The New Traditional Composer

Billy Jackson and his The Wellpark Suite mark the beginning of the proliferation from noted composers such as William Marshall or J.S. Skinner into a movement of new larger scale composition and experimentation from traditional musicians in Scotland. In the past 30 years over 100 new works have been produced and this continues to increase with support from schemes such as the Celtic Connections New Voices Series and the Distil Showcases and workshops.

Stuart Eydmann and myself are compiling a database of new works, their composers and performers - if any composers would like to contribute their information please get in touch.

Composers with information to contribute to the database of new compositions please email me at lori@loriwatson.co.uk with any of the following information:

Title of work
Composer
Commissioner
Performance dates/years
Instrumentation
Performers
Record/Document
Description

Thanks.

Graphic Scores for Traditional Musicians

I am experimenting with Graphic Scores as a platform for traditional musicians to be immediately creative in their own musical accents. By putting readers and non-readers on the same level these pieces give performers the freedom to play their own sounds within a structure. These pieces plays to the strengths of traditional musicians in listening and responding to each other in performance.

Here are some examples, any thoughts?

Idea & Realisation - some thoughts

The Score is not the Work
The Performance is not the Work
The Development is not the Work
The Idea is the Work

The Idea is not the realisation
The Development is not the realisation
The Score is not the realisation
Is the Performance the realisation?
Probably Not

Meeting minds and developing the Idea & the Work is the way to realise it in Performance