Lockdown Dawn by Rob Holden

Once I finished this short atonal wind quintet it seemed to sound like when summer of 2020 happened in the spring of 2020, when all looked beautiful but there was that underlying feeling of everything being very wrong.
I've been wondering why I was wanting to experiment with twelve tone music and thought that I just wanted to see if I could make use of a tone row I came up with when I was at school to come up with something pretty. Zappa said that despite the twelve tone technique making so much sense to him when he was young he had abandoned it because he became tired of making ugly music and wanted to make something beautiful. I've since wondered whether because twelve tone music never seems to settle, feels as if it could go on indefinitely and results from the imposition of restrictions whether it's about as 2020 an approach as there could be.

During the 2020 lockdown I began scratching my musical itch using freeware I downloaded. It turned out to be the start of the most creative period of my musical life. My bandcamp page enables sharing work as I learn and develop but I also hope that performers might hear something that they would enjoy playing. If you would like to see any scores please get in touch,be great to hear from you.