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Philip Dadson  

An Archaeology of Stones

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1996
a sound/performance with 'song stones' and sound stories

Eve de Castro-Robinson  

and the garden was full of voices

 Year: 2010
a sound-cycle for vocalizing pianist

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    for piano
  • Programme Note

    This work is dedicated to Barry Margan, who commissioned it. We collaborated extensively on its inspirations, sonic, literary and metaphysical and he provided the poetic titles of the first and third movements. The title (and that of the second movement) and the garden was full of voices is from a line of Bill Manhire’s: I stayed a minute/and the garden was full of voices.

    The garden and its metaphorical voices, songs, chants and echoes come to life in this ritualistic and meditative work, from the tui calls of the first movement, transcribed directly from my garden, to the more abstracted whistles and nocturnal, dreamlike vocalisations of the second and third. A preoccupation with repeated notes throughout sprang from those of the tui which pervaded Auckland this summer.

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Gillian Whitehead  

Arapatiki

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2004
a "landscape prelude" for piano

Gillian Whitehead  

"Aria" from Outrageous Fortune

 Year: 1998
for soprano, taonga puoro, flute, bassoon, cello and piano

Michelle Scullion  

Bad Taste

 Year: 1987
music for film (produced and directed by Peter Jackson)

Annea Lockwood  

Bow Falls

 Year: 2003
music for video by Paul Ryan

  • Programme Note

    This interpretation of Bow Falls is a collaboration in accord with the Earthscore Notational System. This notation assumes that there are patterns in waterflow that can be communicated electronically. Video artist Paul Ryan uses handheld camerawork, slow motion, reverse motion and negative color fields to compose four movements in video. Using only non-sync sound recorded at the Falls, both at the surface and underwater, Annea Lockwood composed a sound study which engages in a play of differences with the video images. The work was co-produced with the Banff Art Center in 2003.

    Paul Ryan is an artist, author and teacher whose video works have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and internationally. His program for a Hall of Risk in lower Manhattan appeared in the Venice Biennale. NASA published his Earthscore Notational System, on which Bow Falls draws.

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Chris Cree Brown  

Cellocution

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1996
sound installation

Lyell Cresswell  

Chiaroscuro

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2005
a "landscape prelude" for piano

Gareth Farr  

Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra 'Celebrate Wellington'

Duration: 20' 00" Year: 2004
for four percussion soloists and orchestra

Peter Scholes (composer)  

Desperate Remedies

 Year: 1993
orchestral music for the film produced by James Wallace and directed by Stewart Main and Peter Wells