Eve Harrison

Interference was commissioned by House of Bedlam/Larry Goves for North West New Music festival 2016 and premiered by Carl Raven on 28th January at Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. It was a real pleasure to work with such an incredible player. His album is just out if you want to hear more - http://www.carlraven.com Programme note: Clara Smith’s (1894 - 1935) Deep Blue Sea struck me as a great starting point for exploring the interaction between musicians and technology given the scratchy recording quality paired with gutsy singing and saxophone solo. Noises that could interfere with music making in my day to day life become a positive force and accompany and drive the live saxophone solo as it takes over from the recording. The other samples are a gamelan. According to Javanese mythology, the god who ruled as king of all Java from a palace on the Maendra mountain (c.AD 230) invented the gong to communicate with the other gods. Two other gongs were invented for more complex messages, completing the original gamelan set and also happening to be very close to the sound of my email alert. Eve Harrison, Jan ‘16