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Performed by Gina McCormack & Friends
Flux Alluvia, by Borders-based composer, Greg Harradine, has been partly shaped using sensory data from artist Mark Zygadlo’s Water Organ, a sound installation and kinetic sculpture that travelled sections of the river last summer. Part church organ and part catamaran, the Water Organ’s sensors measure the temperature, speed and turbidity of the water, as well as recording the direction of the river flow, in order to create musical sound. Greg Harradine has used this data to influence the ebb and flow of the melody, the tempo and the keys of his composition and has combined this with his own impressions of the Tweed to create a unique collaboration between composer and the river itself.
Flux Alluvia has been written for string sextet and comprises three movements – The River Was, The River Is and The River Will Be– linked to particular stretches of the River Tweed at Peebles, Kelso, and Norham in Northumberland, each of which Greg visited to take in the atmosphere before writing the piece. As well as the river itself and the sounds of the Water Organ, Greg’s inspiration also included the age-old metaphor of a flowing river representing the passage of time.
Concert will also include Richard Strauss’ Sextet from "Capriccio" and Brahms Sextet in G major
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Flux Alluvia, by Borders-based composer, Greg Harradine, has been partly shaped using sensory data from artist Mark Zygadlo’s Water Organ, a sound installation and kinetic sculpture that travelled sections of the river last summer. Part church organ and part catamaran, the Water Organ’s sensors measure the temperature, speed and turbidity of the water, as well as recording the direction of the river flow, in order to create musical sound. Greg Harradine has used this data to influence the ebb and flow of the melody, the tempo and the keys of his composition and has combined this with his own impressions of the Tweed to create a unique collaboration between composer and the river itself.
Flux Alluvia has been written for string sextet and comprises three movements – The River Was, The River Is and The River Will Be– linked to particular stretches of the River Tweed at Peebles, Kelso, and Norham in Northumberland, each of which Greg visited to take in the atmosphere before writing the piece. As well as the river itself and the sounds of the Water Organ, Greg’s inspiration also included the age-old metaphor of a flowing river representing the passage of time.
Concert will also include Richard Strauss’ Sextet from "Capriccio" and Brahms Sextet in G major
Get Tickets
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