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
OMAV​
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A collection of seventy graphic scores for solo or multiple players. I created them as a mediation practice after working with dancers. I used ink and pen, on small, rectangles of paper.
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OMAV was featured in Canadian Music Centre magazine ‘Notations’ Winter 2016, Ontario Canada.
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To request a selection of scores, please get in touch here
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Performances:
18/02/19 Dan Thorpe (piano) // Wheatsheaf Hotel, SA, Thebarton, Australia
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18/04/18 Memed Ansa (clarinet and electronics) // Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Tbilisi, Georgia
01/04/18 Heather Roche (clarinet), Patrick Dawkins (violin) and Valerie Welbanks (cello) // Deptford Town Hall, London
14/01/18 Dan Thorpe, (prepared piano) at Estalagem Lounge, Madeira
10/01/17 Karin Hellqvist (violin) // A Capela de São Sebastião, Madeira
12/05/16 OMaV // Semi Precious (DJ/Producer) // Amersham Arms, New Cross, London
01/04/16 OMaV // Semi Precious (DJ/Producer) // Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London
10/01/16 Quinn Dougherty (electric guitar), Katherine Betteridge (violin), Chiara Percivati, (bass clarinet), and Mike Vernusky (electronics) // Cine Sol, Madeira
WP: 22/11/15 OMaV // Boonie Lander (voice) and Steven Leffue (soprano saxophone) // Conrad Music Center, UCSD, San Diego
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