The Big Light is the main light in your living-room.
It holds a special place in the lives of the working-classes, be it to help you play Subbuteo or to help see what you're doing when you're cleaning.
The Big Light has fallen out of fashion recently with more people going for lamps instead. I don't blame them: lamps make your house look nicer. They give your room a certain warm glow.
But you can't see as much when you don't have the Big Light on.
Maybe that's the point.
Maybe you don't want to see everything so clearly?
But what happens when you no longer see everything so clearly?
How do you change?
When does seeing things less clearly mean certain things fall out of fashion?
Like the Big Light.
Like Class.
Instrumentation
Baroque Cello
Multimedia (Lighting and Tape)
Duration
12 minutes
Dedication
Written for Molly Welling.
Premiere
Birmingham New Music - 9th of March, 2022
It holds a special place in the lives of the working-classes, be it to help you play Subbuteo or to help see what you're doing when you're cleaning.
The Big Light has fallen out of fashion recently with more people going for lamps instead. I don't blame them: lamps make your house look nicer. They give your room a certain warm glow.
But you can't see as much when you don't have the Big Light on.
Maybe that's the point.
Maybe you don't want to see everything so clearly?
But what happens when you no longer see everything so clearly?
How do you change?
When does seeing things less clearly mean certain things fall out of fashion?
Like the Big Light.
Like Class.
Instrumentation
Baroque Cello
Multimedia (Lighting and Tape)
Duration
12 minutes
Dedication
Written for Molly Welling.
Premiere
Birmingham New Music - 9th of March, 2022