Healing Tales: Interview transcripts (2025)
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This is a series of 6 interviews, and notes from a further conversation, with 8 people working in Bolton Royal Hospital, about their experiences in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The interviews were recorded and transcribed by Alan Williams, and they went on... Read More about Healing Tales: Interview transcripts.

Healing Tales Collection - Content List (2025)
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Read this document first - it's a content list for the collection Healing Tales.

Healing Tales: Notes from Prototyping Session May 17th 2023 (2025)
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These notes were made following the prototyping session where 4 initial scored ideas were played by the project lead to the participants, and they were able to critique these ideas. This critique changed the content of the piece after this session.

The Listening Composer Revisited: Collaborative Composition using ParticipatoryDesign Methods (2025)
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A paper given at the November 2024 Social Impact of Music Making symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Healing Tales script (2025)
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This is the script for Healing Tales, a Collaborative Composition used as part of the development of the Listening Composer method of participatory collaborative composition. Healing Tales is a piece for recorded actors' voices and instrumental octet... Read More about Healing Tales script.

Healing Tales (300 word commentary and links to videos) (2023)
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Composition:

Williams, A (2023) Healing Tales. (50min) A collaborative dance/music theatre composition. Premiered New Adelphi Theatre, Latitude Ensemble, cond. Chris Clark, University of Salford, July 2023.

Link to videos: https://www.youtube.c... Read More about Healing Tales (300 word commentary and links to videos).

Healing Tales - full score in pdf (2023)
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This is the full score to Healing Tales, a collaborative dance/ music theatre piece

Songs Translated from a Forgotten Language - 300 Commentary and link to performance (2023)
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Composition:

Williams, A (2023) Songs Translated from a Forgotten Language (15 min) A song cycle to words by Ian McMillan. Performed by Psappha, March 2021, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester.

The piece formed part of Psappha’s Arts Council England-f... Read More about Songs Translated from a Forgotten Language - 300 Commentary and link to performance.

Songs Translated from a Forgotten Language (2023)
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Full score of the song cycle Songs Translated from a Forgotten language

The piece formed part of Psappha’s Arts Council England-funded Unheard Voices, in which four composers (Jay Capperauld, Nina Danon, Shruthi Rajasekar, and David Nunn) alongsid... Read More about Songs Translated from a Forgotten Language.

Movements of the Motionless (full score) (2023)
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This is the full score to Movements of the Motionless, described in a separate 300-word statement

The Shot, the Jelly, and the Pot of Treacle (link to performance from 51:10) (2023)
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This is a link to the recording of a piece for 2 pianos, The Shot, the Jelly, and the Pot of Treacle.

The performance was given by the Re:Sono piano duo (Lauryna Sableviciute and Nicholas Ashton, pianos) at Organum, Vilnius, Lithuania on 5th April... Read More about The Shot, the Jelly, and the Pot of Treacle (link to performance from 51:10).

The Shot, the Jelly and the Pot of Treacle: 300 word commentary (2023)
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An introduction to the process and context of the composition of this piece for two pianos. It should be read in conjunction with the score of the piece and the recording of the Vilnius premiere.

Weöres Egyenletek (Full score) (2023)
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The full score as a pdf of my song cycle setting six poems by Sándor Weöres.

Movements of the Motionless: 300 word statement and link to video (2023)
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This 300 statement gives detail of the process and context of this solo piano piece based on a poetic form by Hungarian poet Sándor Weöres. Links to video of performance can also be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O3UZhzuBsQ

Concert Poster (2023)
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Poster advertising the concert at which Weöres Egyenletek was premiered.

Context and translations of Weöres poems (2023)
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This is the text of the speech I gave throughout the concert at whihcbn Weöres Egyenkletek was premiered. It gives a historical and cultural introduction to Weöres, the context to the poems, and an attempted translation (my own) of each text.

Weöres Egyenletek: 300 Word statement and link to video (2023)
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This 300 statement gives detail of the process and context of this set of songs to texts by Hungarian poet Sándor Weöres. Links to video of performance can also be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06urYIFWY9w

The Shot, the Jelly and the Pot of Treacle (audio recording) (2023)
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Williams, A. (2023). The Shot, the Jelly and the Pot of Treacle (audio recording)

This is a recording of the premiere performance of The Shot, the Jelly and the Pot of Treacle given by the Re: Sono piano duo (Lauryna Sableviciute and Nicholas Ashton) at Organum, Vilnius, Lithuania on April 5th 2023.

The Shot, the Jelly, and the Pot of Treacle (Full score) (2023)
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This is the score to a piece for piano duo, called The Shot, the Jelly, and the Pot of Treacle. The piece was commissioned and premiered by the Re:Sono piano duo.

The piece presents an introduction, then a musical version of three states of nature... Read More about The Shot, the Jelly, and the Pot of Treacle (Full score).

A Horse's End (2022)
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Williams, A. (2022). A Horse's End. [Video]

A Horse's End is a music theatre piece commissioned by United Instruments of Luclin with Philippe Schwartz (solo euphonium). The performance was directed by Lionel Ménard and the Horse was performed by Irene Fas Fita.

It was premiered at the Carré... Read More about A Horse's End.