Friendly Piece

Commissioned in 2019 & written during Andrew Hamilton’s time as composer in residence with Crash Ensemble. ‘Friendly Piece’ alludes to hovering between things, to evade being pinned down. It explores friendliness & kindness giving you a “tiny bit of joy or even infuriating you.” Everything belongs. Recorded live at Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2023. Andrew says: "The sound of a bird's wings flapping in Monaghan, a sacred text that helped so much to get through dark times, memories of a childhood obsession with "The Sound of Music" and much more are cut up and thrown into a grid to allow all these elements to intermingle - simplistic answers to be destroyed. Can music be kind?