patternbook
patternbook are Frances Knight piano and accordion, Heledd Francis-Wright flutes, Nadia Tewfik-Bailey violin, and I. It is a new project in rehearsal at the moment and launching in January 2023. I am writing a set of open instrumentation pieces for us. The first of these, patternbook 1 is downloadable here.
You can hear us improvising together below.
Learning to Live...again..
Commissioned by https://www.sparkedecho.org/
A piece honouring and soothing the trauma experienced by military veterans experiencing PTSD. It features in Electric Medway here; https://electricmedway.co.uk/events/hope/learning-to-live-again-by-maureen-wolloshin/
Learning to Live...again...
Underscore
I'm in the process of devising a guided free improvising practice which is influenced by David Leahy's music based Underscore. Hear David talking about this practice and see an extract of an Underscore performance I undertook here.
Ayub and the Tobacco Factory commissioned by Bl!ndman Collectief and performed at Wintersound Festival. The piece accompanies and complements a silent video made in Iraq at The Tobacco Factory, Sulaymaniah in September 2022. Performances in Belgium and Holland in 2023.
Ayub and the Tobacco Factory silent video
Performance extract; Wintersound Festival 2023
