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John Rimmer  

Ancestral Voices

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2000
electroacoustic work

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Thomas Goss  

Broken Glass

Duration: 17' 05" Year: 2000
a suite for violin and guitar

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    Broken Glass portrays a dialogue between two opposing natures about the passing of beauty as represented by the two instruments of guitar and violin. It is a meditation on how two people create the ending within themselves for their mutual story, and collaborate through both tension and surrender to bring that ending to life.

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John Ritchie  

Missa in Sanctissimi Pauli Apostoli Honorem

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2000
for chorus SSAATTBB

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John Psathas  

Omnifenix

Duration: 16' 00" Year: 2000
for tenor saxophone, drumkit and orchestra

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Juliet Palmer  

Pale on the ground

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2000
alto flute/flute, violin, viola, cello and double bass

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    When a handful of 9,000 year-old flutes were unearthed recently in China, the first impulse of the archaeologists was to play them. While hoping to reconnect to a lost time and culture, the archaeologists succeeded in cracking several of the instruments. More careful study revealed that the flutes were tuned to ‘familiar’ scales, enabling their former owners to play ‘perhaps even music’. A researcher then performed a Chinese folk tune, Little Cabbage, on one of the flutes. Xiao Bai Cai is the heartfelt lament of a child usurped by a stepmother and new stepbrother: ‘pale on the ground’, Little Cabbage weeps for the past.

    With its mixture of carelessness, optimism and nostalgic yearning for times past, this story fascinates me. In 9,000 years time, what will other beings make of the crumbling remains of violins, flutes and double basses? Pale on the Ground is an invented music built on the imagined ruins of our own fragile culture.

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John Psathas  

Piano Quintet

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 2000
for string quartet and piano

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Gillian Whitehead  

the improbable ordered dance

Duration: 18' 00" Year: 2000
for full orchestra

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    3334, 4331, hp, pf, timp, perc. 3 players (resaresa (rainstick), 7 roto-toms, xylophone, vibraphone, claves, metal chimes, tamtam,bass drum,tapped stones, 5 suspended cymbals, flax bundle, 5 woodblocks, guiro) strs.
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    In his 1974 collection ‘The lives of a Cell’, Lewis Thomas wrote a memorable essay devoted to the spectrum of sound made by all living creatures. He believes that as well as producing sounds in every possible way to send messages to their own kind, all creatures have the urge to make some kind of music. The rhythmic sounds emitted by all creatures might, Lewis suggests ‘be the recapitulation of something else – an earliest memory, a score for the transformation of inanimate random matter in chaos into the improbable ordered dance of living forms.’ It was this essay, together with my fascination in the rediscovery of the part of Auckland I knew as a young child, that have shaped this piece.

    The basis of the piece is the twelve possible three-note groups which function to form molecular structures – harmonic, textural, gestural, melodic – some simple, some complex, often symmetrical. The piece could be regarded as part of a classical tradition, in that it focuses primarily on balance of pitch and orchestration rather than on gesture or programmatic elements, and places the instrumental writing well within the range of the instruments rather than exploiting their extremes.

    The improbable ordered dance is in a single movement and begins with a ghostly chant-like melody over a drone; this recurs in different forms several times during the piece. A transition section based on transformed sounds of nocturnal birds leads to a metrically free ‘dawn chorus’. The following chorale-like passages and the rapid sections that follow are part of a restless upward-moving continuum which can never settle nor ever finish. The later sections of the piece recycle, combine and finally dissipate the earlier material.

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Chris Cree Brown  

Under Erebus

Duration: 15' 00" Year: 2000
electroacoustic work

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    ‘Under Erebus’: in November 1999 I was fortunate to be able to travel to Antarctica as part of the Artists to Antarctica programme run under the auspices of Antarctica New Zealand. While on the ‘ice’, I recorded several sounds, many of which are included in this piece. The work is an attempt to create an expressive work of sonic art that reflects my personal interpretation of the environment of Antarctica and my experiences there. The Antarctic sounds incorporated into the work are (in order) the sounds of Walking on Snow, Suas, Polar Wind, Radio Communications, Weddell Seals, an Adelie Penguin Rookery and Antarctic White Out. My Antarctic experience is one of the most significant and important experiences of my life. The various moods, expansive grandeur and majestic ice-scapes of Antarctica have left a deep and enduring impression. With thanks to Antarctic New Zealand, Creative New Zealand and Dr. Joe Waas (University of Waikato) whose recordings of the Weddell Seals augmented my own.

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Gareth Farr  

Warriors from Pluto

Duration: 17' 00" Year: 2000
concerto for five percussion soli and double string orchestra

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