Commissioned by The Mary Webb Society, Green Pulse uses a narration of Mary Webb's poem The Little Hill as the basis for a sprawling, relaxing, meditative soundscape.
The sounds of the dawn chorus in Mary Webb's beloved Shropshire were recorded and woven into the piece.
The piece received its premiere in Ludlow, Shropshire, June 2019.
"This is the hill, ringed by the misty shire -
The mossy, southern hill,
The little hill where larches climb so high.
Among the stars aslant
They chant;
Along the purple lower slopes they lie
In lazy golden smoke, more faint, more still
Than the pale woodsmoke of the cottage fire.
Here some calm Presence takes me by the hand
And all my heart is lifted by the chant
Of them that lean aslant
In golden smoke, and sing, and softly bend:
And out from every larch-bole steals a friend."