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
Echosymbiont
He Hath
Led Me
Politics of
the Imagination
Stop Small
Boats
A Single Tree
Her Name
is Sorrow
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 While
Others Sleep
Two Baptisms
Maeshowe Scrawls
Sir, we wish to see Jesus
The Pearl I-II
The Pearl I-III
bluesilver, rust
The Great White Throne
Ripples on a Sea of Glass
Miniature for String Quartet