news
- November 2008
- Amber is currently at work for the vocal group Exaudi. She is considering using a Townes Van Zandt song (subject to permission!)—separating the lyrics from the tune and printing the scores the singers sing from onto large A0 sheets of paper.
- October 2008
- St Hilda's Festival Choir in Whitby and Amber Priestley are continuing their collaboration in the Adopt-a-composer scheme. The theme of the 2008 programme is the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I. The text Amber will use for her piece has an interesting local connection with a church in Kleve, Germany.
- September 2008
- Music and the Deaf, an organization which promotes the enjoyment of music and the performing arts to the hearing-impaired community, have joined with Amber in an exciting project: she will design a piece of music to be played by 25 members of this group in a concert to take place in 2009. The goal is to engage many of the young hearing-impaired community throughout Yorkshire.
- August 2008
- Amber is in the process of composing a piece for the composer and pianist Claudia Molitor. This piece will be based upon graphic art, and the open-form score will require Claudia's interpretation.
- June 2008
- Soundwaves Festival 2008 has commissioned Amber to design an installation for the festival. Students from the University of Brighton have been working with Amber Priestley to create this day-long installation. Amber has created a space in which the human voice mediated through tape recorders and manipulated by the visitor will slowly entwine with the sounds of the ambient world.