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The Centre is Everywhere

for 12 string players
string ensemble
Edition: Performance material

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While composing this piece I was giving a lot of thought to the space of a piece of music; how within a piece of music we can become aware of foregrounds, backgrounds and numerous planes in between. I also have an enduring fascination with the interaction that takes place between the physical space of a performance and the interior/mental space within each of us, where vibrations of air are perceived and held in the memory. The more that I make music, the more richly mysterious I find this process to be.

The movement of sounds and ideas around the space of an ensemble of string players was integral to my thinking about this piece. The twelve musicians create together a layered musical space through which interlocking patterns of sound emerge, accumulate and disperse. The music is replete with overlapping lines that rise and fall, moving from hushed white-noise to wide, full-bodied sound and back again in wavelike motions.

The title comes from an anonymous medieval definition of God as ‘an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere’. The beautiful intangibility of this image captured my imagination when I first read it and made note of it years ago in an old notebook. It came back to me early on while thinking about this piece and somehow guided my decisions about how to shape the music.

© Edmund Finnis

Orchestral Cast

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More Information

Title:
The Centre is Everywhere
for 12 string players
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2019
Duration:
14 ′
World Premiere:
July 6, 2019 · London (UK)
Purcell Room
Manchester Collective

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the Manchester Collective with generous support from the RVW Trust and PRS Foundation

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Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LSL 10661

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  • The Centre is Everywhere
    Conductor: Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak
    Orchestra: Sinfonietta Cracovia
    October 20, 2024 | Kraków (Poland) , Teatr Łaźnia Nowa
  • The Centre is Everywhere
    Orchestra: Cambridge University Orchestra
    May 6, 2023 | Cambridge (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , West Road Concert Hall
  • The Centre is Everywhere
    October 27, 2022 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Wigmore Hall
  • The Centre is Everywhere
    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia
    October 20, 2022 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Southwark Cathedral
  • The Centre is Everywhere
    July 11, 2022 | Gloucester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Gloucester Cathedral
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