The West Pier Project is an on-going electro-acoustic, mixed-media audio and visual work by Michael J. Stewart. The project takes its title from the remnant of Brighton's now iconic West Pier, which forms an idée fixe throughout. It also acts, like Proust's 'Madeleine cake' in A la recherché du temps perdu, as a catalyst for involuntary memory. The project is semi-autobiographical and makes reference to memories past, present and future - since time exists in all directions simultaneously. The work from which the project stems can be heard below, an is simply titled West Pier. 

West Pier Late afternoon – Autumn 1968 – West Pier, Brighton, East Sussex. Scored for computer- manipulated sounds. Composed: November 2005

Traces - Ambient Drone. Composed 2012.

In the echoing streets the ghost of you haunts me was composed in 2012. Florentine associations. An accompanying film/video installation will be created by Maria Felix Korporal for The West Pier Project. 

Almora Triptych - an opera. The Almora Triptych is a projected 10 min opera based on a paintings of the same name by Brian Fogarty. There are poetic references to Eugene Montale's poem Personae Seperatae. "Are we the same personages serperated by the gaze of another?".

Here, just here.

X marks the spot.

Seaward, measured, mathmatical proportion.

Everything sound and steady.

Promenade sentimental.