Window into the performance of someone else’s hands, traced and cut up in pieces, computer-aided
recomposition into never-ending patterns, hocketed between worn keys and machines, the space
sounding in answer. I’m wondering what the Alps above the Val d’Anniviers are up to, moving when no
one’s looking, approaching and receding, their parallax caught by melody, valley bells sing in antiphony,
transmitting their beautiful view. Arranged into four parts, Sion Transcriptions’ skips, splices, and dances
through a transcription of Edward Power Biggs’ 1967 recording of Leoninus’ 12th century
organum Hec Dies (Codex Wolfenbuttel 677) performed on the medieval organ at Basilique de Valère
(Sion, Switzerland).

Sam Longbottom is a Manchester-based composer making experimental music for concerts and installations with found, homemade, and traditional instruments. Much of his work explores the imperfect, unusual and unexpected sounds of automated systems and acoustic instruments, of mechanising glitches and peripheral noises. His music has been featured at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Sonorities Festival, in concerts at the Southbank Centre, St John’s Church (London), Manchester Art Gallery, LSO St Luke’s, and broadcast on BBC’s New Music Show. He has previously been a Britten Pears Young Artist, a Manchester Camerata Ruth Sutton Fellow, a resident at Villa Ruffieux (Switzerland), and worked with artists and groups including the LSO, Angarhad Davies, The House of Bedlam, and CoMA.