Chamber + popular music
Unthunk
Unthunk is an identifier for Trevor Tunnacliffe's musical endeavours.
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Chamber + popular music
Unthunk merges chamber and popular music. The chamber music influence derives particularly from the modal polyphony of the Renaissance. Pop music characteristics include modern lyrics and instruments.
With chamber music, the score captures the initial impulse, much as a screenplay does for a film. The performers provide feel and character, bringing the score to life, transforming the piece in the process.
The popular music elements originate intuitively, from off the cuff sketches or improvisation.
If you are musician who would like to be involved in Unthunk recording, we invite you to get in touch.
LJ Mounteney
Holly Bryan
Finn Manniche
Rebecca Tunnacliffe
Buff Allen
Giovanni Grandi
Trevor Tunnacliffe
Bass guitar, guitar, baritone guitar. Various simple parts not otherwise credited, including modular synthesizer. Trevor is also a lapsed viola da gamba player.
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Molluscs in the stream
The Mid-Century Molluscs perform Unthunk’s “Return to the sea” is now available on all your favourite streaming platforms, and remains available on Bandcamp.
Reverence video
Enjoy this delightful little video illustrating one of the sections of “Reverence”, a song on The Mid-Century Molluscs perform Unthunk’s “Return to the sea”. Italian multi-media artist Isobel Blank created a pen and ink animation to show the breaking wave described in the lyric: Hypnotic stillness settles on Singular band emerging, darkening Inexorably upward drawn … Read more
Giovanni Grandi’s Sea shanty
Unthunk is honoured to have a contribution from Giovanni Grandi on The Mid-Century Molluscs perform Unthunk’s “Return to the sea”. While on vacation in the Azores, Giovanni settled into a secluded rocky bay, absorbing the ocean sounds to conceive a suitable piece. While originally envisioning his modular synthesizer, heavily filtered, to express the ocean’s power as heard … Read more
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To hear, record or perform Unthunk material, get in touch. We're happy to provide scores and high resolution audio files.