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The
title of this CD comes from a listening game played by young
visitors to the Portmore Nature Reserve in Northern Ireland
who would be invited to take a 'magic stone', grasp it, and
with their eyes closed see what they could hear.
In the moment of stillness offered to them by the game, sounds
that would usually be ignored would seep into the consciousness
of the listeners. As a result the players would become aware
of not only the detail of those sounds surrounding them but
also the wonder of them, and before long imaginations would
run riot....
In like manner, the compositions on this CD have been written
to inspire a certain type of listening. All of them have in
common an interest in a sense of place or time and many either
take their inspiration from, or make use of, sounds from the
surrounding environment.
The music seeks to entice new appreciations of the sonic landscape
and aims to (re)connect the listener with its musicality and
the stories within it.
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'Magic
Stones' title track won in the New Media category at the
British Composer Awards 2006
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The track 'Disappear' from this CD won in the same category
at the British Composer Awards 2005 |
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RMusic 002 |
| compositions
relating to a sense of time and place |
UPC:
634479214615 Robert
Jarvis |
| as
heard on: Resonance FM, BBC Radio 3's 'Late Junction'
and Radio 4's 'Endangered
Sounds' programme |
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