Naomi Pinnock – The Field is Woven (World Première)

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John Blackburn

Some beautiful sounds in there, chords of lovely color and voicing and finely balanced dissonance—a good ear at work–but the composer seems content with the sounds themselves rather than how they’re employed. Repetition and undulation have their place and can used productively towards a greater end. Here they sounded like the ends themselves, their eventual tedium leavened finally by the bowed vibes, itself a pretty sound too casually self-content.

As a whole, I am aware of exquisite sound and aural beauty, but were that these were employed in the service of a deeper music beyond mere sound. Subsequent listenings might reveal subtleties of instrumentation and harmony, but there seemed little more going on to reward the listener.

I say this constructively, for the composer has such a splendid ear that I’d like to hear it applied to a piece of greater ambition and substance. I shall seek out other works and thank you for the helpful pointer.

John Blackburn

I didn’t listen superficially, and I appreciate the longer-form elements you describe, but apparently you found more musical meaning in those elements than I.

[…] simple beauty. The same could be said for Naomi Pinnock‘s The Field is Woven, a piece that, as i’ve written previously, articulates a remarkably palpable sense of drama in its careful juxtaposition of chords (bringing […]

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