Oliver Iredale Searle

(Some of) My Works
Solo Pieces
The Illicit Still - solo bass/contrabass clarinet (2019) Purchase Score
Sequenza for clarinet - solo Bb clarinet; ca.6 minutes (2018) Score / Purchase Score
Faith, Hopes and Charity - solo baroque flute; ca.5 minutes (2017) Purchase Score
a little austerity - solo jazz piano; ca.5 minutes (2010) Score / Listen 
'A' Chewed - solo piano; ca.3 minutes (2010) Score / Purchase Score
Sequenza for trumpet - solo Bb trumpet; ca.6 minutes (2009) Listen / YouTube / Purchase Score

Small Ensemble
 Cold Atom - viola+accordion; ca.8 minutes (2019)  Score
Millport Godzilla - clarinet choir (Eb clar, 3 Bb clar, Eb alto clar, Bb bs.clar, Bb cntrbs; ca.5 minutes (2018) Score
Toward - cello+piano; ca.5 minutes (2018) Score
Dalriada - string quartet; ca.9 minutes (2018) Score
Dalriada - string trio; ca.9 minutes (2017) Score
Pilgrim of Curiosity - wind quintet; ca.30 minutes (2014) Listen / Score
Crystalline Fanfare - brass quintet; ca.3 minutes (2011) Score

Dalriada - reed trio; ca. 18 minutes (2011) Listen / Score
To Die - flute, bass flute, bass clarinet, cello; ca.11 minutes (2009) Score
Mean Tone - solo alto flute; ca.8 minutes (2009) Score

Snowbirds - flute, oboe, bass clarinet, bassoon; ca.8 minutes (2009) Listen / YouTube / Score
Breakfast Baroque - flute (dbl. baroque flute), bass clarinet, violin, cello, marimba; ca.10 minutes (2007) Score / YouTube
Moose Antler Fly - clarinet+piano; ca.5 minutes (2007) Score
Cold Atom - viola+piano; ca.10 minutes (2004) YouTube
Crystalline Fanfare - 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani (3); ca.3 minutes (2004) Listen / Score
Deathletics - flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, marimba; ca.12 minutes (2004) Listen / YouTube / Score
Downwarp - bass clarinet quartet; ca.5 minutes (2004) Listen / Score / YouTube

Large Ensemble
Microscopic Dances - Chamber Orchestra and Digital Orchestra; ca.30 minutes (2017) Score / YouTube
Close to Shore - contrabass flute and strings (7 vln, 2 vla, 2 vcl, db); ca.18 minutes (2012) Listen / Score
Technophonia - Chamber Orchestra and Digital Quartet; ca.15 minutes (2012) Listen / Purchase Recording
Catch - 8 piano version; ca.5 minutes (2011) Score
Catch - 15 piano version; ca.5 minutes (2011) Score
Nightfishing - chamber ensemble (fl, ob, Bs.clar, bsn, hrn, trpt, trbn, 1 perc, pno, 2 vln, vla, vcl, db); ca. 22 minutes (2010) Listen / Score

Orchestra
Accidental Dances - Symphony Orchestra version: 2+picc/2+c.a./2+bs.clar/2+cbsn - 4/3/3/1 - 4 perc/timps/harp/strings; ca.12 minutes (2016) Score
Accidental Dances - Chamber Orchestra version: 2+picc/2/2/2 - 4/2/0/0 - timps, strings; ca.12 minutes (2015) Score
Sauchiehall  - 2+picc/2+c.a./2+bs.clar/2+cbsn - 4/2/3/1 - 2 perc/timps/strings; ca. 8 minutes (2015) Score
Harbour Dreams - 2+picc/2/2+bs.clar/2 - 2/2/0/0 - timps, strings; ca.4 minutes (2012) Listen / Score 
Earworm - 2+picc/2+c.a./2+bs.clar/2+cbsn - 4/3/3/1 - 4 perc/timps/harp/strings; ca.20 minutes (2005) Score arriving here soon!  
my day of carnage - 2+picc/2/2+bs.clar/2+cbsn - 4/3/3/1 - timps, strings; ca. 5 minutes (2004) Listen / Score arriving here soon!
Prey For Life - 2+picc/2+c.a/2+bs.clar/2+cbsn - 4/3/3/1 - 4 perc/timps/2 hrp/strings; ca.18 minutes (2004) Score arriving here soon!
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Stentorophony - 2+picc/2+c.a/2+bs.clar/2+cbsn - 4/3/3/1 - timps/4 perc/cel/strings; ca.6 minutes (2002) Listen / YouTube / Score arriving here soon!
Systolic (2002) Listen 

Wind Orchestra
Jungle High Street - 2/2/3+bs.clar/2 - 2/1/1 -  4/3/3/0/1 - timps+2 perc; ca.6 minutes (2015) Score / Listen / YouTube
Crystalline Fanfare - 2+picc/1/3+bs.clar/2 - 2/2/1 - 4/3/3/1/1 - timps; duration ca.3 minutes (2007) Listen / Score arriving here soon!
Metameres - 2+picc/2/3+Eb+bs.clar/2 - 2/1/1 - 4/3/3/1/1 - 6 perc; ca.8 minutes (2003) Listen / Score arriving here soon!

Choral
Rest With Your Dream In My Dream - SATB choir; ca.3 minutes (2015) Score
23.VII.32 - SATB choir, chamber orchestra; ca. 8 minutes (2009) Score arriving here soon!
Beneath the Bracken - 2-part children's choir, piano; ca.3 minutes (2009)
On a Summer's Night - 2-part, unaccompanied children's choir; 4 minutes (2009) Purchase Recording
Swans on the Wing - 2-part children's choir, piano; ca.3 minutes (2009) 
Catkins - 2-part children's choir, piano; ca.3 minutes (2006)  
The Pleasant Scents of Spring - 2-part children's choir, piano; ca.3 minutes (2006)
Sunglasses - 2-part children's choir, piano; ca.3 minutes (2006)
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Introit -  SATB choir, organ; ca.2 minutes (2005)

Chamber Ensemble with Vocalist(s)
23.VII.32 - mezzo-soprano, viola, piano (2016) Score
The Parting Kiss - mezzo-soprano, viola, piano (2016) Score
Feldeinsamkeit - baritone+piano; ca.3 minutes (2011) Score / Listen
12 Steps for a Delightful Evening - 2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, percussion; ca.25 minutes (2007) Listen / Score arriving here soon!

Articles
Challenging Creativity: Inclusive Composition; IMPAR Online Journal for Artistic Research; Volume 2, No.1, 2018
Available to read online Here

Things to watch.

Things to buy
Catalogue of my work available from the Scottish Music Centre 
The Illicit Still: solo contrabass clarinet - available here from the Scottish Music Centre, as part of Ten Wee Drams
Faith, Hopes and Charity
: solo, baroque flute; ca.6 minutes - available here from
Tetractys Publishing
Technophonia: 
for Drake Music Scotland's Digital Orchestra - available from NMC Recordings
On a Summer's Night recording available on Signum
I also spend a fair amount of time at home with my son, and to amuse us both, I often set up a series of imagined scenarios with his toys; hence the following set of greetings cards - The Personal Lives of Toys - which are available to purchase online:
The Personal Lives of Toys
The Personal Lives of Toys

Things to look at.
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