Smouldering embers, alive with the heat of a dying fire. Raging embers, white hot. Still embers with a surface alive, with the changing colours of heat. Cracking embers. Flickering embers. Life-giving warm embers.
These are just some of the images I have of embers, and which were things I thought about when composing this piece. Although there is nowhere in the music that any of these images can be said to be represented as sound, they all played a role in fueling my musical imagination for the piece.
Music in Ovingdean, Inside No. 49
Belinda Jones- piano
Josie Ellis - double bass
Kurtag - Message-consolation a Christian Sutter
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2
Koussevitsky - double bass concerto in E minor op. 3, 1st movement.
Luke Styles - Embers
1. Emergence
2. Praise to the eternity of heat
3. Crackle
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The FIRE cycle (of which Embers is a part) has been supported by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund, the Marchus Trust and an anonymous donor.
