Morison/opit
morison/opit was the authorial name given to the collaboration between composers Benjamin Morison and Simon Opit.
Project
Benjamin Morison and Simon Opit were composers who worked exclusively in collaboration for a period of some years, approximately 1991–1994. As one commentator wrote, "Much of their work consists of two set of parts written independently, which adds a new radical sense of indeterminacy one might have thought lost in recent works of the experimentalist genre."In a text published in 1992, they wrote:
Critical reception
The BBC broadcast several works by morison/opit.Two concerts featuring their music were reviewed in Tempo magazine.
List of works
Based on the list of works published in Farben '92, expanded from various other sources.- long and soft bowing, for bowed vibraphone and string quartet
- sew the blue sail
- double arrangement, for piano & 'cello and violin & vibraphone
- II - flute, piano, violin, viola, 'cello : broadcast Fri 21st Jul 1995, 22:25 on BBC Radio 3
- III - large ensemble
- one piano : written for Nicolas Hodges and broadcast by him Sun 19th Feb 1995, 20:45 on BBC Radio 3
- touching the piano, one trombone
- violin, viola, cello
- violins and viola
- IV - Mixed ensemble, for 2 violins and viola, and trombone and cello
- one viola
- sound river
- I992 for organ
- V - voices, cello
- VI - violins and ensemble
- VII - piano quartet
- VIII - piano and string quartet : broadcast Fri 21st Jul 1995, 22:25 on BBC Radio 3
- X - string quartet : commissioned by BBC Radio 3