CAROL J JONES | COMPOSER
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aurora borealis
Commissioned by St Catherine's College, University of Oxford
​Premiere with St Catherine's College Chamber Ensemble at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, 25 February 2020
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aurora borealis is a reimagining of the northern lights, Earth’s own natural light show. Based on a transcription of charged electrons that form the aurora borealis, this piece reimagines the journey of those electrons as they crash into the Earth’s magnetic field only to scatter away. The piece highlights the difference between what we expect, or hope, the aurora to sound like, magical and mythical, in contrast to how it does sound, frenetic and wild.
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  • About
  • Music
    • Orchestra >
      • the light thief
      • Songs from the Stars
    • Chamber >
      • the secret world of plants
      • chrysalis
      • aurora borealis
      • the waggle dance
      • the singing tree
      • the jellyfish blues
      • dances to accra
      • LUMEN
      • from Earth to Juno
      • norholmen
      • bulawayo railway
      • neuron
    • Solo >
      • selkie
      • in the shadows
      • higgs
      • variation for fenella
      • little one
      • rainfall
      • a note from the blue
      • the butterfly effect
      • gravity
    • Choral & Vocal >
      • eight maids a-milking
      • one more breath
      • elegy
      • praise ye the lord
      • here dead lie we
      • if i join up the dots in the stars
      • it happened to me
      • we are for one, we are for all
      • all shall be well
  • Media
  • Diary
    • Diary Archive
  • Commission
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