Goodbye to Innocence
Concert composition
Transiting Light — A musical journey in five movements
ORCHESTRA · FIVE MOVEMENTS · APPROX. 20 MINUTES
TRANSITING LIGHTORCHESTRA · APPROX. 20 MINUTES
Movement.
Expectation.
Arrival.
From Paris to Algeciras, a railway journey becomes a reflection on life, change and arrival. Light is the thread that passes through it all.
Recurring musical ideas take on new forms, carried by modal colour and changing orchestral textures. The work asks how music can create a sense of arrival without a conventional tonal resolution.
Request score & recordingFive stations.
Open a movement to follow the journey.
IParis Gare du Nord
The departure point of the five-movement cycle. Recurring motifs begin a journey of transformation, with the railway acting as a metaphor for the passage through life.
IIBarcelona Sants
The second station in the journey from Paris towards southern Spain. Part of a continuous musical narrative, it carries the work forward through changing modal and motivic processes.
IIIMadrid Atocha
At the centre of the route, Madrid is the third of the five stations. The cycle’s concern with expectation, change and arrival continues through the contrasting character of each movement.
IVGranada Andaluces
Andalusian harmonic ideas meet a Phrygian environment. A descending cadence, pedals and the resonance of fourths and fifths give this movement its distinctive musical character.
VAlgeciras The final station
The journey reaches its final station. An accumulative process shapes the closing movement, bringing the cycle’s exploration of continuity and transformation towards its conclusion.
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FROM THE EARLIER CATALOGUE
My instrumental albums Forgotten Landscapes, The Dark Star and The Darkest Star were released under the name Joey Martin. Their interest in atmosphere and narrative continues in my work today.
INFO
Innovation
through reflection.
I’m Jose Martin, a contemporary classical composer, writer and interviewer, based in London.
I’m drawn to the orchestra: its colours, its contrasts and its capacity to hold an unfolding narrative.
Today, my writing brings together lyricism, modal and tonal language, recurring motifs and orchestral colour. I’m interested in how a familiar idea can change, how expectation can be interrupted and how music can find its own sense of arrival.
Alongside composing, I explore music and creative life through writing, listening projects and conversations on my YouTube channel.
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Jose Martin is a contemporary classical composer, writer and interviewer, based in London. His music brings together lyricism, modal and tonal language, recurring motifs and orchestral colour. His five-movement orchestral work Transiting Light follows a symbolic railway journey from Paris to Algeciras. Earlier instrumental albums appeared under the name Joey Martin. Alongside composition, his YouTube channel explores music, listening and creative life.
LISTENINGJOSE MARTIN, COMPOSER · YOUTUBE
Beyond the score.
Original music, creative conversations and reflections on listening.
Visit YouTube (opens in a new tab)A CONVERSATIONHow Music
How Music
Moves Us
Carlos Amador on designing emotion
Music, creativity and emotional expression. Watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
53 CLASSICAL MASTERPIECESMozart
Mozart
Lacrimosa
Requiem · Episode 4
Listening and commentary on the classical repertoire. Watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
CONTACTPERFORMANCES & COLLABORATION
Bring the music
into the room.
I welcome conversations with musicians, ensembles and venues about readings, performances and future collaborations.
I’m developing a charity concert around Transiting Light, with orchestral and chamber possibilities under discussion.
For scores, recordings and performance enquiries:
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