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Released on Tŷ Cerdd’s Sionci label 28.11.25
CYSGODION
new works for violin and electronics
CYSGODION TCR057
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DELYTH FIELD Cysgodion 7’05’’
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RICHARD McREYNOLDS Draighean 6’34’’
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NATALIE ROE Taith 5‘27’’
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SARA EVELYN water drawing 5‘16’’
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JOSHUA LASCAR Two To Four To One 5‘06’’
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JOSEPH GRAYDON Basilica 10’58’’
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ANGHARAD DAVIES Pentref y Feiolinau 6’26’’
Album artwork by Kelly Best
Cysgodion (‘shadows’) presents seven new works for violin and electronics, performed by internationally acclaimed violinist Darragh Morgan.
Cysgodion brings together compositions by Angharad Davies, Sara Evelyn, Delyth Field, Joseph Graydon, Joshua Lascar, Richard McReynolds, and Natalie Roe. The album showcases distinctive new voices from Wales exploring the intersections of acoustic and electronic experimentation.
Each work explores a distinct approach to integrating the expressive textures of the live violin with creative electronics – through improvisation, live processing, modular synthesis, field recordings, fixed media, tape machine, sound design, and sampling. Each composer also produced their own track, with some pieces also incorporating electronic performance by the artists themselves, reflecting the energy and breadth of new electroacoustic composition emerging in Wales.
Darragh Morgan’s violin performance was recorded at Tŷ Cerdd’s Studio in Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, and the wider project was developed through Tŷ Cerdd’s Ffidil Plws programme (part of the organisation’s broader CoDI artist-development initiative), where six new works were created through an intensive programme of workshops and mentoring from Darragh Morgan and experimental violinist/composer Angharad Davies.
Angharad Davies said: “Artist-development opportunities like Ffidil Plws create a bedrock for sharing ideas, techniques and experience, not only from mentor to mentee but also between all that are involved behind the scenes in the project in every capacity – they are vital places to nourish and build communities.”
Darragh Morgan said: “Having collaborated with and commissioned new work from hundreds of composers internationally, and with two dedicated album releases of music ‘for violin and electronics’, I am delighted that this artist-development platform exists for me to share my expertise, experiences and working practices, instilling and encouraging critical and decisive engagement with the possibilities of the medium with composers who might not have had these opportunities previously. My own practice is rooted in the quest to further expand and evolve the sonic possibilities and scope of the violin in this setting, and this collaborative project with these music creators continues in this vein, creating music and raising the bar to aspire to the highest quality work.”
Cysgodion is released on Sionci Records – available to stream and download on all major platforms:.
Irish violinist Darragh Morgan is a renowned exponent of contemporary music. He has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician around the world, and his artistic collaborations are extensive. He has recorded over 75 albums, many of which are award-winning. full biography
Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist and composer, working in free-improvisation and experimental performance. Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training, and performance expectation. full biography
Delyth Maiya Field is a Japanese-Welsh composer with a passionate interest in both electronic and acoustic music. A graduate of the Royal College of Music, she continues to explore the possibilities of the latest music technology and new ways of composing music.
Joseph Graydon is a composer from South Wales and is based in London. He has studied composition in Wales, at the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His music has been performed and recorded by EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, Plus Minus Ensemble, UPROAR New Music Ensemble Wales, ICTUS Ensemble Brussels, alongside soloists of his own generation.
Joshua Lascar is a French-American composer-guitarist who blends his background in jazz guitar with electronics. He also self-produces music for Film/TV, with credits including Netflix, Nat. Geo., BBC, Bravo, Channel 4 & 5 and S4C.
Natalie Roe is a composer and electronic artist interested in combining the acoustic and electronic worlds in live performance. With a passion for collaboration, she often brings in visual elements to her work and loves working on interdisciplinary projects.
Richard McReynolds is a Belfast-born composer and multimedia artist living in Cardiff. His work often explores ways of merging different artistic mediums using creative coding and digital technology.
Sara Evelyn is a sound and interdisciplinary artist whose compositional practice considers space, materiality, and site and is often created as a response to the acoustic or material elements of a specific place or environment. She works with voice and field recording alongside pipe organ, harp, violin, synthesiser and electroacoustic recording on cassette tape to create multilayered compositions and live performances.
Sionci is Tŷ Cerdd’s artist-led label sitting alongside the existing marque Tŷ Cerdd Records. Sionci has been conceived to enable creative- and career-development for artists, cross-genre. Artists can take control of any of all of parts of the process – from recording and producing, to artwork and promotion – and are offered a more favourable royalty split than a regular label.