Selected worklist
Expedition (2012- )
1. “Ibn Fadlan meets the Vikings” Première: Walk: 1-xii-12, Baghdad to Volga river/Bank St to Burngreave Cemetry. Performance: Charlie Collins (drums), John Jasnoch (ud), Peter White (voice &c.), Stephen Chase (misc.), 7-xii-12, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.
2. ”Zheng He sails the Western Oceans” Première: Walk: 26-i-13, Nanjing to Hormuz/Bank St to Mushroom Lane. Performance: Mick Beck (bassoon & whistles), Stephen Chase (erhu & misc.), 1-ii-13, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield. [hear]
3. ”Stanley meets Livingstone” Première: Walk: 2-iii-13, Bagamoyo to Ujiji/Bank St to Bole Hill Rec. Performance: Acid Police & Stephen Chase (misc.), 8-iii-13, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.
4. ”Humboldt ventures in the Equinoctial Regions” Première: Walk: La Coruna to Cumana/Bank St to Hickmott Rd, 6-iv-13, Sheffield. Performance: Nathan Bettany (misc.) , Scott McLaughlin (bowed cymbal), Stephen Chase (misc.), 12-iv-13, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield. [hear]
5. ”On sledge & horseback to outcast Siberian lepers” Première: Walk: 18-v-13, St Petersburg to Viluisk/Bank St to Darnall Train Station. Performance: Jon Collin (guitar & whistle), Nathan Bettany (oboe &c.), Fiona Kennedy & Luke Poot (the bears), Stephen Chase (erhu &c.), 24-v-13, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.
the field
like luminous advertisements not quite (2012- ) spatial piece for 3 acoustic guitars, electric pocket violin, electric cello
music for teeny duchamp (2010-11) toy piano(s)
INTERIOR LIGHTING (2011- ) guitar and tuning devices
out-of-doors suite (2012- ) pieces for 1 or more walkers
Rayuela [score], Skyline Music, piece-in-time-to-pace-of-walking, Fred & Ginger Piece, taking a walk for a line Weather Report, Weather Report 2, pulse-in-time-to-pace-of-walking, tuning call 1 & 2, running & whistling, humming & walking, Yodel Walk, resound, tunnel walk, la-la-la walk, walk now man, instep
Galileo
Galileo 1A (2010) 2 or more sliding instruments [score]
Galileo 1B (2011) 2 or more sliding instruments [score]
Galileo 2A (2011) 2 or more sliding instruments [score]
Galileo 2B (2012) 2 or more sliding instruments [score]
Galileo 3A (2012) 1 or more people with sustaining instruments [score]
Galileo 3B (2012) 1 or more people with sliding instruments [score]
Galileo 4A (2012) 4 performers: 2 with sliding instruments, 2 with flashlights [score]
a book of actions
People in Glass Houses (2004) 1 or more performers. Première: Ross Parfitt and Stephen Chase, 19-v-10, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield. [score]
Scissors Paper Stone (2004) 2 or more performers [score]
Variation on a Theme by John Lely (2008) any instrument(s) (with headphones&loop) [score]
Ineluctable (2009) text piece. Première: (version for performer and audience) 25-vi-2010, Premier Inn goods entrance, Bank Street, Sheffield. [score]
Feet. Can’t. Fail. (2009) any performers [score]
“This is called ‘The View from the Balcony’, you can download a copy for your own personal use whenever you want” (2010) any instruments/sound sources [score]
Bas & Busby Fall Out (2011) 2 or more people [score]
((schmetterling)) (2011) text piece [score]
san sukumi ken (2011) 2 or 3 people [score]
Baldessari’s Harmonies (2012) 2 – 6 performers [24']
Jandl Songs cycle-in-progress for 4+ voices (texts by Ernst Jandl and Michael Hamburger) [hear an extract]
wrong (2007) Première: Exaudi/J.Weeks, 9-iii-09, Southampton.
oberflächenübersetzung (2007) Première: Tongue Stuff, 28-iii-09, London.
ein gleiches (2007)
lied/song (2007) Première: Exaudi/J.Weeks, 9-iii-09, Southampton. (Recorded on HCR06CD)
suchen wissen (2007/08) Première: Exaudi/J.Weeks, 9-iii-09, Southampton. (Recorded on HCR06CD)
mein (2007) Première: Exaudi/J.Weeks, 9-iii-09, Southampton. (Recorded on HCR06CD)
im park [szene] (2007) Première: Exaudi/J.Weeks, 9-iii-09, Southampton.
bericht über malmö (2007)
liegen, bei dir (2007) Première: Exaudi/J.Weeks, 9-iii-09, Southampton.
ach, und ich dachte (2007)
trost in wolken (2008) Première: Exaudi/J.Weeks, 29-x-09, Cutting Edge, The Warehouse, Waterloo, London. (Recorded on HCR06CD)
the speciality of the house (2008/10) Première: Exaudi/J.Weeks, 29-x-09, Cutting Edge, The Warehouse, Waterloo, London.
why can i not (2008) Première: Exaudi/J.Weeks, 2-x-09, National Portrait Gallery, London. (Recorded on HCR06CD)
glass (2009) Première: Exaudi/J.Weeks, 15-iii-09, ECAT, Edinburgh.
als ich nach haus kam (2011)
lohengrin, london: victoria station, Das Ohr, homage à brancusi, der hauch, auf dem land
ukelelevents
anotherjohnwhitediscounttakeoff (2007) ukuleles [score]
UKALULI (2009) ukuleles, tapes/radios. Première: Naomi Anderson, Angharad Davies, John Lely, Neil Luck, Tim Parkinson, Michael Parsons, Stephen Chase, ‘Music We’d Like to Hear’, 1-vii-09, St Anne & St Agnes, London. [score]
Ukelelevent #3 for Alison Knowles (2009) ukuleles, beans, paper. Première: Joe Kudirka, Ross Parfitt, Stephen Chase, 21-iv-2010, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield. [score]
for g org s p r c, uk l l v nt #4 (2009) ukuleles [score]
ELELEKUSHUN (2009) ukuleles [score]
Banjolely (2009) banjuleles/ukueles. Première: Makiko Goto (koto), John Lely (banjulele), Tim Parkinson (ektara), Stephen Chase (uke), ‘Music We’d Like to Hear’, 1-vii-09, St Anne & St Agnes, London. [score]
Ukulalien (2009) ukuleles [score]
Brucie’s Double (2011) ukuleles, public space [score]
ukululluby (2012) ukulele(s)
The Esk nr Middleholms (2012) 2 natural horns with rowboat
Installation for Bank Street (Ineluctable) (2011) text-sculpture-sound installation. Première: contribution to ‘Quadrophonic’ group exhibition with Ian Baxter, David Devaney and Ross Parfitt, 24-v to 18-vi-11, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.
“…rise and go…” (2010- ) installation performance. Première: Stephen Chase, iii to vi-2010, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.
No title; this isn’t it either (2010) 3 performers with portable feedback devices, baby monitors and architecture [ca.10']. Première: Ross Parfitt, Philip Thomas, Stephen Chase, 25-iii-2010, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.
No title; this isn’t it either 2 (2010) a number of people in a large public space with megaphones. Première: members & associates of Ensemble Zwischentöne with Otto Beck’s Orchester für Direkte Demokratie, 11-xii-2010, Schloßplatz, Berlin [extract here]
No title 3 (2011) 4 or more performers, whirling tubes, whistling, resonant spaces
A sequence of objects which to him appears to be A CARAVAN OF FELLAHEEN, a circus, begins a slow migration to the right vanishing point on the horizon line (2009/10) improvising ensemble. Première: The Gated Community, 24-v-2010, The Lescar, Sheffield.
Two pieces (2009) melodica(s) [scores]
Landscape (with string quartet & passers-by) (2009) installation for string quartet [45']
Piano Dances (2007-08) solo piano [14']. Commissioned by Philip Thomas. Première: 25-i-2008, Persistence Works, Sheffield [hear an extract]
Warp & Weft (2007) improvising ensemble. Première: Damo Suzuki & The Gated Community, 15-xi-2007, Bar Abbey, Sheffield.
Wet Glasses (2006) any voices [score]
Assommons les pauvres (2006) 24 voices [5']. SPNM commission. Première: BBC Singers/James Morgan (cond), 11-vi-2006, Wilton’s Music Hall, Spitalfields Festival, London. Recorded by the BBC for future broadcast.
Combiné 3 [KINO] (2006/…) actor, instruments, live electronics [12']. SPNM commission. Première: Sound Intermedia, Tim Gill, Clive Williamson, Anthony Shuster, 13-v-2006, LSO St Luke’s, London.
second ensemble song (2006) 4+ clarinets, 3 percussionists (friction sounds) [11'30"]. [score]
every.thought.should.recall.the.debris.of.a.smile (2004/…) clarinet, electric guitar, cello, piano, vibraphone/percussion [11']. Commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for Apartment House. Première: Apartment House, 24-xi-2004, St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield.
Vexifications harmonique (2004) 3 melody instruments and 1 or more harmony instruments. Première: Students of Sheffield University, 6-vi-07, St John’s Church, Ranmoor, Sheffield.
The Bucketrider (2003/…) devised music theatre (4 actors, clarinet/bass clarinet, cello, lighting) [7']. SPNM commission. Première: acting students from Rose Bruford College, F.Cross (cl), M.Atkinson (vc), 21-x-2003, Rose Theatre, Sidcup.
Trio: Avrupalilastirilamiyanlardanmisiniz? (2003) cello, piano, percussion [8']. Première: Apartment House, 25-xi-2003, Huddersfield. [hear an extract]. 1st prize Yorkshire Young Composers Workshop, Brian Ferneyhough & Apartment House.
Feld Music (Varifications V) (2003) flexible ensemble. Première: CoMA Yorkshire Ensemble/John Habron (dir.), 12-vii-03, St Thomas’ Church, Huddersfield.
DUET (2002) clarinet, cello, 2-3 percussionists [11']
Side/Walk/Shuffle (2001) string quartet(s) [7' or more]
Noise is kinder (2001) prepared piano [5']. Commissioned with funds from Yorkshire Arts by Philip Thomas for the concert series ‘John Cage and 21st Century Britain’. Première: P.Thomas, 9-ii-2001, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield.
love of the clear dark (1999) oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, piano [8’]. Commissioned by Sheffield Music School. Première: students of Sheffield Music School, 10-xii-99, Bannerdale Centre, Sheffield.
Nocturne (after De Selby) (1999) fl.ob.bCl-hn.tpt.tbn.tba-pf-2vn.vc.cb [3½’]
Blurred Visions (1997-98) flexible ensemble (SATB ranges) [7’]. Première: members of CoMA and London Sinfonietta/Simon Foxley (dir.), ‘State-of-the-nation’, 21-ii-98, Purcell Room, London.
Movement (1997) flute & cello [6’]
