is a sound installation (using sounds from a Roland Digital Piano FP-3, with acoustic material) for sculptures by Annika Grünwaldt Svensson in her garden exhibition called Te Hos Hattmakaren, during Tingsryd Konst & Hembygdsrunda, 1st - 2nd September, 2012.
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2005 | Percussion (including kit) written for The Battle of Stamford Bridge: The Musical (scored for children’s choir, with piano, bass, percussion, strings and flute accompaniment) PARTS AVAILABLE
– The Battle of Stamford Bridge: The Musical is a composition comprising 12 songs plus Overture and Battle music.
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2004 | Drum written for Mediaeval-inspired Tunes for Flute (scored for flute, with harp and drum accompaniment) PART AVAILABLE
– Mediaeval-inspired Tunes for Flute is a series of arrangements using – for their source – transcribed and edited music transcriptions of the earlier, and mid-fifteenth century (by Thurston Dart, and Brian Trowell respectively).
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2003 | Ramdala (for Ghanaian dondo, kpanlogo, and brekete drums, and traditional Brass Band) SCORE, and PARTS AVAILABLE
– a composition inspired by an African drumming piece called Bintim, for an African-Western collaboration drawing together two musically-stylistic idioms in one piece with the idea being that the brass players are primarily accompanying the drummers (not the other way round). The piece was first performed by Aklowa’s Ghanaian drummers, and the English brass instrumentalists of Meltham and Meltham Mills Brass Band, in a recording at Takeley Primary School (Essex, UK), 5th - 6th July 2003, for the music album Kpoo Keke Come Let Us Unite, produced by Chris Bullen, High Barn Records (UK).
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1989-1990 | Food Time (for percussion) SCORE, and PARTS AVAILABLE
– a composition for percussive sounds made by the body (in 5 parts). Food Time is one of the 12 pieces from the Children’s Songbook Homowo: A musical experience through Ghana illustrated by Felix Cobbson.
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1989-1990 | Percussion ostinatos composed for the songs: - Kee yeo yai baaye yele naa ye sumioo; Working the Land; Dzidzi le niebee; Harvest Time; Meni hewo gaobla yee sumo meti foee; Journey for the Festival; Ke Akwele sumo; Twins; Amina oo esia mina; Kpaashimo; and End of Season SCORE, and PARTS AVAILABLE
– from the Children’s Songbook of 12 pieces called Homowo: A musical experience through Ghana illustrated by Felix Cobbson.
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