Sarah Westwood
Sarah Westwood
I use memory and intuition as a source for my music, and am drawn toward mixed media/interdisciplinary projects, for dance, video, theatre, installation or concert works. I make both acoustic and electronic music, sometimes incorporating found objects and sounds. In my current research practice, I use the memory of composing for dance as a compositional process. This feedback results in a memory of a memory for new compositions ...
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Sarah Westwood
composer//sound artist//musician
I use memory and intuition as a source for my music, and am drawn toward mixed media/interdisciplinary projects, for dance, video, theatre, installation or concert works. I make both acoustic and electronic music, sometimes incorporating found objects and sounds. In my current research practice, I use the memory of composing for dance as a compositional process. This feedback results in a memory of a memory for new compositions ...
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Sarah Westwood
composer//sound artist//musician
kindred
piano solo
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Kindred (adjective):
1: of a similar nature or character : like a kindred spirit
2: of the same ancestry: kindred tribes
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I am fascinated by the connection between performer and their instrument, and thought abstractly about the idea of a pianist and the piano as sharing a 'kindred-ness'.
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Each movement is a reflection of my time spent on a Creative Retreat at The Red House in early 2020 (supported by Britten Pears Foundation). Whilst there, I brought with me a collection of keyboard works by Jean-Philippe Rameau, and so Kindred (together with my experiences at Aldeburgh) also has a conscious heritage to specific baroque keyboard works of Rameau.
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From this, I wanted my work to also have a kindred ancestry to the past, pairing them with particular short works by Rameau, whilst maintaining their own distinctive personality.
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This work is dedicated to pianist Jelena Makarova.
Performances:
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07/09/20 Jelena Makarova @ 1901 Arts Club London / Bitesize Proms in support of Help Musicians UK
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