The Earth Defeats Me

For 2 sustaining instruments and partition concrete.<br>Premiere:<br><em>Shock of the New, Perth, 2015.<br>TENOR Conference, Anglica Ruskin University, Cambridge UK, July 2016.<br>Forum Neue Musik in der Christianskirche, Hamburg, Germany, November 2017.</em><br>Due for release on Room 40 in November 2018.<br><br>This piece was co-composed with French music concrete artist Lionel Marchetti. It is scored for two sustaining instruments and an audio track created by Marchetti, which you can hear on its own here.<br><br>The work is performed on the Decibel ScorePlayer ipad application. The file contains Marchetti's audio file synchronised with the score - you will need to run the audio from the ipad into two bass amps.<br><br>All other instructions are in the score. If you need help with how to upload the score into the player, go here.<br><br>This is a partner piece to another piece by Cat Hope/Lionel Marchetti, 'The Last Days of Reality' for bass flute and tam tam, composed in 2018. A digital an hard copy of the score is available from Material Press.