BBC TOTAL IMMERSION: IRIDESCENCE
ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE
Where: Milton Court Concert Hall
When: February 2025
A commission for the BBC Total Immersion series, these vocal-electronic miniatures imagine a haunting cybernetic future. They form part of a larger electroacoustic song cycle based on Richard Brautigan’s All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace.
I worked closely with peers at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to create these three pieces for solo female voice and live electronics. I composed all sung material, generating the nonsensical text through dadaist text cut-ups of the poem.
Vocal scores composed by Annie Chown
Electronics by Frankie James and Taha Kagzi
Singers (in order) - Lucy Joy, Tiger-Lily Jonathon, Cassia Begg
Recorded and filmed by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama