The Experience of Jamie: For Wind Orchestra

This is an arrangement of a piece originally scored for for brass quartet. It was commissioned for the WASBE Wind Ensemble and Wind Conducting courses at Sherborne Summer School of Music, and was premiered on 2nd August 2025.

The piece is a musical portrait of American podcast host Joe Rogan, however it might also be considered a self-portrait. It explores discontinuity, multiplicity, and the idea that people are not defined by a single trait alone. It features moments of chaos, fragmented musical and pop-culture references, and harsh oscillations between contrasting genres including traditional English lyrical counterpoint and metal inspired by the Doom 2016 soundtrack. The piece attempts a metamodernist 'ironic sincerity', whereby the earnestness of the pastoral material is set with an insincere distancing through the extreme oscillations with other genres. This asks whether a serious messaging is diminished or enhanced when it is forced to coexist with other elements which may seem more frivolous.