Three contrasting pieces from the 1990s; a drone-ish work, a quasi-orchestral piece and a synthy noise reworked in ’03.

Fall 18'43"
15 July '92 - Chingford.
F# drops to F over twelve minutes - with an introduction and an accompaniment. The introduction noise is in fact a 120 voice choir, all the voice of one Amanda Sherwin, recorded in 1980 for a (12 part) choir piece called 'Asylum #9'.

Rahab 14'43"
29 Apr.'03 - Pyhra
This was created for this CD from two of the original studies for Fall : Fall Choir Variants (13.7.92) [06'31"] and Fall Study (29.6.92) [08'17"].
As part of the artwork for the CD cover I used engravings from an old family Bible (published by Cassell. Petter, and Galpin - no date but with a signed entry dated 1851), and the one I used for the back is captioned 'Falling Down of the Walls of Jericho'. It was while reading the story of Jericho I was given the title of the piece.
Within the artwork are framed details of a naked woman, these are a reference to a lady named Rahab, of whom (so the story goes) it was said, 'only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house'. [Joshua, VI.18] (by the way, I'm not actually religious but it's a great Bible.)

Rise (F mix) 45'59"
9 Jan.'97 - Westcott
This is the grand-child of a short percussion piece called 'MX
Rise' ('92) [04'36"], which itself was a version of a set of studies called 'Rise Trials' ('92) [3 x 06'29"]. Then in 1996 a version of this became 'Rising Fugitive' for harp & TV[17'30"], a 1999 CD mix of which [18'24"] can be heard on my 'Television & The Bomb' CD.
Also in '97 there was a version for Irish harp quartet called
'Q3' [14'06"] (not to mention Q1 and 2), a guitar version, and a planned set called 'The Seven Sisters' which to date has not been finished/realized (but you never know). Then of course there is the miniature version, 'Wanted' ('02) [04'09"] created for the 'Details' CD. As to this version, the F in 'F mix' refers to the original idea of creating a Morton Feldman-like piece, but as is usual with my work the piece evolved into something else. I think there might be another one in there somewhere - I like to rework stuff.