Enclosure The House of Bedlam
Album info
Album-Release:
2021
HRA-Release:
26.03.2021
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Larry Goves (b. 1980):
- 1Goves: Distant Airports05:44
- Claudia Sessa (1570 - 1617):
- 2Sessa: Occhi io vissi di voi (Arr. L. Grove for Alto Saxophone)02:05
- Larry Goves:
- 3Goves: Music Inspired by Siouxsie and the Banshees’ "Suburban Relapse"06:39
- 4Goves: Borneo Rivers05:04
- Matthew Sergeant (b. 1984):
- 5Sergeant: Matters of Matter No. 402:29
- Larry Goves:
- 6Goves: Music for Melody Instruments, Objects & Electronic Sounds03:44
- Sarah Hennies (b. 1979):
- 7Hennies: Growing Block07:05
- Claudia Sessa:
- 8Sessa: Occhi io vissi di voi (Arr. L. Groves for Chamber Ensemble)03:48
- Amber Priestley (b. 1973):
- 9Priestley: With Wholesome Hunger Plenty10:02
- Larry Goves:
- 10Goves: Nehemiah (Extended Version)05:20
Info for Enclosure
From House of Bedlam's release Enclosure, get up close with Stephanie Tress's cello in Occhi io cissi di voi #2 - Larry Goves' arrange of Claudia Sessa's tune. Alternative takes of a saxophone are superimposed on themselves accompanied by low alto flute and cello playing on the tension of playing together and play apart.
Royal Philharmonic Society-nominated composer, Larry Goves is at the cutting edge of the UK’s contemporary music scene. His 'band', The House of Bedlam, is a rare example of a classical composer-led group, which fuses Goves' boldly original voice with the kind of dynamic energy and spirit found in a rock band.
His use of extended performance techniques and uncompromising electronic sounds combine to create a rich variety of textures and evocative harmonies. Goves’ dark scores, his sinuous melodic lines and his obvious appreciation for Welton’s measured poetic style results in a deeply thoughtful collaboration, a unique sound-world and an album of heart-felt beauty and honesty.
“A tour de force... [the score] built up an orchestral embarrasses de richness in many layers, with sounds from several key players looped and transformed by electronics...The piece was engrossing for every moment of its 35 minutes…” Ivan Hewett (The Telegraph) about the London Sinfonietta Collective performance of Larry Goves’s Things that are blue, things that are white, things that are black at the QEH 2010
“Goves’ ‘Springtime’...a beautiful setting of an eponymous poem by Matthew Welton ... one of the undoubted successes in this release and a truly beautiful work that deserves to be heard again and again…” MusicWeb International, Hubert Culot, 2009
Carl Raven, saxophone
Kathryn Williams, flute
Steph Tress, cello
The House of Bedlam
was founded by composer and performer Larry Goves. The group has performed at one of our club nights in Hoxton's Macbeth, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Faster than Sound, the Purcell Room, in the Aldeburgh Festival, in the CCA in Glasgow and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Larry Goves
is a British composer and artist based in Manchester (UK). His work has been presented, performed, about broadcast around the world by numerous groups and musicians including the London Sinfonietta, the Nash Ensemble, The London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, The Britten Sinfonia, Psappha, The Solem String Quartet, The Argonaut Ensemble (Australia), The Hallé, BIT20 (Norway), 175 East (New Zealand), L’Instant Donné (France), Divertimento Ensemble (Italy), Oliver Coates, Sarah Nicolls, Kathryn Williams, Tom McKinney, Carl Raven, and many others all over the UK and abroad.
His music has been released on NMC, Dutton, Prima Facie, Slip, Nonclassical, Prah, LSO Live, and on the London Sinfonietta’s Label. As an installation artist he has presented work at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Tatton Park Biennial, The Science Museum (London), and the Wellcome Institute.
An experienced curator, he was the co-curator of Manchester’s New Music North West, curated experimental concert series Decontamination at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), and is the director of ensemble The House of Bedlam.
He is a Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers recipient, has been shortlisted for an RPS Award, and is a former recipient of a Jerwood-Aldeburgh Opera Writing Fellowship with regular collaborator writer Matthew Welton.
He was the composition tutor for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for ten years and is the former composer in residence for Royal Holloway, University of London. He currently devises and delivers the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme course Composition, Alternative Performance, and Performance Art and is a senior lecturer in composition at the Royal Northern College of Music.