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Instrumentation
Javanese rebab, slenthem (pelog), gambang (slendro), sound technician(s)
Programme Note

Shifting Shadows (2012) is inspired by Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie 1 (1964), in which the sounds of a tam-tam are manipulated in real time by the movement of hand-held microphones and through electronic filtering and diffusion of the amplified sound.

In my work three traditional Javanese gamelan instruments – gambang (xylophone), slenthem (metalophone), and rebab (spiked fiddle) – are activated by an array of household materials to generate sounds. In live performance I intend for additional ‘players’ to create other layers of sound using a microphone as a musical instrument. The recording attempts to convey this layering of sound.

The character of Shifting Shadows was inspired by the idea of the ‘familiar spirit’, which in old European folklore is a supernatural entity, sometimes taking the form of an animal or human figure, to assist witches and other cunning folk. The sounds used in Shifting Shadows are eerie, intimate and gestural, giving the impression of an unknown creature.
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- Briar Prastiti: Shifting Shadows - hardcopy score
  
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John Psathas

Year: 2005
for marimba and vibraphone, with two CD players

Programme Note

Ukiyo – a duo for vibraphone, marimba and with digital audio, was jointly commissioned by Jeremy Fitzsimons and Chamber Music New Zealand, with funding support from Creative New Zealand, for performance by Double Lateral (Jeremy Fitzsimons and Kristie Ibrahim). The work was first performed by Double Lateral at the Ilott Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand, on 2 October 2005.

Zen monks and haiku poets spoke of life in terms of a transient ‘floating world’ (Ukiyo), or of a dream that vanishes. In the traditional Buddhist view, our corporeal existence is one in which happening gives way to happening, illusion follows illusion, and all is nothing but a phantasm void of substance.
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- Psathas: Ukiyo
  
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- Psathas: Ukiyo; computer-set Year: 2007
  
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- Psathas: Ukiyo; computer-set Year: 2007
  
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- John Psathas: Ukiyo; video
  
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- John Psathas: Ukiyo (part 2 of 2); video
  
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- John Psathas: Ukiyo (part 1 of 2); video
  
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- John Psathas: Ukiyo Year: 2010
  
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Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2007
Javanese gamelan and recorded voice

Programme Note

Inspired by my transcribing of Benicio Sokkong’s singing of a fragment of the Ullalim epic of the Kalinga, northern Philippines.
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- Now I Know - New Music for Gamelan and Winds
  
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- Anton Killin: Ullalim
  
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Duration: 1h 00' 00" Year: 1975
10 channels of tape and large gong

Programme Note

This work combines tam-tam with 10 channels of taped environmental sounds mixed live as a improvisation.

“The erratic astral sputtering of pulsars, and of rumbling volcanic and earthquake activity, are especially impressive. Human musicians will probably never produce sounds quite as awesome as these.” Tom Johnson, Village Voice.
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- Annea Lockwood and Ruth Anderson: Sinopah Year: 1997
  
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