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Decompositions (Sonata) at St Cecilia's Hall

Performed at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, 22 November 2024 by Ed Williams (harpsichord) and Anouck Genthon (violin). Decompositions (Sonata) decomposes the harmonic progression of the Siciliano from Sonata IV in C minor by J S Bach (c.1720). Here, the duo Ed Williams and Anouck Genthon play with the commonalities as well as the dissonances between the normally separate worlds of experimental and baroque music. Many thanks to the staff at St Cecilia's for hosting us and preparing the 1974 Davies harpsichord (and on St Cecilia's day no less!), as well as Canton de Genève and Pro Helvetia for their generous support. “Decompositions” is part of Ed Williams' "Decomposition Studies", a series of collaborative improvised pieces in which early music pieces are deconstructed, developed and explored by musicians in real time. Like enzymes breaking down organic matter, the musicians collaborate to weave an improvised fabric of timbres, intervals and silences that emerge from the diffraction of pieces of pre-existing early music. Combining early music techniques such as ornamentation and canons with contemporary influences like minimalist repetition and dissonance, their approach is inspired by eco-feminist concepts of compost and string figures, as explored in the writings of Donna Haraway, Isabelle Stengers, Emma Bigé and others. https://edwilliams.xyz/ @edwilliamsxyz https://anouckgenthon.com/ @anouckgenthon For more about St Cecilia's Hall and the Davies harpsichord: https://www.stcecilias.ed.ac.uk/    • Double-Manual Harpsichord, Robert Davies, ...   #edinburgh #stceciliashall #harpsichord #renaissance #decomposition #edwilliams #anouckgenthon #edinburgh #experimentalmusic #improvisation