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Hortulus Animae

by Richard Craig

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    A limited CD-r release comes in a handmade folder made from wax paper, with three long postcards of original photography. It includes a letterpress postcard with the tracklist and recording information. CD cover design and letterpress by Graeme Hobbs.

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Hortulus Animae consists of three works that can be performed individually or as one. They are composed for flute, bass flute and piccolo with fixed media, and situated somewhere between music theatre, improvisation and composition.

The compositions circumambulate three sites in North Wales (Colwyn Bay Sea Defences, Llandudno Junction and Bryn Celli Ddu) that for me combined contemporary and mythological perspectives. The result could broadly be described as a psychogeographic work that intermingles a personal symbolism with the potency of being surrounded by a simultaneously ancient and modern culture that is specific to Wales.

There were also several texts in the periphery of my thinking about the composition, among these were the writings by Antonin Artaud, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. Their influence is perhaps more discernible in the imagery of the visual materials that accompany Hortulus Animae than the music itself. The only exception to this being the third work siambr, which draws on the energy and visceral nature of Artaud’s Le theatre de Séraphin.

Total playing time: 23mins

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released April 26, 2021

Photographs - r.craig
Recording and Mastering - John Croft

Design and Letterpress - Graeme Hobbs
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Richard Craig Scotland, UK

Flute player, composer and improviser.

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