After the Storms

In today's lunchtime recital at St Andrew's Cathedral, Intuitive Music Aberdeen premieres a new piece by Haworth Hodgkinson, After the Storms, which reflects on the sequence of powerful windstorms that swept across the North-East of Scotland during December 2023 and January 2024. Haworth Hodgkinson made recordings of the sounds of these storms, using them as the basis for soundscape compositions. After the Storms is based on some of the music written during Storm Gerrit on 27 December 2023, adapted here for live instruments: melodica, bowed psaltery and harmonium. The original version for synthesizers can be heard on the album Storm Gerrit (High Moss, 2023).

Also on the programme is Arnage Friday, originally a keyboard improvisation from the album The Arnage Sessions (High Moss, 2017), but here reimagined as music for three players.

This performance marks the sixtieth birthday of composer Haworth Hodgkinson, who has been active in the performing arts scene in the North-East of Scotland for thirty of his sixty years.

Recitals are followed by a buffet lunch. Donations to Cathedral funds are gratefully received.

If you are interested in performing for a future recital: please email: cathedralatnoon@gmail.com

About Intuitive Music Aberdeen

Intuitive Music Aberdeen is an ensemble specialising in music created by the performers in response to text or graphic scores or unconventional notations.

Performances range from sequences of short pieces including poetry to extended single pieces reflecting the seasons or the times of day.

Please contact us if you would like to arrange a performance.

Performers

Haworth Hodgkinson (recorder and harmonium)

Mandy Macdonald (melodica and piano)

Colin Edwards (bowed psaltery)