Leo Chadburn – Vapour Descriptors (2014) For two pianos (and pianists’ voices) Premiered hcmf// 2014 (Kate Halsall, Fumiko Miyachi) The vocabulary of the perfume industry is a strange thing; technical, scientific, archaic, evocative. The set of descriptors announced in the piece include some common and not-so-common terms that might be applied to scent, separated by…

Forming a new trio for voice, keyboard instruments and percussion: Melanie Pappenheim, Genevieve Wilkins and Kate Halsall. With their diverse range of musical experience in classical, theatre, film and pop music,  the trio draws together their mutual interests in experimental sound worlds and intimate visual effects with some stunning results. Includes music by Howard Skempton,…