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Work Overview
'Acre', from æcer, an "open field", a measurement of land deemed tillable in one day. Here it alludes in part to the turning over, the tillage, of a musical line - an upward reaching melodic fragment. 'Ringing, still' can be taken in its double sense, as both 'encircling, without moving' and 'sounding, even now'.
Looking upon an open field (or any space), I like to contemplate the three dimensions of time contained within it: traces of the past, glimpses of the future, the slow turn of the present.
In this piece, three layers of music form a sonorous braid. They correspond in my imagination to 'past' (filtered recordings of piano chords), 'present' (a gradual passage of non-tempered sonorities performed by the consort and pre-recorded sounds) and 'future' (aqueous and luminous melodic lines, like a slow-motion breeze, or an image just beyond grasp).
L.I
Work Details
Year: 2023
Instrumentation: Orchestra, pre-recorded sounds.
Duration: 18 min.
Commission note: Commissioned by BBC Radio 3.
First performance: by Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth — 1 Feb 23. City Halls, Glasgow
Performances of this work
1 Feb 23: City Halls, Glasgow. Featuring Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth.
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