The Earth Defeats Me

For 2 sustaining instruments and partition concrete.

This piece was co-composed with French music concrete artist Lionel Marchetti. It is scored for two sustaining instruments and an audio track created by Marchetti, which you can hear on its own here.The work is performed on the Decibel ScorePlayer ipad application. The file contains Marchetti's audio file synchronised with the score - you will need to run the audio from the ipad into two bass amps. You can also play the film whilst reading the score - it has the partition concrete embedded in it.
All other instructions are in the score. If you need help with how to upload the score into the player, go here. This is a partner piece to another piece by Cat Hope/Lionel Marchetti, 'The Last Days of Reality' for bass flute and tam tam, composed in 2018. A digital an hard copy of the score is available from Material Press.

In 2021, Karl Ockelford made a film for this work, which was premiered in live performancer in Malmo, Sweden, in 2024.

PERFORMANCES

Premiere: Shock of the New, Perth, 2015. Performed by Cat Hope and Lindsay Vickery
TENOR Conference, Anglica Ruskin University, Cambridge UK, July 2016.
Forum Neue Musik in der Christianskirche, Hamburg, Germany, November 2017.
Feature4d on the 'Last Days of Reality' album on Room 40, 2018.

Malmo, Sweden, December 2024.