we ARE DETERMINED

(2018)

for bass flute, narrator and drones

Written for Suffrage 2018 Events, kindly supported by VOTE100 at Royal Holloway.

  • Carla Rees (bass flute), Sophie Mercer (narrator) and Carwyn Jones (drones; violoncello) at Emily Wilding Davison Building Exhibition Space, Royal Holloway University of London (UK) on 9 March 2018.

  • for Carla Rees

    after Ethel Smyth

    Incorporating excerpts from Emily Wilding Davison’s diary during her incarceration at Holloway Prison (London, UK) in 1912, this work acts as a musical postcard from a single moment of one’s immoral persecution and a time of collective empowerment.

    -njd.

  • Bass flute (amplified; optional), narrator and drones (string instrument or synthetic)

  • 8’

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