Blue Light for Julian Bream - Derek Gripper (handwritten score)

This is the piece I wrote for The New York Guitar Festival's tribute to Julian Bream. You can see a performance of the piece here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny0JM_z6nTY

The first version of the score is the handwritten iPad score. I created this score by writing and deleting and moving and deleting and copying and pasting over days. So it is an expression of the malleability of iPad and the Apple Pen. So to play the piece I recommend being as free with the score as possible, using the recording as a reference and having a good time creating your own music.

The second version (2023) is a version which I think is more memorable and conducive to playing live and memorising. It is the version I perform in concerts. It is made with hand-stamped manuscript paper with pencil and scanned.