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 ...
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 ...
Sarah Westwood
composer//sound artist//musician
...in progress
MANTUA-MAKER
for radio
joy + desiring
string quartet
Sixteen Revelations on Divine Love
Ray
electronics for dance
Rare Earth
installation
works
Solo
kindred, part two
piano
Solo ca. 12'
piano
Solo ca. 12'
Every Branch Of Coral Will Hold Up The Moon
solo viola (amplified)
Solo ca.12'
cello and electronics
Solo ca.9'
night made purple in gold
classical guitar solo and hand held percussion
Solo ca.4'
viola solo
Solo ca. 3'50"
piano
Solo ca. 5'30" - 7'00"
flute solo
Solo ca. 6’
solo piano
Solo ca.4’
toy piano
Solo ca. 5’
Duo
Into the Blank Expanse of Space
bass flute, piano and live electronics
Based on poetry by Georgie Lorimer
Duo and electronics ca. 6’30"
electric violin, electric guitar and electronics
Duo ca. 3’
Chamber
speaking within | fragmented lines
five guitars and electronics
Quintet and electronics ca. 10’
Things you don’t yet know you feel
voice and string quartet
Chamber ensemble ca. 5'45"
viola, cello and bass clarinet
Chamber ca. 4'
piano, violin and cello
Chamber ensemble ca. 5'10"
septet, narrator and conductor
Music-theatre, chamber ensemble, electronics ca.15'
flute / clarinet / saxophone / keyboard /and found objects
Chamber ensemble ca. 10'
flute, clarinet, cello and piano
Chamber ensemble ca. 8’
Of Minerals and Ventricles
soprano saxophone, violin, voice and flute
Chamber ensemble ca. 8'
The Hands We Used to Make Were Clay
guzheng and string quartet
Chamber ensemble ca. 9’50”
Okeanos
flute, shakuhachi, oboe, cello, koto and hand held percussion Chamber ensemble ca.5’
Selected for Royal Music Association concert
WP: 5/01/2016 Okeanos Ensemble
Theatre music
two flutes, violin, clarinets, harpsichord and guzheng
Theatre ca. 28'
WP: 21/07/2013 Bangor New Music Ensemble
The Lady of the Lake
pierrot ensemble
Chamber ensemble ca. 5’ 2013
WP: 21/2/2013 Onix Ensamble Mexico
Imaginary Dot
string quartet
Chamber ensemble ca. 5’ 2012
WP: 20/03/2012 players of BBC NOW
Multiple players
coming together
multiple players (4 +)
seventy miniature graphic scores
Solo or multiple players ca. varies
Dance/theatre
electronics for dance
In collaboration with Eleven Farrer House
Dance ca.35'
electronics for dance
with Eleven Farrer House
Dance ca. 60’
flute and percussion for dance
with choreographer Mbulelo Ndabeni and Phoenix Dance Theatre
Dance ca.8'
waterFACE
for dance - flutes, violin, clarinets, cello, harpsichord and percussion
Dance ca. 16’ 2012
WP: Bangor New Music Ensemble and Cat Westwood
Dance film housed in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, as of 2013
Raincloudchambermusic
electronics for dance
with dancer Cat Westwood performance 'Grey Stem’
Dance ca. 15' 2010
WP: 10/02/2010 Electric Lodge Los Angeles
The Best Kind of Cinema is Perceived with Your Eyes Closed
electronics for dance
with dancer Cat Westwood
Dance ca. 12' 2008
WP: 2/06/2008 Laban Conservatoire of Dance
Installation
electronics
Installation
electronics
Installation
Bolventor
found objects and sounds, electronic and acoustic
Installation 2013
WP: 10/05/13 PJ Hall, Bangor University, Wales
Photo: Hivernale, by Sarah Westwood