Lara Agar

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	<title>Lara Agar </title>
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		<title>Home</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:11:15 +0000</pubDate>

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	Fields Become Sky, a collaborative project by Monasunne (w. Louis d’Heudières), released on Hyperdelia (2025), listen here


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	Solstice, October House Records (2023)
	
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:49:15 +0000</pubDate>

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RELEASES


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Fields Become Sky, a collaborative project by Monasunne (w. Louis d’Heudières), Hyperdelia (2025)

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Mangetout, single, self release (2022)

	
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		<title>On the Way Out</title>
				
		<link>https://laraagar.com/On-the-Way-Out</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:36:37 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Lara Agar </dc:creator>

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	ON THE WAY OUT (2025)
duration 12’30”
for solo piano, midi keyboard, electronics and Genki ring midi controller, and video
comissioned by Zubin Kanga for the Cyborg Soloists project
premiered on the 31st October 2025, Sound Festival, Aberdeen&#38;nbsp;featuring dancer Greta Schuster

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		<title>And Another</title>
				
		<link>https://laraagar.com/And-Another</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:02:38 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Lara Agar </dc:creator>

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	And Another (2025)
duration 15’00”
for soprano, saxophone (sopr. db. alto) + fixed media electronics
comissioned by Patricia Auchterlonie + David Zucchi&#38;nbsp;
with support from the Hinrichsen Foundation and Marchus Trust
more soon
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		<title>suntime bedtime moontime</title>
				
		<link>https://laraagar.com/suntime-bedtime-moontime</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:31 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Lara Agar </dc:creator>

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	suntime bedtime moontime (2024)duration 8’00”For full Symphony Orchestra
First Performance:&#38;nbsp;Barbican, with the London Symphony Orchestra &#38;amp; Maxime Pascal, Jan 2025


Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra through the LSO Discovery Panufnik Composers&#38;nbsp;Scheme, supported by The Helen Hamlyn Trust

score and audio available on request

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Lara Agar generates musical ideas and solutions through found objects, accidents and improvisation. Although writing for orchestra does not easily offer opportunities for such messy experiments, when she composed her original three-minute version of suntime bedtime moontime for the Helen Hamlyn Panufnik Composers Composer Workshop in 2023 Agar introduced unpredictability by selecting and editing fragments of material as she composed, setting things against each other to see what happened. ‘I like this way of working,’ she said at the time, ‘because then it’s not mine as in, it feels like I didn’t make it up, which is way more exciting. When that first version made contact with the Orchestra itself, however, Agar found another source of unpredictability: that the work could breathe more than she had expected. The opportunity to revise and extend her piec allowed her to engage with another interest in her music: stretching the momentary feelings that coincidences and accidents can prompt. The oddly sinking opening for example, is transcribed from layered digital synthesisers bu then rescored, as though a dial is being manually turned to slow the speed until it feels ‘settled’. suntime bedtime moontime follows the cycle of a day, with an almos childlike simplicity of routine. And yet it is not entirely comfortable: th slight detunings of the orchestra create a fuzzy haziness of sound&#38;nbsp; what the composer describes as both a ‘warming’ and a ‘tightening of pitches. There is a sense of nostalgia (reflected too in the analogue knob-turning gesture of the opening) but also a pinch of pain, like a crick in the neck. ‘Music can do this thing where with stasis, you can stay in a world says Agar. And so, she has created not the reality or stimulus of a particular experience, but instead something holistic, a complete and very human mix of sensations.-Tim Rutherford Johnson, programme note


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		<title>Suns</title>
				
		<link>https://laraagar.com/Suns</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:35 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Lara Agar </dc:creator>

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	Suns (2024)
duration 45’00”
For soprano, mezzo soprano, cello quatet and infrared motion sensors.
Comissioned by Eye Music Trust for Colourscape Music Festival, 2024 First Performance:
 Colourscape Music Festival, September 2024
with Patricia Alchterlonie, Rosalie Warner,  Colin Alexander, Stephanie Tress, Maddie Ashman, Peteris Sokolovskis, motion sensors programmed and built by David Stevens.


audio available on request&#38;nbsp;

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		<title>Waterfall</title>
				
		<link>https://laraagar.com/Waterfall</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:32 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Lara Agar </dc:creator>

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	WATERFALL (2024)duration 8’00”
For chamber ensemble* (2x e. guitar, organ or tpt., cello) + electronics
Commissioned by music we’d like to hear for the Summer Exhibition, 2024
Listen: 


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Performances:&#38;nbsp;
2024
28th June - music we’d like to hear, St. Mary At Hill, The Fargions, Christian Drew and Maddie Ashman
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		<title>they have the fish</title>
				
		<link>https://laraagar.com/they-have-the-fish</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:02:28 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Lara Agar </dc:creator>

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	They have the fish, you love the fish (2024)duration 21’00”
For sextet (fl, cl, vln, vla, vc, pno.) + fixed media electronics&#38;nbsp;
Commissioned by Explore Ensemble and Britten Pears Arts
First Performance
Explore Ensemble, Aldeburgh Festival, 18th June, 2024


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‘If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble’. Lara Agar points to this quote from Sappho
(translated by Mary Beard), in introducing her new work, They have the fish, you love the fish, Agar’s
piece gets straight to chamber music’s magical ability to traverse both personal and worldly scales.

Growing up along the Suffolk coast close to Aldeburgh, Agar’s new work presents a semi-autobiographical reflection of her childhood landscapes and inscapes. Ambling and pondering on life on the east coast, she takes pocket recordings, fragmented field sources, and makes sampled&#38;nbsp;instruments of bones found on the beach. Interspersing these sonic artefacts among the acoustic ensemble, she brings memory to confront reality; future to face past. Her working notes reveal a parallel poetry:

memories and witness of decaying seals
often carcasses — (birds)
nature is not kind
light is often
power station alarms
so the blades of grass were untrodden, red tipped, the most beautiful place on earth graced only by light
and lightfoot. baby heather, and the horse and the trees were there, and thousands of lichen
desperate and hopeless attempts to save something that was beautiful
one attempt destroys the last
intent with love
relationship to environment
un-intervention and non-disturbance — newly damaged terrain
- Nicholas Moroz, programme note for They have the fish, you love the fish
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		<title>This Unquiet Autumn</title>
				
		<link>https://laraagar.com/This-Unquiet-Autumn</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:46 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Lara Agar </dc:creator>

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	This Unquiet Autumn (2021)

duration 15’00”For soprano and piano + midi keyboard
Comissioned by Juliet Fraser for The Carson Comissions


Performances: Juliet Fraser and Mark Knoop
 202510th March - Experimental Music Oxford202318 April -&#38;nbsp; De Link, Tilburg21 April - New Music Dublin202125th September - Musica Sacra, Maastrict, (world premiere)13th October - Oxford Lieder Festival &#124; October (uk premiere)3rd December - Music We’d Like to Hear, London


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In an assemblage of form, this music is not a narration, nor is it a perfect description of Carson’s legacy. Rather, here is an attempt at an experience: uncomfortable, unfinished and unquiet, quietly humorous, a muttering or pondering on Carson’s own voice set amongst a cyclical rumination on the sea, tidal patterns, journeys from birth to death. And, finally, it is a reflection on my own personal (although not unique) failure to do anything to save the natural world, as we know it, from this wild summer. &#60;img width="953" height="540" width_o="953" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7d8135190c22cbf254de56606acb5d57224dc2f1655b1ab51e5d35111f2b135/this-unquiet-autumn.Still009.jpg" data-mid="240506818" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/953/i/b7d8135190c22cbf254de56606acb5d57224dc2f1655b1ab51e5d35111f2b135/this-unquiet-autumn.Still009.jpg" /&#62;&#60;img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cdcab35b03fac71726f5ca08ec3c90a366bc5891afc5c3bb7a402756adf1547/this-unquiet-autumn.Still002.jpg" data-mid="240506815" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/9cdcab35b03fac71726f5ca08ec3c90a366bc5891afc5c3bb7a402756adf1547/this-unquiet-autumn.Still002.jpg" /&#62;&#60;img width="938" height="538" width_o="938" height_o="538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/869e8f3935e22d8ee5e228283e3a29bd85ab67be6ac4e39234a4bf1184ccfe41/this-unquiet-autumn.Still017.jpg" data-mid="240506816" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/938/i/869e8f3935e22d8ee5e228283e3a29bd85ab67be6ac4e39234a4bf1184ccfe41/this-unquiet-autumn.Still017.jpg" /&#62;

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		<title>Ham</title>
				
		<link>https://laraagar.com/Ham-1</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:55 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Lara Agar </dc:creator>

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	Ham (2021)&#38;nbsp;
duration 7’00”for organ, piano, sampler, e guitar, accoustic guiar and electronics (fixed media)Commissioned by the Festival of Laurence Crane, October 2021Listen: 

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Programme note:&#38;nbsp;
Ham is a space-face spaced out homage to the first great ape in Space, Ham, named after the Holloman Aeromedical Laboratory, who safely returned from Space in January 1961.
"he had a smile on his face -- but," said the experts,"that's a sign of great distress,that's a sign of great distress"Dedicated to Laurence Crane on his Birthday. 
Performances:
2023&#38;nbsp;
1st July - Spitalfields Music Festival, Explore Ensemble

2019
18th October - St Giles Cripplegate, Festival of Laurence Crane(Ben Smith, Patrick Hegarty, Darius Paymai, Christian Drew, Matt Geer)

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