Richard Greer: Radio Amanda [download]

Computer typeset score (11p) and parts (2p + 3p + 2p + 3p), saved as a .pdf files and compressed in a single .zip file for immediate download.

Radio Amanda - for String Quartet and 2 Live Analogue Radios /or Tape (2009).
Premiered by The Viridian Quartet, PLUG 2010

For Amanda J.

I have many memories of Amanda and I being the car with only the radio blurring away and a comforting hum from the engine as the world passed us by.

We would enter the Clyde Tunnel and as the curved yellow walls moved around us the radio would burst and stutter then fade away - always there to greet us on the other side.

Our long drives would often be accompanied by some chilled late-night presenter. It was like having a third person fill our easy silence because were too tired to speak.

Once we drove long enough to pass all of Loch Lomond so we could see the stars clearly away from the city - and nearly drifted off the road being so relaxed!

Radio Amanda is a reflection on my relationship with analogue radio and the memories I associate with it.