Empty Spaces is a large-scale computer music work. Large scale computer music works can suffer from drawbacks: exhaustive development of timbre at the expense of structure and shortage of materials to sustain a longtimespan. Empty Spaces tackles the problem of creating an expanded form in an age where faster and shorter are demanded by our media public, by harnessing the creative power of natural environments. Empty Spaces will transport you to many different places, some populated, some extremely desolate. At times you may feel that you are the only human presence in a vast, drifting landscape. Familiarity and computer music's effortless ability to take sound out of its original context are my structural allies.This is no classical re-working of pre-digital symphonic form, yet the work is tightly constructed. You can never be sure that your imagination is in a safe space.

Ambrose Field's compositional output includes electroacoustic music for tape, music education works and community music projects.In 1993 he was funded by the British Academy to embark on a PhD in electroacoustic composition with Denis Smalley at City University, London. He is currently a Lecturer in Music at the University of York.