Abstract / Description of output
Lowood I is a 'simple' graphic score for solo fiddle. Composed in 2014, the score was workshopped with fiddle player Adam Sutherland (www.adamsutherland.co.uk) on 6th May 2014 and performed to an audience at Tolbooth in Stirling in the Distil Showcase (www.projects.handsupfortrad.scot/distil/about-distil/) on 16th May 2014. The score was published online in 2015 by ISLE Music Scotland.
This piece addresses four main aims: advance the understanding of contemporary traditional music practice (and improvisation as part of that); provide inspiration and experience for creative and skills development to traditional musicians; make something beautiful and provocative that can be creatively performed by readers or non-readers of standard notation; demonstrate the variety of creative and stylistic understanding in traditional fiddle players.
The composition and performance were reviewed by Neil McFadyen on folkradio.co.uk, 16 May 2014. There was also interest in the score from cartographers.
This piece addresses four main aims: advance the understanding of contemporary traditional music practice (and improvisation as part of that); provide inspiration and experience for creative and skills development to traditional musicians; make something beautiful and provocative that can be creatively performed by readers or non-readers of standard notation; demonstrate the variety of creative and stylistic understanding in traditional fiddle players.
The composition and performance were reviewed by Neil McFadyen on folkradio.co.uk, 16 May 2014. There was also interest in the score from cartographers.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | online |
| Publisher | ISLE Music Scotland |
| Media of output | Online |
| Size | A3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | Distil Showcase 8: Concert of new and experimental music - Tolbooth, Stirling, United Kingdom Duration: 9 May 2014 → … https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/distil/distil-showcase-2014-the-music/ |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- performance
- graphic score
- composition
- music
- traditional arts
- experimental
- solo
- fiddle
- creativity
Type (for Non-textual outputs)
- Music
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Distil 2014 – Tolbooth, Stirling (Live Review)
16/05/14
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Lori Watson
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures - Lecturer in Scottish Ethnology
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