Year: June 2017
Duration: 3:20”
Performance History: Written for the Gildas Quartet as part of the Composer’s Course at the St. Magnus Festival in Orkney. Workshopped by Gildas Quartet Jun 2017.
About: A musical response to a poem by Katharine MacFarlane, Maeshowe Scrawls is a stately contemplation of the majestic chambered cairn on Orkney, which is rudely interrupted by the scrawling of visiting vandals who graffitied the ancient site
Navigate Chamber Works
Honnold
Shock/Stasis
Lucan Duets
Coimheascar
/Struggling Light
Rasp
The Union is
our God
Woolgathering
Refractions
Cross-Purposes
Common Places
Engines of
Babel
Five Scenes
Enturfment
Hywel
Perelandrian Drift
Dancing
Two Baptisms
Maeshowe Scrawls
Sir, we wish to see Jesus
The Pearl I-II
The Pearl I-III
The Bennu Bird
The Great White Throne
Ripples on a Sea of Glass
Miniature for String Quartet