Aaron Cassidy is a composer and conductor with a growing international reputation and his works have been performed by leading contemporary music specialists. He joined the composition faculty of the University of Huddersfield in 2007 and is coordinator of the MA in New Music.

Contents:
[01] The Crutch of Memory, for solo indeterminate string instrument

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
[02] What then renders these forces visible is a strange smile, for solo trumpet
[03] Because they mark the zone where the force is in the process of striking, for solo trombone
[04] Being itself a catastrophe, the diagram must not create a catastrophe, for oboe/musette/English horn and E-flat/B-flat/bass clarinets

[05] I, purples, spat blood, laugh of beautiful lips, for voice (with live, computer-generated pitch material)
Texts by Arthur Rimbaud: “Voyelles” · Arthur Rimbaud: “Vowels” (unattributed English translation)
Christian Bök: “Voile,” from “Eunoia” (Coach House Press, 2001)

[06] metallic dust, for amplified bass clarinet

[07] asphyxia, for solo soprano saxophone

[08] songs only as sad as their listener, for solo trombone

Total time 56:40