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Imaginary Workscapes: Creative Practice and Research through Electroacoustic Composition
(Ashgate, 2015)
Compositional activity in electroacoustic music is central to the research culture of that field. Electroacoustic tools for sound manipulation and transformation allow the creation of sound materials that present new ...
The Cape Jeremy Affair
(Composers Edition, 2015)
The Cape Jeremy Affair is an experimental music theatre composition for 2 musicians and 2 laptop computers. It is created from a text: a 1969 sledge report from the British Antarctic Survey that described an arduous, and ...
Summerhouses
(Composers Edition, 2015)
The collection of compositions in 'Summerhouses' explores the microsound worlds within found sound. These compositions were created during my fellowship with the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences at the University ...
False Start
(Composers Edition, 2015)
http://composersedition.com/composers/craigvear/ce-cv1fs1
The title of this piece is borrowed from a Jasper Johns painting from 1959. Johns' works have been a point of inspiration for many decades, due to his abstraction ...
Three Last Letters
(composers Edition, 2015)
Three Last Letters is a music composition that imagines the last moments in the minds of Scott, Wilson and Bowers before they die in a tent, alone on an Antarctic Ice Shelf in 1912. It was created using facts and suppositions ...
On a Balcony
(Composers Edition, 2015)
This composition is inspired by my personal experience of sitting on a balcony in Antarctica, overlooking the frozen George VI sound which lies in-between Alexander Island and Palmer Land. This was an extraordinary place, ...
The Unchanging Sea
(composers Edition, 2015)
The inspiration for this composition comes from two sources, D.W. Griffiths' film 'The Unchanging Sea' (1910), and it's inspiration, Charles Kingsley's poem, 'The Three Fishers', used here as libretto. The central theme ...
Making Photographs: Planning, Developing and Creating Original Photography
(Bloomsbury, 2015-02-26)
Highlighting the distinction between making, rather than taking photographs, Making Photographs introduces a structured way of developing creative solutions to the work you want to make, fusing personal ideas with knowledge, ...