The image above shows King Richard and Queen Anne of Bohemia on a wall painting in St. Mary's Church, Lutterworth. These characters were connected with John Wyclif's patronage there. This work was commissioned as part of the Millennium celebration for the town; Lutterworth Grammar School is my Alma Mater. Three movements span the history of English choral music and attempt to glimpse its future...

Performed at "Lutterworth Millennium Festival" May 2000

Strange-Charmed is the only representative of electroacoustic music from the 1990s to appear on the MIT Electronic Music Studios 25th anniversary CD (Digital Rewind). Invited by Prof. Barry Vercoe (CSound) this work sought to express some of the poetry of various particle interactions and energy fields in the Standard Model of modern physics, with gestures corresponding to collisions and textures that imply latent energy that is sometimes resolved by conversion to particles and sometimes emerges from dense particulate activity. We also hear hints of Empedocles' Elements that arise at a few moments in the piece thus expressing, in metaphor, the emergence of familiar processes from the unfamilar world of the fundamental particles.

Strange-Charmed is a collaboration conducted entirely over the internet. All the sound materials, sequences and compositional ideas for the piece were exchanged using the computer networks between sites. Thus this piece was composed simultaneously in London, Edinburgh and Cambridge Massachusetts and, thus, was an experiment in collaborative Internet music production.

Performances: MIT, ICMC 2000 (Berlin), Harvard Music Dept. (Cambridge, MA)