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Being a composer today it is not anymore about just writing the music. In most of the cases, and in order to scape from unwanted commissions and develop self-run projects, composers are responsible for hiring, recording, releasing, performing, producing, managing and funding. To achieve these, there is a huge financial effort involved, but very little opportunities for composers to get their projects funded by institutions, trusts and/or charities. That is why I need your donation, to help me fund my current project The Cloud for Baritone and String Quartet that sets an original text by Aubrey Lavender.

Having into consideration not only competitive fees for the writer, for the quartet, for the baritone and audio engineer, but also a fee for the space for rehearsals, for the space for recording and the space for the world premiere, launching fees, transportation and an emergency budget this project need approximately £15,000.

I am very lucky to have found a donor who's offered the space to rehears and to record. Now, I need your help to fund the rest which is £7,7o0. This will go towards the musicians, the writer, the audio engineer and the emergency budget (10% of the total remaining fee).

The Cloud is a very important self-run project, designed and conceived from scratch. It involves different musicians, creative and production teams from all around the world and acknowledges some of the most recent topics in our daily routine - The fast evolution of technology. It uses music to communicate social-contemporary issues that are relevant not only in the UK, but also around the globe.

With your help, we will be able to take this project further and to make it happen.

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The Cloud
for Baritone and String Quartet

The Cloud seeks to highlight contemporary social political subjects. The story is based in two overlapping stories that alternates back and forth between the two, focusing on technological revolution with echos of other broader types of revolution. One of the stories is about a lonely elderly right wing man. He tries to remove some protesters from his oil-executive son's event and inadvertently gets glued to the stage. Loving the attention he has got from his “protest”, he decides to join the Just Stop Oil movement. The other story is about a prince preparing for his coronation. When he learns of the new face tracking revolutionary technology, introduced by the police in order to track offenders in the coronation, the prince (unhappy) tries to put a stop to it. The prince is pressured to not to interfere and concedes. Halfway through the story, a glitch in the ID system switches the two men files in the database. The prince gets arrested, is sent to a mental institution and the elderly pensioner gets coronated.

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Baritone Jonathan Eyers https://www.jonathaneyers.co.uk/

The Sonnen Quartet

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The Cloud for Baritone and String Quartet

The Cloud
for Baritone and String Quartet