GRAND GESTURE DANCE COMPANY That Old Feeling explores attitudes to ageing. Four geri-anarchists shake off the cloak of elder invisibility. Performed in January 2020 in London as part of the Festival of New Choreography. Composers: Sara Cardinale, Alice Mills, Alexandria Eyre WATCH THE FULL PERFORMANCE VIDEO
LUCY BENNET DANCE COMPANY Reflection episodically shows the scarily subtle development of eating disorder habits in day-to-day life, the necessity of having a strong support system and troubling depictions of the crippling reality of this mental health disorder. Reflection was performed in October 2019 as part of Dance Festival Croydon (video of performance coming soon).…
Life Recaptured follows the life of Arnold, a 30-year-old financial advisor. Arnold always dreamed of being a photographer from a young age, but never pursued it, so ended up in a dead-end job he despises. Every single day feels exactly the same. As a result, Arnold is quite depressed and does not look after his…
In 2017, I had the honour of writing the soundtrack for the game Mordheim: Warband Skirmish by Legendary Games. I wrote themes and tracks based on each character type to represent their roles. For instance the Sisters of Sigmar theme represents the powerful female warriors which seek to bring peace back into their world. This…
This piece was written as exploration of meta-music. My interest in compositional systems which employ mathematical notions has lead me to research how to compose using fractals. This is the musical result of composing with Koch Snowflake. saracardinalemusic · Interlude 2 Koch Snowflake
The piece Cigno Nero was written using Neo-Riemannian Theory, elements of Schillinger’s system of music composition and Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli technique. The first half of the piece uses chord progressions that have foundation in the Neo-Riemannian Theory (NRT). I chose a series of chords, of which most are connected through NRT moves, and wrote them…
Mark of Markov explores modal composition by using six different Markov chains to determine all the musical elements of the piece. The first Markov chain describes the chord progression, and every 4 bars allows the piece to potentially change to one of four modes; Lydian, Ionian, Mixolydian or Dorian. Each mode has a separate Markov…
“Islands” draws stylistic elements from film music, and applies concepts from Juslin and Västfjäll’s BRECVEM(A) model about eliciting emotions through music. The track, – structurally inspired by a photograph of Norwegian fjords – builds modal islands by repeatedly shifting the tonal centre from one C mode to the other over a C pedal note, in…
