Four Stories, by Horsley & Aveyard

Four Stories

by Horsley & Aveyard

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David Harris Absolutely Beautiful. the closest thing I can relate to that was some friends of mine had friends in Chicago that used a three-story apartment building and recorded on separate floors and I love the idea it's brilliant.

Gordon Chapman-Fox A beautiful, atmospheric recording capturing the full ambience of the Harris.

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New to Set Foot Press, a limited edition CD showcasing a distinctive one-off performance recorded at Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston. Composed by Josh Horsley and Jon Aveyard, who have both featured prominently on Preston Field Audio releases and Preston's cult experimental tape label Concrète Tapes

‘Four Stories’ is a site-specific piece written for string quartet and tuned percussion, taking its name from the Harris' four storey architecture. Performed to a free moving audience, the piece featured an ensemble of six performers, distributed throughout the four elevations of the Harris' grand, circular centred atrium. With views and sonorities perceivable from the third to ground floor, Four Stories represents a unique meeting between music and architecture, that places the audience within the verticality of space.

Throughout ‘Four Stories’, Horsley and Aveyard ebb through the composition's movements, employing extended compositional techniques and making continuous practical use of the buildings exposed, cylindrical verticality, creating an immersive and interactive performance, captured here in this lofty, ambient location recording.

Notated in semi-mobile form, each performer is granted choice, and agency that rewards Four Stories with a balance of calm and unrestraint. Moments of consonance and dissonance furnish the resonant space, with cascading tones and variegated chords articulating its 19th century geometry. This release documents an innovative composition and performance that challenges the conventions of the concert experience and of the relationship between music and architecture. Quite a treasure.

watch a short video edit of the performance here : www.instagram.com/p/CGrY9ReJBj6/?

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released November 6, 2020

Composed by Joshua Horsley & Jon Aveyard

Performed by
Rebekah Okpoti, Violin
Jon Aveyard, Violin
Caitlin Birkett, Glockenspiel
Madeline Rolinson-Lord, Viola
Luke French, Xylophone
Joshua Horsley, Cello

Mastered by Tim Crompton

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