Your Future, Ore Smelter;
Better Future, Wharf Spike
2007 | 9'
Commissioned by St Paul's Sinfonia
for orchestra
2.2(I=ca.II=ca).2.2 – 2.1.1.0 – strings
Your Future, Ore Smelter; Better Future, Wharf Spike is a piece about creating narrative meaning from arbitrary structures. In the work, two systematic iterations of the same three-part canon are shaped and moulded into a tale of seafaring, prophecy, mining, time-travel and ancient metallurgy. Your Future, Ore Smelter; Better Future, Wharf Spike was first performed by St Paul's Sinfonia conducted by Andrew Morley at St Paul's Church, Deptford, London, UK on March 16, 2007.