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Tulloch House Night Vigil

from Pianos of the Night by Haworth Hodgkinson

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Working with the sampled piano sounds in Piano Machine set me thinking about some of my own work with pianos many years ago, in particular a piano piece called Oneirospheres VI dating from 1983 that I remembered being particularly pleased with at the time.

I found the old recording, cleaned it up as much as I could, and sampled some isolated sounds from it. These samples were then looped and treated as in Piano Machine. This piece could equally well deserve the title Piano Machine, but, perhaps because I had a closer connection with the original sounds, I felt it had more the feel of a human ritual to it. At the time I recorded the original sounds I was living in Tulloch House, the remotest and most unloved of the ten blocks that made up David Russell Hall, itself the remotest and most unloved hall of residence at the University of St Andrews. It was a place of many long night vigils, and since Tulloch House is long demolished, along with the rest of David Russell Hall, I decided to let its memory live on in the title of this piece.

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