Together / Apart, by Kay Rowan

Together / Apart

by Kay Rowan

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At the start of 2020, the world struggled with the COVID-19 Coronavirus. We were suddenly unable to leave our homes, and our 'normalacy' was replaced by a wide-spread fear and insecurity over what will happen next.

The idea behind this music was to see whether you could create chamber music from a distance - whether collaboration was possible, even with the strict lockdown measures in place. Behind a gentle pulse of piano chords, the music is built on small, repeated fragments and cells of music from talented musicians spread out far and wide. These musical fragments were improvised around, and recorded in isolation, without hearing what other people had come up with. This creates a substantial amount of indeterminacy, and the final compositional result could only be approximated from the outset.

Digital instruments collide with acoustic instruments, from an Accordion to an Oud, and the result is a gentle, shimmering exploration of the artistry of these musicians.

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released April 23, 2020

This composition could not exist without the remarkable contributions of a number of talented people.

Noa Davies, Victoria Fenech, Christa Ventresca, Adam Wallace, Marianna Wolpert, Elizabeth Baumberg, Luutsche Ozinga, Rock Lee and Laura Midgley.

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Kay Rowan London, UK

Kay Rowan (she/her) - also known as ghostgirl - is a transgender composer, songwriter, word(er) and actor.
She has composed extensively for both the concert hall and the stage, as well as for a number of films, and draws on influences ranging from American minimalism to the traditions of English folk music. Find ghostgirl at: ghostgirlmusic.bandcamp.com ... more

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