★SN Variations
Descent
Descent is a selection of works spanning over 20 years. While it reflects Prior's background in the acousmatic tradition that emerged in the UK from musique concrète, Descent departs from several of the core Schaefferian precepts that underpinned the…
Since It Turned Out Something Else
This is the first long form solo artist release by Corker since 2013. Sounds collected and forgotten about to be then re found and used as seeds of new compositions. Neither acoustic composition nor electroacoustic but somewhere in between, the music…
Subaerial
'Subaerial' is the latest and most sophisticated transmission from the long musical partnership of cellist Lucy Railton and keyboardist Kit Downes, a collaborative history that stretches back thirteen years. From the beginning, the pair bridged music…
Tin Star Liverpool
* Edition of 300 neon yellow vinyl * Adrian Corker’s bold, heavily textured score for Tin Star: Liverpool gets a limited release on 300 neon yellow vinyl. Working with a 12-piece string section as well as brass and percussion, Corker draws out a rich…
Start Merge Fade
* Edition of 200 hand-numbered copies * First material from Adrian Corker since 2013's 'Raise' album. This debut release on SN Variations is an experimental piece (Start Merge Fade) for cello, hammer dulcimer, tape and moog. Driven by evolving drones…
Scelsi EP
** Edition of 300 * From an idea by Adrian Corker and Lucy Railton. Cover is a detail from "Placebo Painting No 7" by Dillwyn Smith. Tracks 1+2 recorded by Peiman Khosravi and mixed by Peiman Khosravi and AishaOrazbayeva. Track 4 recorded by Chris Wa…
The Have-Nots OST
A series of pieces from the score to Florian Hoffmeister's The Have-Nots featuring lock grooves, violin, cello, viola da gamba and double bass. Performed by Emma Smith, Lucy Railton, Liam Byrne and Petter Eldh.
Also featuring performances by Aisha Or…
Music For Violin Alone
"Music for Violin Alone" was recorded in a makeshift studio in an empty house in Le Poujol sur Orb during the first two weeks of the French lockdown. Recorded both as a response to all loss of work due to COVID-19 and a way to be heard again. The pie…
Notes From The Forest Floor / Line Of Parts
* Edition of 250 on clear vinyl * A split sided album with Chris Watson and Georgia Rodgers, pairing two artists whose works here show different but complimentary new forms in the use of field recording in composition. Both were originally multi-chan…
Balloon
* Edition of 250 on transparent red vinyl * Balloon was originally commissioned by the London Sinfonietta as an acoustic piece, and first performed at the Southbank centre’s Sound Unbound festival in 2019.
“This is an arrangement for synthesisers of …
Music For Lock Grooves
**250 copies** SN Variations fifth release features two tracks in three parts each composed for lock grooves recorded onto acetate, percussion by Sam Wilson (Riot Ensemble / Actress) and violin performed by Aisha Orazbayeva. The tracks also feature t…