James Saunders

I’ve been working on a few new pieces over the first half of the year, developing some ideas involving looping structures that have been present in a number of pieces recently. I’ve been using nested loops to create multiple ways to move around a set of materials since the quartet I made for the Ardittis in 2013. More recently, this has developed into more maze-like puzzles, where the player(s) must find particular routes through the material in order to satisfy certain conditions. There are four pieces so far, starting with an organ solo made for Huw Morgan and followed by a birthday present for Penny and Anna Norton (violin and piano), a piano solo for Dante Boon, and a new trumpet piece for Joe Hamlen. There’s a recording of the organ piece by Huw on bandcamp and I’ll upload the scores soon.