Sound and Music

Symon Clarke has written music for conventional western instruments and the Javanese Gamelan; his compositions for the latter include The Dissolving Tree, Strange Attractor, Fugitive Pieces, Bonang Spiritual, Magic Mirror, Landscape with Haiku, Earth Songs and Echo’s Bones for Groups in the UK, Holland, Germany, France and Malaysia.

More recently he has returned to composing for western instruments and works include Midnight Verses, Tara Bouman (clarinet) and Stephan Froleyks (marimba); Endgame, a percussion quartet for Klangwerk Münster and Time’s Eye a song cycle, for the Concorde Ensemble. The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, under James MacMillan, performed his orchestral work, Statue Circle in 2006, and Three Exits for a trio of Flute and gamelan instruments was performed at Kettle’s Yard in 2008.  Dimensions of the Present Moment was performed by the Chromatico Ensemble in May 2009 and Pour Finir Encore for chamber orchestra was highly recommended in the International Uuno Klami Composition Competition and shortlisted by Sound and Music.

He currently working on a new song cycle, Zugunruhe, for Ensemble Wireworks, for performance in Germany in 2010 and a new piece for Liquid Architecture, for performance in the UK 2010/11.

His music has been broadcast on Radio 3 in Music of our Time, Hear and Now, Late Junction and World Music Week and elsewhere in Ireland, Germany, Holland, France and Asia.

Take a look at Symon's website for more information.