Nigel Morgan - Worklist, 2015

Ascending Form (from Music for Sculptures)tenor saxophone in Bb8 minEDGE (from TOUCHED BY MACHINE?)wind quartet (and optional drum machine)15 minFragmentssoprano sax and piano8 min“A shape of inner moment;a bronze, containing wimplethat frames no face.”“The idea of Fragments was to present a short, fullynotatedscore full of potential for extension throughimprovisation. It was to be a piece that could exist ashappily in a 'set' during a jazz club performance as in themore formal programme of an art music concert.”The Terrain of Inferenceoboe and vibraphone5 min“In Riley’s paintings it is the viewer's position in, andmovement across, the pictorial space that appears tomake the image 'move' playfully. TOUCHED BYMACHINE? attempts something of the same, only withsound and the listener.”Axiomssaxophone quartet with optional keyboard,bass and percussion15-20 min“The I Ching is an excellent example of an axiomaticsystem: a set of rules, which cannot, by definition, bereduced to a system with less rules.”Ricercaresbrass sextet12 min“This short study explores how clusters may be used toaccompany a melodic line. The music plays throughtwice: first, in a chromatic tonality; second, remappedonto a traditional Greek scale. Imagine the oboe as theGreek aulos and the vibraphone as a lyre.”DUO (from TOUCHED BY MACHINE?)bass trombone and percussion(version for horn and percussion available)10 min“The four movements of DUO take their titles from agroup of Bridget Riley’s paintings from the mid 1960s:Intake, Shift, Movement in Squares and Hero.”“These four Ricercares look back to those sixteenthcentury Venetian pieces and also to the origin of the word'ricercare' meaning 'research or experiment'.”Quintetpiano and winds12-15 min“… a particularly languorous summer afternoon beside ariver in the Yorkshire Dales … a name, often entreated,rhapsodized upon, repeated like a mantra orincantation…”14