Nye Parry: Concert Music
Among works conceived primarily for concert presentation or home listening are both electroacoutic and instrumental compositions.
Fuzzy Logic was commissioned by the LSO Discovery Project to combine their community gamelan group with professional musicians from the LSO and Ambisonic surround sound technology. It was premiered at LSO St Lukes in May 2005.
Chanson was composed for the dB Ensemble and features the vocal talents of Steve Halfyard and the flute playing of Jeremy Woodruff. Inspired by the sound poetry of Ernst Jandl, Chanson also features a complex computer part programmed in Max/MSP which improvises along with the live performers.
The Seasons is a continuous hour long cycle of compositions for eletronically manipulated sounds. The stasis of Summer and Winter are contrasted by the growth and decay of Spring and Autumn. Hear excerpt (spring)
Grand Junction uses recordings of steam pumping engines from the Kew Bridge Steam Museum in rhythmic interplay, exploring the contrast between recognisable and abstracted sound. The Museum was also the site of the installation Living Steam. Hear excerpt
Lilacita is a purely instrumental work for Balinese Gamelan (Gong Kebyar). The result of a private commission for the group Lilacita, of which Nye is a founder member, the piece combines traditional techniques such as interlocking Kothekan patterns with western ideas such as three part cannons, breaking down the Gamelan into unusual subgroupings. Hear excerpt
2005 Two Songs of William Carlos Williams Voice, Tape, Piano, Sax, Colourscape 05
2005 Fuzzy Logic Balinese Gamelan, Vln Vla Vcl 2tbns and electronics LSO St Lukes
2003 Chanson, Soprano, Alto Sax, Max/MSP
2003 Lilacita, Balinese Gamelan (1st Perf St Lukes Centre London, March 03)
1998 The Seasons, 1st perf. Colourscape Festival 1998 , Futura 99, Hessischer Rundfunk, excerpts: Lewisham Arthouse, ISEA 98 Chicago, Gallery 101 Montreal
1996 Sundew, Irish Harp and Tape, 1st perf City University, Sept 96
1995 Terminal Greys, Tape Piece, 1st perf Purcell Room, March 96, Isleworth Festival
1994 Summer at Giverny, State of the Nation 97, BBC Radio 3, (Here and Now)1997
1994 Behold my beautiful Eyes, finalist ACREQ Electro- Clip Competition 1994, 1st perf: ACREQ Montreal 5 June 94 (live broadcast)
1994 Grand Junction, 2nd Prize Barry Anderson/BBC Radio 3 Prize 94, KlangArt 97 selected Bourges 1996, Futura 96, braoadcast: France Musique 98
1993 The Libido, freed from the external World etc. Javanese Gamelan & Tape, first perf: Striking Out Festival, York 22 August 1993
1992 Ushabti, Tape Piece, first perf: Lyons Concert Hall York, 26 June 92
1992 The Names of Tutankhamun, Soprano & Piano, first perf: Lyons Concert Hall York
1990 Utan, Electronic Valve Instrument & Tape, recommended Friends of the Earth/EMAS competition 1990, first perf: Chichester College, 6 May 94
1989 Violano Virtuoso, Viola, Prepared Piano & Chamber Organ, first perf: 1986 Pajanne, Piano Quintet, first perf. York Contemporary Music Festival 86
