Adam de La Cour - Selected Works

Selected Works

• Three Boxes and a Cube (2004–2007) comprising Box 1: The Amputee (2004), Box 2: The Foetus on the Sofa (2007), Box 3: The Mirror Dwarf (2006) and Cube (2007). Collapsible steel frame notated scores.
• The Real Imaginary Framed Existence of Ringhead and Loon (2005). Large comic book score, first performed and recorded by de la Cour, Michael Finnissy and Alan Witts.
• Clown, a circus (2006), scored circus show using Cut-up techniques influenced by William S. Burroughs. Utilizes midget piano-stool pushers, surreal violence, 'throat percussionists' and quotations from the Marquis de Sade.
• H: Tokyo Dwift (2006) for solo piano. Japanese Hentai, commissioned and first performed by Michael Finnissy.
• Nursery Rhyme piano miniatures (2006), first performed by Mark Knoop.
• Tic (2007), solo for cello vocal. Written for Laura Moody. First performed at the Jack Lyons concert hall, York.
• Beat me (Cut and Perm' no.1) (2007) for solo piano and rape alarm. Written for Mark Knoop. First performed as part of the BMIC's Cutting Edge series.
• Verscharfte Vernehmung/Cowboy George (2008) For B flat clarinet/Bass clarinet/actor. Written for Vicky Wright and Peter Willcock. First performed at the National Portrait Gallery (London).
• L'Exorcisme du Momo (2008) for pipe organ/piano/contrabass clarinet/B flat clarinet/voice/drum for Libra Duo Mark Knoop and Carl Rosman.

de la Cour has projected work at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) as part of Comica 2008, and has exhibited at Southampton's Artvaults and the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD).