Michael Blake
STANDING STONE CIRCLE for harp and violin
Bardic Edition BDE1432
Standing Stone Circle for harp and peripatetic violinist, was developed and written during a joint residency with X[iksa] - Yasutaka Hemmi (violin) and Takayo Matsumura (harp) - at the Nirox Foundation, Sterkfontein, South Africa during January and February 2012. The work takes its title from Richard Long’s site-specific artwork Standing Stone Circle (2011) which he made at the Nirox Foundation a year earlier. It was revised in June 2013 in Gotland, and the first performance was given by X[iksa] on 15 November 2013 in Dojin Christian Church, Tokyo.
The harp should be placed centre stage, with 9 music stands arranged as a grid for the violinist who proceeds from one position to the next, and back to the first, for each of the 10 sections of the piece.
A playing score is provided. Because the violinist’s score needs to be spread over nine separately placed music stands, permission is granted for the score to be photocopied to facilitate this.
Duration 23 minutes
The harp should be placed centre stage, with 9 music stands arranged as a grid for the violinist who proceeds from one position to the next, and back to the first, for each of the 10 sections of the piece.
A playing score is provided. Because the violinist’s score needs to be spread over nine separately placed music stands, permission is granted for the score to be photocopied to facilitate this.
Duration 23 minutes
