MUSIC
SOLO recordings
Voice Memos From… This series explored creating an EP in 48h using just a phone, & was released via iPhone between 2023/24. Please get in touch if you would like a copy/copies.
Compositions I: is a collection of instrumental works including A City Structure for wind trio commissioned by the Bath International Festival, Hannah (And I Will Keep My Word) for voices and electronics, performed and premiered by Juice Vocal Ensemble, and Fluid Architectures I & II for vibraphone, voices, and chamber ensemble.
Our Lady of Stars is a multimedia work comprising of an album, audiobook, and a book of poetry and scores appropriating exploring music and language’s shared written and aural syntaxes. It was independently released on Sorana’s own imprint I Dream Sound in conjunction with Nova/Universal and Lazy Gramophone Press, toured with funding from Arts Council England, and was nominated for a British Composer Award. This album features Joe Wright (saxophone/electronics), Alex Bonney (trumpet/cornet), James Maddren (drums), & The Ligeti Quartet.
Books of Hours and Changes is the audiobook component of BASCA British Composer Award-nominated multimedia work Our Lady of Stars/Books of Hours and Changes, comprising of an album, and a book of poetry and scores. In this avant-garde postmodern piece, a young woman corresponds with a silent counterpart via poetry and letter-writing. Structured using contemporary music techniques, this work draws symbolic parallels between love and religious veneration, and questions the interplay between fate and free will.
Swansongs is the result of a friend’s challenge to write and record an EP of songs in two weeks with only one mic. At the time Sorana was a case study for a trainee analyst and was undertaking dream analysis; each song describes a recently-analysed dream, and the cover too replicates a dream-state. Musically, this became the beginnings of Our Lady of Stars' sound-palette, and drew heavily from the Blues and Soul-influenced topline writing Sorana had been asked to write for other people in the years preceding this challenge.
The play Pawnography, was written and directed by then Writer-in-Residence Tracy Keeling for The Rose Theatre, Southbank during the summer of 2010, and was later awarded the Fringe Award for Best Play. Keeling’s brief was to create music that could be sung by the actors on stage, function as incidental music, and work as a stand-alone collection of pieces. This EP takes the ‘detuned’ nature of the script, using out-of-tune keyboard instruments: piano, prepared piano, and harmonium - which, in turn, affect the vocal delivery - as a conceptual parallel of the script’s effect on the story.
Ask Me Nothing - film score. Dir. Raliza Petrova. Commissioned by the Millennium Comission
Fire and Gold - for string quartet, commissioned by SHRA Ensemble
Four Songs - text setting of e.e.cummings and Mihai Eminescu, for tenor, clarinet, ‘cello, and piano, commissioned by the Landon Chamber Ensemble. Finalist in the Philip Bates Prize, 2007
Here is the Ocean - for eight-part choir, written for the CYM Choir
Just Like Job - for eight-part choir, written for the CYM Choir
In Deep Space - for solo piano
In Idyll - ambient remixes for string quartet & electronics, premiered at Cargo
Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams I, for choir, commissioned by ORA Singers
Structures I & II - for orchestra
Thirty-Three - for string orchestra and tape
Sound design
Prancing With the Stars (click here for footage of preliminary video play)
Wizard - as part of Global Game Jam
Doctrine - winner of the Innovation in Design award, Global Game Jam (you need two controllers needed to play this computer game