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Oneirospheres VI

from Pianos of the Night by Haworth Hodgkinson

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Here, to complete the album, is the piece that was the source of all the sounds in Tulloch House Night Vigil.

I applied the name Oneirospheres to nine pieces, all dating from 1983. These were the first extended pieces I had conceived to be played and recorded live in a single take – most of what I had done before then was edited together from fragments. They are also my first pieces to use a rule-based approach to composition. The rules and the basic form of the piece are worked out in advance, but the detailed implementation of the rules takes place in real time during the performance.

The Oneirospheres pieces all share a sense of slowly unfolding dream-like rituals or landscapes, and this one in particular reflects on my impressions of Uzbekistan and Russia, both of which I visited in October 1983. Listening after so many years I hope it's not too fanciful to say that I sense again the dusty grandeur of the Uzbek cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent in the immediate aftermath of an earthquake, as well as the obsessive chiming of Russian bells in Moscow and Leningrad. (Forgive me if I use the names and spellings these cities had at the time – no political implications are intended; that's just the way I remember them!)

This is my original recording, made on a dark autumn night in St Andrews. I've applied some digital noise removal software to try to cut down on tape hiss, and performed some manual suppression of a few bad cases of tape print-through, but essentially it remains faithful to the music I was trying to make in 1983.

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from Pianos of the Night, released July 27, 2016
Music composed, performed and recorded by Haworth Hodgkinson, 1983. Remastered 2016.

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Haworth Hodgkinson Scotland, UK

Composer, improviser and sound artist based in Aberdeenshire and inspired by the landscapes of the North of Scotland. Solo performances often combine poetry with live music. Has worked on many collaborations with writers, dancers, actors, musicians and visual artists. ... more

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