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death songs — dripping, pouring 

flute quartet

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first performance: Bled Contempoary Music Week,

25 June 2026

performers: .abeceda ensemble

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Saigyō 

double bass, tape

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first performance: Opus Amsterdam, 29 November 2024

performer: Gašper Livk

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having been breathed out 

contrabass clarinet, tape

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first performance: forthcoming

performer: Scott Lygate

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from winter into winter

piano, tape

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first performance: Musicon, Durham 26 April 2023

performer: Ben Smith

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crane \ snow

piano, tape

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first performance: St Giles Cripplegate, 18 October 2021

performer: Ben Smith

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islands

piano, tape

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first performance: Musicon, Durham, 07 June 2021

performer: Ben Smith

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listening to the self outside itself

piano, tape

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first performance: 18 Jun 2020

performer: Rolf Hind

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thirty-six views of the same thing

clarinet, violin, cello, electric guitar, percussion

 

first performance: Silk Street Music Hall, 29 June 2018

performers: Plus-Minus Ensemble

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alone; measuring (sonnet)

soprano, mezzo, countertenor, tenor, tenor bass

 

first performance: GSMD Workshop, 25 January 2018

performers: EXAUDI

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burnt

solo piano

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first performance: City, University of London, 20 April 2018

performers:Ian Pace (piano)​

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traces of oil (night music)

solo cello

 

first performance: Borough New Music, 7 November 2018

performer: Yoanna Prodanova (cello)

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alone; silently

female voice, string trio

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first performance: Wigmore Hall, 23 May 2017

performers: Patricia Auchterlonie (voice), Ionel Manciu (violin), Alex McFarlane (viola), Yoanna Prodanova (cello)

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destroyed autumns, talking

piano, cello, tape

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first performance: Silk Street Music Hall, 15 May 2017

performers: Robert Reid Allan (piano), Lucy French (cello)

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some kind of cadence (for Newton)

solo piano

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February 2017

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you burn me

solo piano

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first performance (revised version): Milton Court Concert Hall, 9 February 2017

performer: Ben Smith (piano)

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the ineluctable modality of the audible

(Water Music)

solo piano

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first performance: City Summer Sounds, 12 June 2014

performer: Mark Knoop (piano)

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