Marcus Rock: Tulpa

This piece was written on the Composition and Performance Course in 2022 and performed in the Aldeburgh Festival in June 2023. The Composition and Performance Course is part of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. More information here: https://brittenpearsarts.org/take-par... Marcus Rock: "Primarily through the usage of orchestration, timbre and register, this piece consciously attempts to translate various ‘tulpa’/thought-forms into acoustic sound images. ‘Tulpa’ can be considered to be sensory phenomena experienced internally, by way of imagination (audiation or ideation), things we see or hear which are not physical or ‘real’. The tulpa’s interactions with themselves and each other constitute the musical material in and of itself, as the perspective transitions between that of one encountering them first hand, the inner characters/ nature of the tulpa themselves, and a quasi-narrative commentary." Matt Jolly: filmmaker Jonathan Berman: conductor Claire Booth: vocal tutor Colin Matthews: composition mentor Otis Enokido-Lineham: assistant conductor Philip Dutton: composer Beatrice Ferreira: composer Sun Keting: composer Marcello Palazzo: composer Marcus Rock: composer Sasha Scott: composer McKenzie Warriner: soprano Katie Macdonald: mezzo-soprano Phoebe Rayner: mezzo-soprano Elicia Neo: violin Tiago Soares: Silva violin Miguel Sobrinho: viola Alasdair Morton-Teng: cello Richard English: bass Hannah Gillingham: flute Tommy Hill: oboe Raymond Brien: clarinet Emily Newman: bassoon George Strivens: horn Tom Kearsey: trumpet Kalun Leung: trombone Tom Hall: percussion Lise Vandersmissen: harp Rob Hao: piano / celeste David Palmer: piano /celeste / harmonium