Adaptations (Final version, concert performance) by Francesca Le Lohe

Written for the Sounds of the Engine House Composition Award 2014. First performed by the ensemble at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, 5th June 2015.
Electronics were produced whilst in residency at Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2014.

In Adaptations, the ensemble is constantly adapting to its changing surroundings, provided by the electronic part. Sometimes it assimilates, other times it breaks away and tries to forge a new direction. It is inspired by the natural and man-made objects I recorded and used to develop the electronic part: we are constantly finding new ways to adapt to our surroundings and trying to make them adapt to us.

Text taken from ‘Song of the Flame’ by Ooka Makoto (b1931).