Marcus Rock: Tulpa

This piece was written on the Composition and Performance Course in 2022 and performed in the Aldeburgh Festival in June 2023. The Composition and Performance Course is part of the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. More information here: brittenpearsar...
Marcus Rock: "Primarily through the usage of orchestration, timbre and register, this piece consciously attempts to translate various ‘tulpa’/thought-forms into acoustic sound images. ‘Tulpa’ can be considered to be sensory phenomena experienced internally, by way of imagination (audiation or ideation), things we see or hear which are not physical or ‘real’. The tulpa’s interactions with themselves and each other constitute the musical material in and of itself, as the perspective transitions between that of one encountering them first hand, the inner characters/ nature of the tulpa themselves, and a quasi-narrative commentary."
Matt Jolly: filmmaker
Jonathan Berman: conductor
Claire Booth: vocal tutor
Colin Matthews: composition mentor
Otis Enokido-Lineham: assistant conductor
Philip Dutton: composer
Beatrice Ferreira: composer
Sun Keting: composer
Marcello Palazzo: composer
Marcus Rock: composer
Sasha Scott: composer
McKenzie Warriner: soprano
Katie Macdonald: mezzo-soprano
Phoebe Rayner: mezzo-soprano
Elicia Neo: violin
Tiago Soares: Silva violin
Miguel Sobrinho: viola
Alasdair Morton-Teng: cello
Richard English: bass
Hannah Gillingham: flute
Tommy Hill: oboe
Raymond Brien: clarinet
Emily Newman: bassoon
George Strivens: horn
Tom Kearsey: trumpet
Kalun Leung: trombone
Tom Hall: percussion
Lise Vandersmissen: harp
Rob Hao: piano / celeste
David Palmer: piano /celeste / harmonium