Lear - Small Measure of Peace
Part of the score for a production of Edward Bond’s Lear. The director envisaged a dark score so I decided upon a largely electronic approach, with atonal elements. Of the nineteen pieces written for the production (seventeen between scenes, one before the play and one for the play’s conclusion) eighteen made use of the same percussion and bass parts - this was a conscious effort to bring across the repetitious nature of the rise and fall of Lear’s wall. This piece is from the end of the second act - at the beginning of the third act Lear is taken in by a family and achieves some temporary peace.
Composition for electronic instruments and samples
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