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a common method: quartz

from imagined method by Lauren Redhead

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a common method has an extra-musical influence: this piece was commissioned by the Clothworkers Consort of Leeds in combination with the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology at the University of Leeds and Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, to commemorate the centenary of the discovery of X-ray crystallography by William and Henry Bragg. The two movements, that can be performed together or separately, are titled ‘quartz’ and ‘rock salt’ after the two molecules whose structure was first observed by the Braggs using X-ray crystallography. Today, this method is used to study a wide variety of things, but Dr Arwen Pearson—one of the scientists I worked with in the project—explained to me that despite this, all X-ray cyrstallographers are ‘united by a common method’: a statement with obvious parallels for musicians, and from which the piece draws its title. The quartz movement of the piece asks the choir to combine voiced and unvoiced phonetic sounds, mirroring the patterns of data achieved by the method of X-ray crystallography, that in themselves in some ways resemble a sound wave or spectrogram.

Live performance on 22.06.2019 at 'Sounds Ancient Sound Modern' at St Mary's Church, Platt.

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from imagined method, released August 23, 2019
The Cantate Choir
Conductor: Robin Walker

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i am a composer, sound artist, and experimental performer in the UK

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