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The readings inspired this piece, my first parafantasy, an intricate and profound improvised invention on a chromatic theme, woven around the readings. The music forms a complex sonata or fantasy, an intense inner exploration. I feel that it responds to and augments the paragraphs, which all speak about how we interpret our experience and attribute meaning to it. I hope you will think so too.

Recorded by the writers and used with their kind permission: Andrea Damic, Ailish Sinclair, Cheryl Snell, Karen Southall Watts, Lucy Welch and Sherri Eckworth. Thanks to Richard Hearn of paragraphplanet.com. Click on the title above to hear.

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INTRODUCING:

A HOMERTON PARADE

I am so excited to introduce you to this fabulous video suite, composed in 2020 lockdowns for remote production by students of my former Cambridge college. They have made a completely captivating production, which you can now watch HERE.

It was filmed in 2021 and put together in 2022. The acting, playing and cinematography are by students and fellows of the college, including poet-in-residence Dr Mariah Whelan and director of music Dr Daniel Trocmé-Latter, with cameo role by honorary fellow Dame Evelyn Glennie!

A Homerton Parade is a musical setting of college archive documents from 1894 up to the 1918 pandemic, which is eerily similar to our recent experience. Along with the extraordinary strictness and camaraderie of the then all-female teaching college, we find hilarious musical jokes and student diaries. Find out plenty more here (and see the video).

Events

... Here are two current themes in Writings and Projects:

-Music for each season: a series of articles using a wide range of music, with all listening-links, to delve behind the obvious about what each season of the year means to us, culturally, emotionally and in nature. Latest: Summer Music.

-Rhodri invites you to encounter the unique and life-enhancing work of Geoffrey Bush (1920-98),

putting together helpful writings, events, and recordings for Bush's 100th anniversary year.

Previous events & collaborations:

-September 2021

It's the little things

What are the little things that make the sun shine inside you? In times of of darkness, Rhodri is delighted to share this heartwarming track, just completed for your enjoyment, where the voices of different people answering this question are combined with music and sounds.

Free to hear on Soundcloud and also featured by multi-arts sharing resource In the Time of Pandemic.

-May 2021

Three 'Conservation Pieces'

This intimate and captivating online piano recital is now available to watch for free! Swanland I, Swanland II and Extinct from Conservation Pieces were expertly interpreted by Natalia Williams-Wandoch (@NataliaWWPiano) in a very unique recital titled The Swan's Way given for the unique nexTus Festival, 9th-22nd May 2021. The music is choreographed with stunning photography by Paula Cooper (@iceniphoto) and a poem by scientist-poet Lynne Wycherley. The programme also included very sincere and spirited performances of Boulanger, Brahms and Bach. It was featured again within September's Groeneveld Festival in the Netherlands. Rhodri is still feeling delighted to have been able to collaborate with these artists in this beautiful way.

Full video (short recital) and trailer video, plus Natalia's most recent filmed piano recital

-September 2020

'Art has to be Contagious' variations

My contribution to Adrian Oswalt's* 'contagious' theme (!)

used in the eponymous exhibition in Tübingen, Germany.

-Here is my viola & vibraphone final variation.

-The wide-randing gallery of contributions can be heard here.

*"The melody [...] will travel round the globe with an invitation for musicians to pick it up in their own musical culture. (...) At the end of this project, a chain will have been forged which hopefully will symbolise the connections people have with each other."

2019 & early 2020

Rosalyn Hart &

Krassimira Jeliazkova-Jones violins

Four Polish Carols

Recital for two violins, St Peter's Church, March, Sat. 7.12.19, 11am.

Sarah Garford and Allegro Strings

Concertino for clarinet and strings

St Peter's Church, March, 9.11.19

Natalia Williams-Wandoch

piano

Swanland I & II

from Five Zoological Pieces;

Fen Scene

piano recital at St Peter's Church, March, 19.10.19

and Yatton Music Society, 29.02.20

& in 2018:

'OUT OF CONTROL'

Rose Newbury, Andrew Tait, Carol McEvoy &

Rhodri Williams-Wandoch

Clarinet, piano, cello, viola

Interrupted Introduction

Malachi

On Strings (ensemble & improvised dance)

Inconclusive Music

in collaboration with

20 photographic artists, dir. Mark Woods-Nunn,

and

Jodie Scully, dance

St Peter's Church, March, 10.11.18

In support of FND Action, for epilepsy/seizure awareness

Allegro Strings

Fugue on 'The Holly and the Ivy'

Wisbech Grammar School, December 2018

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