Paul Ayres: Covidea III for organ

Composer's Notes: "The cantus firmus in the pedal part is taken from the genome sequence for COVID-19. Interpreting the first line of code, "attaaaggtt tataccttcc caggtaacaa accaaccaac tttcgtctc ttgtagatct", each letter is a minim: A, G and C are musical notes, and T is a rest. My idea was to make something beautiful, or at least pleasant, out of something that isn't. Although written in 2020, I am not ashamed to acknowledge clear stylistic influences of composers such as Franck, Fauré, Duruflé, Standford, Vaughan Williams and Howells!"

Recorded and published to Youtube with kind permission by Paul Ayres.