TIMOTHY ROY
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Ghosts of Cluny

2010
fixed media
5'12"
List of Performances
The Benedictine Abbey of Cluny, established in 910 by William I of Aquitaine, was the leading center of monasticism in the Middle Ages and boasted the largest church in Christendom prior to the 16th-century reconstruction of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Today only the bell tower of the church and a fraction of the great abbey remain, having been devastated by plundering during the French Revolution. Otherworldly echoes of the millennium-old ruins resound in Ghosts of Cluny, a piece which evokes both the sacredness and the immense acoustic space of the former monastery.

The work was realized in the IMPACT Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and was named a Finalist in the International Composition Competition “Città di Udine,” ninth edition.

 
Performances
  • Foundation for Modern Music — MECA Audatorium, Houston, TX. April 8, 2016
  • Sweet Thunder Music Festival — San Francisco, CA. April 25 and 27, 2014
  • 1st Electronic Music Festival, Center of Cypriot Composers — Nicosia, Cyprus. June 6, 2013
  • MidAmerica Nazarene University — Olathe, KS. November 27, 2012
  • Electronic Music Studios Concert — University of Iowa. October 23, 2012
  • KcEMA KC Soundwalk — Kansas City Crossroads District. October 5, 2012
  • Kansas State University — February 16, 2012
  • radioCona Radio Arts Space, “Ultra Disco” — Ljubljana, Slovenia. December 7, 2011
  • Undécimo Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica de Chile, “Ai-Maako” — Valdivia, Chile. October 21, 2011
  • Electronic Music Midwest — Kansas City Kansas Community College. September 29, 2011
  • Composers Guild Concert — University of Missouri–Kansas City. December 1, 2010
  • Sonic Vigil — St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, Ireland. Played in listening station from July 17–24, 2010
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