Autumn 2010 Music Festival

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Saturday 16th October - 7.30pm

The Tamesis Quartet:

Artem Kotov - 1st violin

Gemma Dickinson - 2nd violin

Grigory Tsyganov - viola

Gregory Duggan - 'cello

Programme

Benjamin Ellin - Urban Mythology

Franz Joseph Haydn - Op.33.no.6

Franz Joseph Haydn - Op.74.no.3

Ludwig van Beethoven - Op.18.no.4

Urban Mythology uses as a basic idea the transition of energy. I drew
initial inspiration from the Hadron Collider which reached international
notoriety through the media earlier this year.
The notion of energized ‘particles’ being forced together and
bouncing off in different directions encouraged me to look beyond this
scientific experiment and explore this theme through looking at cities
and the people who live in them. (The idea of energy and collision
as specific ideas are notated in the very final section of this work just
before the conclusion.)
In city life, people often use extreme amounts of energy for little or no
gain and in a manner that is not in keeping with the way humans are
essentially wired. Cities can, and often do, produce the worst use of
an individuals energy instead of it being focussed in a positive and
clear way.
The work is imbued with various sounds that permeate certain
situations in everyday city life and it takes a journey from dawn till full
blown rush hour.
The mythology is really the question as to why we are constantly sold
the lie that being busy and rushing around is positive. Not everybody
is really that busy and not everybody needs to be.