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• Chris Prosser: Flight  Year: 2000 

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Taonga Puoro: ipu, pahu pounamu, koauau rakau maire, panguru, hure puru hau, poi awhio whio, ua roria rau karamu, putorino rakaumatai, kouaua pponga ihu, kouauau koiwi kuri, koauau koiwi toroa, tumutumu, pupu harakehe, porotiti, purerehua kohatu pounamu, pukaea rakau manuka, karanga manu; Maori instruments and piano improvised (guidelines in score), cello notated

• Gillian Whitehead: Aftermath 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Waka, Kowhai and Tui 

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• Gillian Whitehead: Waka's Love for Kowhai 

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• Gillian Whitehead: The Storm 

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• Whitehead: IPU  Year: 1998 

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2 wind, 2 strings, piano, 2 percussionists, non-western instruments

Monkey Trips is based upon the Tibetan Buddhist metaphor of the six states/realms of being which we constantly recreate and assume to be reality, six “different kinds of projections or dream worlds” (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche). Each realm is associated with a particular instrument and the piece moves through them successively.

The Heaven Realm (violin), realm of serenity and stasis in which the monkey dwells on her achievements, blocking out everything undesirable; the intrusion of another player draws her out of this solipsistic state and into dialogue.

In the Human Realm (cello), realm of passion and intellect, the monkey becomes discriminating – exploring, comparing, reaching out to possess the pleasurable, but discovering that pleasure slips away and craving creates frustrations. However, the idea of unity emerges.

Those frustrations impel a retreat into the Animal Realm (bass clarinet), away from intensity into the habitual, rooting around in a more limited world, clinging stubbornly to the safely familiar, whether painful or comfortable.

Then a desperate feeling of starvation sets in, the realm of the Hungry Spirits (flutes); visions of open space and of plenty turn into deprivation. A thirsting for what monkey remembers she once had becomes insatiable. Always reaching out but never realising that in order to drink, you have to first open your throat.


The Hell Realm (percussion): a feeling of being trapped in a small space, of struggling to control this self-created imprisonment. The more she struggles, the more solid grow the walls until rage is exhausted. Then the monkey begins to let go, and suddenly sees that the walls are self-created, the realms are self-created. She breaks through into open space.

• Lockwood: Monkey Trips; facsimile 

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• Lontano: New Zealand Women Composers 

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In 1994 both Chris Prosser and brother Nick were injured. Chris had a seized neck, Nick a collapsed lung. By playing and recording this music together, they were cured!

Neck and Lung (Week II) is a suite of 36 short pieces.

• Chris Prosser - Neck & Lung (Week 2) 

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Piece of 4 was composed in Europe in September/October 1980 for the Bourges Experimental Music Festival in June, 1982. It combines my thoughts on music from found objects and on chance music, while also exploring the theme of “4”.

The first performance of Piece of 4 was on 4 June, 1982 in the Robert McDougal Art Gallery in Christchurch.

Kit Powell

• Powell: Piece of 4; facsimile  

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• Kit Powell - 70th Birthday Celebration - Three Chance Pieces plus One 

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violin, clarinet, cello. piano, banjo/mandolin/guitar/electric guitar, double bass, accordion, drums

• Jonathan Besser: Mr. Darwin's Dances  Year: 1999 

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PVC pipes, drums, bass-drones, soprano saxophone, tone trees, zitherum, voices, hand-clapping, cello, harmonics and piano horns

Heroes are travellers who journey into uncharted regions of human experience to tame the ‘tigers’ which dwell there. Songs for Heroes is a tribute to these people, echoing their search with a journey through rhythm and melody.

• From Scratch: Songs for Heroes  Year: 1991 

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Spencer Street Station is collaboration between the poet Spencer Jeffery and composer James Dunlop. It combines spoken word with music and sound scape art.

In an audio flim style it portrays the stuggle of a working class man trying to find meaning in his life. His searching is meatphorically represented through travel as he describes his past, present, and hopes for the future.


James Dunlop, August 2008

• James Dunlop: Spencer Street Station 

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for B flat clarinet, tenor saxophone, percussion, contrabass - there is improvisation within set structures mostly for the tenor saxophone and contrabass

In my work as a composer I have found bringing together classical and jazz musicians to be a rich and unique way of working. I have experience in both fields and my compositional talent and interest lies genuinely across the two art forms.

This piece has been specifically composed for these performers and their unique sets of skills. Each performer is of a very high calibre and each possesses something special and unique in their playing and approach to music making. Mike Kime and Reuben Derrick often have moments of freedom as they are both accomplished improvisers. Gretchen Dunsmore and Mark Le Roche are classically trained performers with excellent skills and intelligent ears and minds. I knew that each of them would bring something to the work that would be unique and exciting.

More recently my creative interest in movement and form has expanded to contemporary dance and I wanted to involve and include another artistic discipline in this work. Collaborating with Julia Milsom has been an exciting new venture for me. The nature of the sounds within the piece are highly applicable to contemporary dance and have been interpreted and expressed with considerable talent and skill by Julia.

Layers of sound in time is a theme I have developed extensively in the piece. The layers interact, evolve, contrast, compliment, and conflict with each other to create a depth of space and time between them.

The work is an exploration of the timelessness that comes in moments of deep introspection through evocative sounds and movement.

Alex van den Broek

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• Alex van den Broek: Still Standing Silent; video 

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• Alex van den Broek: Still Standing Silent  Year: 2009 

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