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Composer: Harry Whalley
Conductor: James Lowe

Entangled Music is in five parts or movements, with each movement starting with a short dialogue that introduces some of the ideas and themes of the impending section. The titles are mainly implicit in GEB.

The violin melody of this introductory section is the other part of the conversation Unaccompanied Achilles. This melody is also a more or less unaltered quotation of another piece called Mödius Loop which was inspired by J.S. Bach’s ‘Crab cannon’ by a Musical Offering, BWV 1079.
Symbol Shunting - Ensemble

The finale is the most energetic section and has motifs and ideas combined from the rest of EM. The most important aspect of this section is the competition for your attention as a listener towards different parts of the ensemble.

Brian Felsen wrote the following about his composition View from a strangers gallery, ‘it mirror(s) the pandemonium of activity in the brain, in which different layers of activation operate simultaneously, and often 'at odds' with one another’. This sentence helped me crystalize my own view of how EM can be put in the context of the work since GEB.

Conductor: James Lowe
Violin: Christopher Jones
Violin Kaija Lukas
Viola: Kay Stephen
Cello: Anna Menzies
Contrabass: Andres Kungla
Flute: Alasdair Garrett
Horn in F: Eneko O'Carroll
Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet: Alex South
Oboe, Cor Anglais: Arelene Cochrane
Bassoon: Graeme Brown
Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet: Pete Furniss
Cello: Clea Friend
Horn in F: Patrick Broderick
Piano: Svetosvlav Todorov
Piano: Paul Harrison

This was part of my major work towards a PhD in Composition from the University of Edinburgh.