Larry Goves: Just Stuff People Do

Literary references are at the heart of Larry Goves’s music: written for regular collaborator Sarah Nicolls and scored for solo piano, electric piano, prepared piano, large ensemble, electronic sounds and live processing, Goves explains that Things that are blue… is “my notion of a romantic piano concerto seen through the twisted lens of Paul Auster’s surreal gumshoe landscape”; while the terminus wreck for solo cello is a a response to Paul Celan’s poetry. Trends in personal relationships, performed by London Sinfonietta under Martyn Brabbins, is a response to modern life, relationships and internet dating.