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
...in progress
MANTUA-MAKER
​for radio
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joy + desiring
string quartet
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Sixteen Revelations on Divine Love
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Ray
electronics for dance
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Rare Earth
installation
works
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For further information, including recordings, please click on the titles. Details of work in light grey are available on request. For any enquiries please email: sewestwood [at] live [dot] co [dot] uk
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2022
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kindred, part two
piano
Solo ca. 12'
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Every Branch Of Coral Will Hold Up The Moon
solo viola (amplified)
Solo ca.12'
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2021
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cello and electronics
Solo ca.9'
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solo piano
Solo ca.4'
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2020
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night made purple in gold
classical guitar solo and hand held percussion
Solo ca.4'
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viola, cello and bass clarinet
Chamber ca. 4'
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piano
Solo ca. 12'
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coming together
multiple players (4 +)
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cable veins (revised from 2016)
piano
Solo ca. 5'30" - 7'00"
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2019
electronics
Installation
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speaking within | fragmented lines
five guitars and electronics
Quintet and electronics ca. 10'
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Things you don’t yet know you feel
voice and string quartet
Chamber ensemble ca. 5'45"
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viola solo
Solo ca. 3'50"
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piano, violin and cello
Chamber ensemble ca. 5'10"
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​septet, narrator and conductor
Music-theatre, chamber ensemble, electronics ca.15'
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2018
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Into the Blank Expanse of Space
bass flute, piano and live electronics
Based on poetry by Georgie Lorimer
Duo and electronics ca. 6’30"
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electronics for dance
In collaboration with Eleven Farrer House
Dance ca.35'
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flute / clarinet / saxophone / keyboard /and found objects
Chamber ensemble ca. 10'
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bass clarinet, violin and cello
Chamber ensemble ca. 5’
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electric violin, electric guitar and electronics
Duo ca. 3’
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Of Minerals and Ventricles
soprano saxophone, violin, voice and flute
Chamber ensemble ca. 8'
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electronics​
Installation
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2017
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electronics for dance
with Eleven Farrer House
Dance ca. 60’
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flute solo
Solo ca. 6’
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toy piano
Solo ca. 5’
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flute, clarinet, cello and piano​
Chamber ensemble ca. 8’
2016
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​piano and electronics
Solo ca. 8’
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The Hands We Used to Make Were Clay
guzheng and string quartet
Chamber ensemble ca. 9’50”
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seventy miniature graphic scores
Solo or multiple players ca. varies
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2015
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flute and percussion for dance
with choreographer Mbulelo Ndabeni and Phoenix Dance Theatre
Dance ca.8'
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Okeanos
flute, shakuhachi, oboe, cello, koto and hand held percussion Chamber ensemble ca.5’
WP: 5/01/2016 Okeanos Ensemble
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>2015
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Theatre music
two flutes, violin, clarinets, harpsichord and guzheng
Theatre ca. 28' 2013
WP: 21/07/2013 Bangor New Music Ensemble
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The Lady of the Lake
pierrot ensemble
Chamber ensemble ca. 5’ 2013
WP: 2/21/2013 Onix Ensamble Mexico
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Bolventor
found objects and sounds, electronic and acoustic
A mermaid installation
Installation 2013
WP: 10/05/13 PJ Hall, Bangor University, Wales​
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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
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Imaginary Dot
string quartet
Chamber ensemble ca. 5’ 2012
WP: 20/03/2012 players of BBC NOW
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Raincloudchambermusic
electronics for dance
with dancer Cat Westwood performance 'Grey Stem’
Dance ca. 15' 2010
WP: 10/02/2010 Electric Lodge Los Angeles
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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
Photo: Hivernale, by Sarah Westwood