Luke Harrison
Feeling everything feeling nothing
Feeling everything feeling nothing attempts to portray some of my own personal experiences, specifically during periods of time when I have felt so completely overwhelmed, that I have then found myself feeling nothing at all. I have used performance directions in the score, such as empty, hopeful, distant, frantic and numb, with the intention of further supporting the performer’s interpretation of the music.
The grace notes, often followed by harmonics throughout the piece, are another way in which I have tried to subtly express the differences between the two states. The piece explores contrasts and tensions, with the aim of illustrating the positives and negatives, of feeling both everything, and nothing.
Luke HarrisonBiography
Luke Harrison is a British composer, whose inspiration and aim for much of his work is to express his emotions and experiences through his music. During his Bachelor of Music in Composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Luke studied under Howard Skempton, Richard Ayres, Fumiko Miyachi, Seán Clancy, Joe Cutler and Andrew Toovey, alongside informal studies with Nico Muhly, Larry Goves and Gavin Higgins. His work has been commissioned by the National Youth Percussion Ensemble, the National Youth French Horn Ensemble and performed internationally by groups including I Solisti (Belgium), Quatour Bozzini Canada) and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG). His piece Music for keeping dogs calm or for dogs to enjoy has also been broadcast on the BBC Radio 3 New Music Show. Currently, Luke is developing compositional approaches that incorporate patterns and processes drawn from the natural world.
