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
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
2022
kindred, part two
piano
Solo ca. 12'
Every Branch Of Coral Will Hold Up The Moon
solo viola (amplified)
Solo ca.12'
2021
cello and electronics
Solo ca.9'
solo piano
Solo ca.4'
2020
night made purple in gold
classical guitar solo and hand held percussion
Solo ca.4'
viola, cello and bass clarinet
Chamber ca. 4'
piano
Solo ca. 12'
coming together
multiple players (4 +)
cable veins (revised from 2016)
piano
Solo ca. 5'30" - 7'00"
2019
electronics
Installation
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 solo
Solo ca. 3'50"
piano, violin and cello
Chamber ensemble ca. 5'10"
septet, narrator and conductor
Music-theatre, chamber ensemble, electronics ca.15'
2018
Into the Blank Expanse of Space
bass flute, piano and live electronics
Based on poetry by Georgie Lorimer
Duo and electronics ca. 6’30"
electronics for dance
In collaboration with Eleven Farrer House
Dance ca.35'
flute / clarinet / saxophone / keyboard /and found objects
Chamber ensemble ca. 10'
bass clarinet, violin and cello
Chamber ensemble ca. 5’
electric violin, electric guitar and electronics
Duo ca. 3’
Of Minerals and Ventricles
soprano saxophone, violin, voice and flute
Chamber ensemble ca. 8'
electronics
Installation
2017
electronics for dance
with Eleven Farrer House
Dance ca. 60’
flute solo
Solo ca. 6’
toy piano
Solo ca. 5’
flute, clarinet, cello and piano
Chamber ensemble ca. 8’
2016
piano and electronics
Solo ca. 8’
The Hands We Used to Make Were Clay
guzheng and string quartet
Chamber ensemble ca. 9’50”
seventy miniature graphic scores
Solo or multiple players ca. varies
2015
flute and percussion for dance
with choreographer Mbulelo Ndabeni and Phoenix Dance Theatre
Dance ca.8'
Okeanos
flute, shakuhachi, oboe, cello, koto and hand held percussion Chamber ensemble ca.5’
WP: 5/01/2016 Okeanos Ensemble
>2015
Theatre music
two flutes, violin, clarinets, harpsichord and guzheng
Theatre ca. 28' 2013
WP: 21/07/2013 Bangor New Music Ensemble
The Lady of the Lake
pierrot ensemble
Chamber ensemble ca. 5’ 2013
WP: 2/21/2013 Onix Ensamble Mexico
Bolventor
found objects and sounds, electronic and acoustic
A mermaid installation
Installation 2013
WP: 10/05/13 PJ Hall, Bangor University, Wales
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
Imaginary Dot
string quartet
Chamber ensemble ca. 5’ 2012
WP: 20/03/2012 players of BBC NOW
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
Photo: Hivernale, by Sarah Westwood