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PIPEWORKS: New Music for the Moot Hall Organ

The PIPEWORKS project was an opportunity for East Anglian composers to write new music for the restored instrument, with an added incentive of prize money

A Cover for the Souvenir Programme

When creating an artwork for this Moot Hall Organ project, the ideas that carried through from the exciting learning and participation sessions (which Duncan Chapman

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Familiar and Strange: Organs and Oysters

SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ORGAN AND PARTICIPATION PROJECTS by Duncan Chapman Project Animateur             For those of us who grew

Firstsite

 by Judith Merritt Head of Learning Firstsite is a visual arts organisation based in Colchester, Essex. Our mission is to make contemporary art relevant to

What makes the Colchester Moot Hall organ special?

Robert Hope-Jones demonstrating his new electric-action pipe organ; he is playing outside the church, but all the pipes are sounding within the building by William McVicker Project consultant

A Brief History of the Moot Hall Organ

The magnificent three-manual organ was built in 1902 at a cost of £1000 by Messrs. Norman & Beard, popularly regarded as the pre-eminent organ builders of the

The Art and Industry of Pipework

PIPEWORK: the perfect word to describe the reconstruction project of the grand organ. Colchester New Music became involved with The Moot Hall Organ Project in