Bergen. September 30th 2013 I spent the morning at Valestrand, Ole Bull’s first country house not far from here. I have not gathered my thoughts yet, but here is a taste. Peter Sheppard Skaerved, imagining what Bull might have done-‘The Hazel DellRecorded in the Music Room Valestrand Ole Bull-Et Saeterbesog (improvisation on opening ‘hardanger’ […]
September 27, 2013
In 2012-13, Sadie Harrison produced a sequence of works responding to my drawings and paintings. The full cycle was premiered at Wilton’s Music Hall in September 2013. LINK Now she has begun work on what she calls the ‘second room’. Here is what is emerging (Workshop/Hotel Room Recordings Bergen 27th September 2013) Sadie Harrison-The Writing […]
September 24, 2013
New Music, Old Technology/Old Music New Technology. Today’s composers are inspired by the possibilities offered by the old instruments and instrumental technologies used by performers. Paradoxically, the collaboration between performer and composer often inspires new instrumental technologies and techniques. Peter Sheppard Skaerved explores this contradiction-following on from a presentation he gave at TED Bergen on […]
September 21, 2013
First walk in the Vidden (Bergen) 27th September 2013
September 18, 2013
Sadie Harrison-Gallery (World Premiere-Wilton’s Music Hall September 11th 2013)The Flight of Swallows, Mint tea in an empty Medina, same strand…, ‘Measure for Measure’, the wonder of flying or Time for the night of practise, Return from Lysøen-25/10/12,Sadie Harrison-Gallery (Part 2) (World Premiere), Coffee with Aphra Behn: Westminster Abbey Cloisters, Nur Pünktlich, Sheppard’s Meadow, Two morning lights, […]
September 15, 2013
(Astounding Sounds) Violin – Niccolo Amati 1629
September 15, 2013
Michael Alec Rose-Water Michael Alec Rose-Stone Link to more on the ‘Il Ritorno’ project A lovely addition to the project. I have been contacted by a musician/writer in Iran, Mehdi Aghamohammadi, who has sent me this-a poem made from our first day’s work. How lovely. On Dartmoor with Michael Alec Rose to ‘find’ his new […]
September 10, 2013
September 30, 2013