RICHARD CARRICK

Richard’s music spans a number of musical genres, including chamber, orchestral, solo, multi-media works with video and electronics, and works for the theatre and film.  All of his music stems from his deep roots in chamber music and musical performance -- but often branch out to the experimental realm to showcase musicality in other aspects of performance. 

His chamber pieces (Flow Trio, Towards Qualia, la scene miniature, etc), explore the evolution of musical threads over time as they are passed from one instrument to the next. His multi-media works (Cosmicomics, European Images, etc) unify moving images and live sounds into a unique form of musical/visual/theatrical expression.  His solo works (Natural Behaviour, “in flow”, Shadow Flow, Moroccan Flow, ∞ + 1, etc.) feature virtuosic and intensely compelling acrobatics for the soloist.

COMPOSITIONS by ENSEMBLE SIZE

Discography and Published Articles below.  For composition list with premieres, click here

MUSIC with VIDEO and/or ELECTRONICS

European Images

in three movements

Swedish Water

Franfurt Window

Holland Train

(solo cello with video with pre-recorded audio) [2007, 12 min]

Cosmicomics

commissioned by the Eiler Foundation

(male singer/narrator, fl, ob, b.clar, vn, va, vc, tbne, perc, multiple video, electronics)
Italo Calvino-text. Four Movements and Three Interludes  [2005, 30 min]

Solidarity

(clarinet, string quartet, percussion)

music for a film by Nancy Kiang [2005, 9 min]

The Gold Medal for Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival 2007.

The Mayor's Award of the Heart of Gold International Film Festival 2006, AUSTRALIA

Pianos

(solo piano with prerecorded audio playback) [2002, 9 min]

Containment - 8 Layered Piano Improvisations

(CD of pre-recorded piano tracks)

1. Slow Together 2. The Line, 3. Levity, 4. Lemon, 5. Stereo, 6. 2 and 4, 7. For, 8. Four  [2002, 14 min]

Phosphéne

(Violin duo, video, pre-recorded electronic sounds) [2001, 9 min]

The Fall

commissioned by Sonor

(tpt, tbn, pno, perc, ob, 2vns, va, vc, db, fl, b.clar, organ, video projection, three conductors) [2001, 15 min]

"Ruby, My Dear"

(piano and three TV monitors with prerecorded and live video and audio) [1997, 8 min]

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Find the Devil’s Lead - orchestral version

(Orchestra 3333 4221 2perc strings) [2008, 12 min]

Two Moments for Orchestra

(2222 2200 2perc, strings) [2005, 9 min]

LARGE CHAMBER ENSEMBLES - 10 or more players (conducted)

Find the Devil’s Lead

commissioned by Wet Ink Ensemble

(soprano, fl, clar, t sax, accordion, e guit, tpt, perc, vn, va, vc) [2008, 14 min]

The Fall

commissioned by Sonor

(tpt, tbn, pno, perc, ob, 2vns, va, vc, db, fl, b.clar, organ, video projection, three conductors) [2001, 15 min]

The Veins of Marble

commissioned by the Nieuw Ensemble

(fl, ob, clar, pno, mandolin, guitar, hp, perc, vn., va, vc, db) [2000, 10 min]

Two Circles

(fl, clar, ob, bsn, tpt, hn, 2 vn, va, vc, perc) [1994, 17 min]

LARGE CHAMBER ENSEMBLES  8 to 10 players (conducted)

Cosmicomics

commissioned by the Eiler Foundation

(male singer/narrator, fl, ob, b.clar, vn, va, vc, tbne, perc, multiple video, electronics)
Italo Calvino-text. Four Movements and Three Interludes  [2005, 30 min]

Can be performed as singer and chamber ensemble work without video or electronics

Identities...Graduals 2332 3212

(fl, ob, clar, bsn, tpt, hn, tbn,db) [1996, rev. 1999, 7min]

CHAMBER MUSIC 4 to 6 players (unconducted)

Adagios for String Quintet

(2 violins, viola, ‘cello, double bass) [2009/10, 14 min]

Adagios for String Quartet

commission by the Eiler Foundation, premiered by the JACK Quartet

[2009, 14 min]

la scène miniature quartet

violin (or flute), tenor saxophone (or bass clarinet), piano, musical saw (or cello) [2009, 8 min]

Towards Qualia Sextet

(flute, tenor saxophone (or bass clarinet), violin, cello, piano, vibraphone) [2008, 14 min]

Hamsah “Quartet”

commissioned for the Hoff-Barthelson Contemporary Music Festival

String Quartet and offstage Trumpet [2008, 8 min]

Towards Qualia

(violin, cello, piano, vibraphone) [2007, 16 min]

Solidarity

(clarinet, string quartet, percussion) [2005, 10 min]

The Gold Medal for Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival 2007.

The Mayor's Award of the Heart of Gold International Film Festival 2006, AUSTRALIA

Snow, Silence, Sleep

(piano, string quartet) [2002, 8 min]

Paralléle-Parallaxe

(oboe and harp soloists, violin, viola, cello) two movements [1999, 14 min]

Linear Intersections

(video and up to six improvisers) [1996, 11 min]

No score, this work is an edited video work for improvisers.

CHAMBER MUSIC  3 players

“a cause du soleil” Flow Cycle String Trio 

(string trio) [2009/10, 12 min]

Balagan

Commissioned by Riot

(saxophone, electric guitar, accordion) [2007, 15 min]

L'idée sans l'deal

(piano, violin, 'cello) four movements  [2005, rev 2007, 20 min]

Notebook, Bedside

(soprano, percussion, piano) [2004, 13 min]

FmlrSmblNcs

written for Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and Royaumont Voix Nouvelles

(oboe, piano, percussion) [1997, 8 min]

DUO MUSIC

la scène miniature

commissioned by Carin Levine and Rohan de Saram

(piccolo and cello) [2009, 8 min]

Duo Flow

(violin and cello) [2007, 12 min]

Nezilat ha Balagan

commissioned by Mary Oliver and Rozmarie Heggen

(violin, doublebass, with improvisation) [2007, 12 min]

Phosphéne

(Violin duo) [2001, 4 min]

Sculpture Idle Ceremony

(violin, percussion) [1997, 8 min]

Masculin-Feminin

(violin duo) [1996, 9 min], commercially available on CD

A Slow Duet

(soprano, flute) [1995, 3 min]

Manic, Frustration, Music Box, Pinocchio and Fiona, Cabaret

[2007, 10 min] Set of Piano Duets for young players 9 and up

SOLO MUSIC

Les Scènes Acoustiques

commissioned by  Magnus Andersson

(solo classical guitar) [2009, 12 min]

Moroccan Flow (unfolding from unity)

(solo cello) [2008, 10 min]

Shadow flow

(solo viola) [2007, 10 min]

European Images

in three movements

Swedish Water

Franfurt Window

Holland Train

(solo cello with video with pre-recorded audio) [2007, 12 min]

∞ + 1

(solo piano) [2006-7, 9 min]

Shadow fragments

(solo viola) [2006. 6 min]

"in flow"

(solo violin) [2006. 8 min]

entre nous

(violin solo, with vocal sounds, one player) [2004, 2min]

Natural Behaviour

(percussion) [1998, rev. 2004, 11 min]

Légèreté

(piano) [2002, 4 min]

Pianos

(solo piano with two prerecorded piano tracks on CD) [2002, 9 min]

Containment - 8 Layered Piano Improvisations

(CD of pre-recorded piano tracks)

1. Slow Together 2. The Line, 3. Levity, 4. Lemon, 5. Stereo, 6. 2 and 4, 7. For, 8. Four  [2002, 14 min]

"Ruby, My Dear"

(piano and three TV monitors with prerecorded and live video and audio) [1997, 8 min]

There is no score to this work.  The pianist performs Monk’s tune alongside two other performances that have been prerecorded.

Slowness and Tight

(piano) [1996, 3 min]

DISCOGRAPHY

Solidarity

music for film by Nancy Kiang
DVD release in Australia, 2007

Slowness

Don’t Panic! 60 Seconds for Solo Piano - Guy Livingston
Wergo Records, WER 66492, released 2001

Masculin-Feminin

Dedications to János Négyesy and Päivikki Nykter - Works for Two Violins
Aucourant Records, AUREC0010-1, released 2000

Containment - Layered Piano Improvisations

Extensive improvisations recorded over a 10 week residency at Banff Centre for the Arts.  Each track of the CD is a multi-track layering of different, and sometimes unrelated, improvisations. Self Released.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Spotlight Session, “In the Zone with Richard Carrick.”  Published by NewMusicBox.org April 22, 2010

Featured Composer in the Swedish Journal Nutida Musik Journal, May 2008.  “Young Americans” written by Mika Pelo

Featured composer in the magazine of Chamber Music America, December 2005,
"The Multi-Media Challenge" by Randy Nordschow, vol. 22, no. 6, p.28.

Working with Video: A Primer, by Richard Carrick. Published by NewMusicBox.org July 19, 2005