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Lissa Meridan  

a quiet fury

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 2008
for symphony orchestra and live electronics

  • Programme Note

    During 2007 I spent a lot of time making field recordings of background noise in Paris, and analysing the spectral and rhythmic content of those recordings. I found the more I listened to my recordings, the more musical material I found hidden in these background hisses and hums, chatterings and otherwise banal noises: rhythms, mysterious melodies, energies and harmonic tensions. While working on this commission for the NZSO, I decided to try to capture the intrinsic musical essences I could hear in my field recordings, and interpret those sounds in an orchestral context, with the juxtaposition of the original noise recordings finding musical relationships in the orchestral counterpart. The resulting piece is a conjuring of various energies, or furies, caught in the background noise of Paris, and finding their way into the back of my throat to be sung into a quiet fury.

    Lissa Meridan

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Chris Cree Brown  

Celestial Bodies

Duration: 25' 00" Year: 2004, r. 2005
for orchestra, electro-acoustic sounds and images

Jonathan Besser  

Jean

Duration: 1h 30' 00" Year: 1990
ballet in three acts for full orchestra, based on the life of Jean Batten

Gareth Farr  

Te Papa - Log drum 'n' bass mix

Duration: 05' 17" Year: 1999
rework of original work for soloists and orchestra