string quartet 2022, by Tim PARKINSON

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string quartet 2022 is a revised and rewritten version of string quartet 2019 which was conceived during my creative fellowship at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre in Reading, UK.

During this residency I was invited to make multiple visits to the extensive archive of Samuel Beckett materials, to make a response to it, and to keep a journal, the link of which is below. Also in residency at the same time from 2018-19 were writers Eimear McBride and Robert McCrum.

At the end of my residency I wrote the string quartet 2019. During a performance the performers and the music being performed are encased within a large box. The performers begin seated at the centre of a 3x3x1.8m flatpack box. The five sections of the music correspond to the raising of the walls of the box around the performers by two stagehands. The first section is open. At the second section the rear wall is raised. At the third section the left and right sides are raised. At the fourth section the front is raised and the quartet is hidden from view. At the fifth section the lid is placed on top, the music continuing for another 4 minutes. The five sections each consist of two iterations of solo, duet and quartet. string quartet 2019 was first performed on 7th November 2019 by the Plus Minus Ensemble at the Bulmershe Theatre, Reading, UK.

My immense thanks are still there for everyone who made this possible, to Steven Matthews for his mentorship, and Lisa Clark who turned the image of a box into a reality, and to everyone at the archive which is a intensely inspiring place. Also I will be forever indebted to the willing first performers of the Plus Minus Ensemble (Aisha Orazbayeva, Mira Benjamin, Katarzyna Ziminska, Stephanie Tress) and director Mark Knoop.

string quartet 2022 is a substantial clarification of the thinking behind string quartet 2019. This quartet may also be performed with (or without) without the box. The five sections on this recording are at 0'00", 3'58", 7'02", 12'07", 15'18". This is the first recording, performed here by the Ligeti Quartet. My thanks go to them for their enthusiasm for the work and recording process, and for their suggestion of the recording venue.

samuelbeckettcentre.weebly.com/blog/musician-and-composer-tim-parkinson-reflects-on-becketts-work-and-archive

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released June 2, 2023

The Ligeti Quartet - Mandhira de Saram, Patrick Dawkins, Richard Jones, Val Welbanks

Recorded by Benedic Lamdin at Fish Factory Studio, London, October 2022

Mixed and mastered by Newton Armstrong

With thanks to the support of the Vaughan Williams Foundation

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