To capture this feeling of leaving, the word I kept in mind when recording was ‘bittersweet’. The word ‘Sunsleeper’ references a particular mental image I have of my youngest sister, asleep against the window of our car in bright light. Lyrically, I chose to manifest this feeling as a journey my family often take on bank holidays, from our home near London to a beach on the south coast of England. I understand this feeling as a mixture of pride, in seeing the women that they are slowly becoming, and regret, as I feel as if I am losing the people that I once knew so well. “'Sunsleeper' is about leaving home for university and missing the chance to see my younger sisters grow up. Josephine said this about the inspiration behind her song: Outside of composing, she is particularly interested in the application of the visual arts to music, often using colour theory and her own paintings as a symbolic crux in her songs. She has been writing and recording music since she was about fourteen and, although she is yet to perform live, is hoping to build a career as a singer-songwriter after leaving university. Josephine is a third-year music student and choral scholar at University College. The members of the panel would like to congratulate the winners and also extend their heartfelt thanks to all those who participated in the competition. The panel also gave an honourable mention to Eve Caston (a second-year music student at St Peter's) for her song "Bitten like a Dog."īelow you'll find MP3s of the winning submissions, with information about songwriters and their songs.
Second prize went to "Epilogue," a song co-written by Briana Williams and Aris Sabetai (both first-year music students at Somerville). This year's winning song is "Sunsleeper" by Josephine Illingworth-Law (a third-year music student at University College). Submissions were reviewed by Rawz (Rory Campbell, St John’s 2022 Sound Artist in Residence) Tiece (Tessa Cavanna, singer/producer and Assistant Producer, Oxford Contemporary Music) Sarah Hill (Associate Professor of Popular Music at the Faculty of Music and Tutor at St Peter's College) and Jason Stanyek (Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Music and Fellow and Tutor at St John’s College). The quality of the songs was uniformly high, with a breathtakingly wide spectrum of genres represented. Open to all current students at the University of Oxford, the competition drew 20 submissions from students across a range of colleges and degree programmes.
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