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Electronics

solo instrument and electronics

CARAPACE

Flute and live electronics/ fixed media. Recorded in Oxford by Leandro Landolina (2024). Listen

SKEW

Viola and live electronics (ultrasonic ranging sensor). Premiered in Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford by Ynyr Pritchard (2024). Recorded in Oxford by Ynyr Pritchard (2024).

Also performed: Retune Festival (2024); Modern Art Oxford (2024); Sound/ Image Festival at University of Greenwich (2024). Listen

COSMOSIS

Cello, fixed audio, and transducer (2023). Premiered in Organ Room at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (2023). Recorded in Birmingham by Molly Welling (cello) and Jess DeLacy (studio engineer) (2023). Listen

MODULO

Drum kit and fixed audio (2023) Premiered in Centrala, Birmingham by Aidan Hammond (2023). Recorded in Birmingham with Aidan Hammond (drum kit) (2023). Listen

MICROCOSMIC

Vibraphone and fixed audio (2022). Premiered in Royal Birmingham Conservatoire by Meng-Hua Lin (2022). Recorded in Birmingham with Meng-Hua Lin (vibraphone) and Jess DeLacy (studio engineer) (2023).

Also performed: Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (2023); Club Together Club Radio, Berlin (2024).

Released by: Club Together Club (Bandcamp). Listen

TABATA

Cello and live electronics (2022). Premiered in Royal Birmingham Conservatoire by Kamo Maraba (???). Recorded in Birmingham with Kamo Maraba (cello) and Jess DeLacy (studio engineer) (2022). Listen

RAPPORT 

Clarinet and fixed audio (2021). Recorded in Birmingham with Will Hammond (clarinet) (2021). 

Released by: NMC (2023). Listen

chamber instruments and electronics

REFRACTION

Ensemble and fixed media. Premiered in Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford by Ensemble Isis (2023).

METAMORPH

11 Saxophones and live electronics. Premiered in Bradshaw Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire at International Saxophone Chamber Festival (2023). 

LOCOMOTION

2 Violas and fixed audio (2021). Recorded with Ynyr Pritchard (2021).

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acousmatic

RUST AND REVERIE

Stereo (2025). Soon to be premiered at BEaSTFEaST 2025.

STEP INSIDE

8-channel (2024). Premiered at New Hybrids at Jacqueline du Pré, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford (2024). In collaboration with Joni Brown (film).

GEO-BIO-ANTHRO

Stereo (2023).  Premiered at CODA Festival 2023. 

Also performed at: MUSLAB Electroacoustic Music International Exhibition at Museo Anthropólogico Y de Arte, Ecuador (2023).

POLAR

Stereo (2023). Premiered at CODA Festival 2023.

Acoustic

solo instrument

CARAPACE

Flute (2024). Recorded in Oxford with Leandro Landolina (2024). Listen

SKEW

Viola (2024). Premiered at RETUNE Festival in Holywell Music Room, Oxford by Ynyr Pritchard (2024). Recorded in Oxford with Ynyr Pritchard (2024).​ Listen

chamber

GLOSSA

Tabla and piano (2024). Premiered at the Henfrey Prize for Composition, St Catherine's College, Oxford by Helen Anahita Wilson and Shahbaz Hussain (2024).

CEASTER

SSAATTBB (2024). Written for BBC Singers.

FLUCTUATIONS

Chamber ensemble (2019). Premiered in the Concert Hall at Royal Northern College of Music (2019).

REQIUEM FOR DAISY

Flute and guitar (2018). Premiered in the Concert Hall at Royal Northern College of Music (2019).

Performances

2024:

Skew for Viola and Ultrasonic Ranging Sensor - University of Greenwich Sound Image Festival 2024

Glossa for Tabla and Piano - 7th Annual Henfrey Prize for Composition at St Catherine's College, Oxford 

Step Inside - Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford

Skew for Viola and Ultrasonic Ranging Sensor - Modern Art Oxford 

Skew for Solo Viola (Acoustic) - Retune Festival at Holywell Music Room, Oxford 

Microcosmic for vibraphone and electronics - Club Together Club Radio, Berlin

Skew for Viola and Ultrasonic Ranging Sensor - EMPRes at Denis Arnold Hall

Multimedia at Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda's College Oxford

 

2023:

Refraction for Ensemble Isis - Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda's College Oxford

Geo-Bio-Anthro - MUSLAB Electroacoustic Music International Exhibition at Museo Anthropólogico Y de Arte Contemporáneo, Ecuador

Polar and Geo-Bio-Anthro - CODA Festival

Cosmosis for Molly Welling - Into the Quadrivium at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Metamorph for 11 saxophones - International Saxophone Chamber Day in Bradshaw Hall

Modulo for drum kit, contact microphones and electronics - Storm Comin' at Centrala

 

2022:

Microcosmic for vibraphone and electronics - Bradshaw Hall

Microcosmic for vibraphone and electronics - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Tabata for cello and pedal - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

HOLLY GOWLAND

composer - electronics - musicologist

©2021 by ViTA, Holly Gowland

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