I have chosen a spiral staircase in the Wilberforce building for a short piece. The space has a really pronounced reverb, and I like the idea of height as well as direction being played with in the way it’s performed. The idea is to have 4 musicians with fairly compact instruments stood a few stairs apart, and creating a ripple effect (or metachronal rhythm).

(The spiral staircase in the Wilberforce Building, University of Hull’)

This is a rough draft, I’m going to refine it.

Page 1 of a music score, it shows 4 trumpets playing a weird melody

Page 2 of a music score, it shows 4 trumpets still playing a weird melody