Photo by Lorcan Doherty
Solo for violin and voice, made for and with Mayah Kadish
Commissioned by hcmf// 2021
Performed by Mayah Kadish at:
22/10/21 – Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
29/10/21 – City University concert series, London
12/05/22 – Mare Terra festival, Puglia, Italy
7/1/25 – Convivio Vegetariano, Collevecchio, Italy
12/1/25 – Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
21/1/25 – Oxford Contemporary Music Series, UK
12/2/25 – Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
19/07/25 – RAMP festival, Donegal, Ireland
28/07/25 – Kirkos Space, Dublin
Edika Liiko
The title of this piece comes from a fictional language formed through a previous project of mine called Eat My CV and I’ll Eat Yours. In that piece, performers (mostly freelance creatives), ate and spat out their CVs and deciphered a new language from the chewed up remains. In Edika Liiko, the articulating capacities of violin and voice combine to bring this language to life.
Video below from performance at Hugh Lane, Dublin, January 2025.
Timestamps:
41:20 – me introducing the piece
43:38 – Edika Liiko
You can view the score here – Edika Liiko full score