EARWORM - OLIVER SEARLE
Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. Tue 1 Aug
You know that annoying feeling when a tune gets stuck in your head and won't budge? Well. it now has a name that describes the experience pretty much spot on — earworm. Taken from the German word from which it originated - ohrwurm - it is also the title of young Scottish composer Oliver Searle's newest orchestral piece. ‘It came from a word spoken to me by a hearing- impaired colleague on a Cochlear implant. The earworm is a phenomenon most people have experienced and
can be particularly irritating.‘
Searle himself is something of a phenomenon too. Still in his late twenties and currently completing a PhD in composition at the RSAMD, he has already had a string of prestigious commissions leading up to this latest one from the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland for their flagship symphony orchestra. Paragon Ensemble,
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For Searle, the earworm is something that he experiences on an almost daily baSIs. 'I find that it starts in a number of ways.‘ he says. 'and usually manifests itself by the repetition of a short phrase, during which
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