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This work was commissioned by the 2002 New Zealand International Festival of Arts as an “encore” for the three string quartets who had participated in a triple-bill concert. In a kind of energetic flurry, each quartet plays its own version of a simple 4-note motive. Three other motives also appear as “cultural tags”: Singapore being pentatonic, New Zealand as somewhat self-effacing, and Mexico reminiscent of the South American protest song “The People United Shall Never be Defeated”.

• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 6 - Composer Portrait: Jack Body  Year: 2003 

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• Stabler: Licks; computer-set 

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Quintro was conceived as an electroacoustic, real-time performance work using a standard acoustic composition for five double basses along with the MAX or Pro Tools computer program, for electroacoustic enhancement. Either electroacoustic enhancement, or a performance with straight and unprocessed acoustic sound can be employed at the performers’ discretion. Quintro is designed to showcase unlimited aspects in sound production for the double bass either way. Basses 2 and 4 work as a unit and should be placed together on one side of the stage, opposite basses 3 and 5, who also work as a unit. Solo bass 1 should then be located in the middle of the stage, between the two groups.

The three movements are titled: 1. Smooth Flow 2. Ebb 3. Return. ‘Smooth Flow’ begins the musical voyage in a relaxed, unhurried manner with the solo over top of a constant quaver flow spread throughout the ensemble. The structure includes a retrograde in the solo from mid-way to the end. ‘Ebb’ is largely abstract, with eerie glissando harmonics and low pedal drones. The ensemble conveys a sense of improvisation, in contrast to the steady cross-rhythms and melody of the outer movements. Improvisation of any sort by the performers is encouraged by the composer for this movement. ‘Return’ picks up the pace for a speedy journey home. The constant, but faster quaver flow keeps the momentum while the solo alternates different melodies and effects over the top. The work ends with a recapitulation of a pizzicato segment from the ‘smooth flow’ melody, at bar 34 of the first movement.

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Tango Suite was originally commissioned by Radio France in 2002 and written in the same year, It is a short song cycle which sets the poetry of Argentinian poets and was first recorded in Paris at Radio France by Madeleine Jalbert – contralto, Quatuor Diotima (Nicolas Miribel, Eiichi Chijiiwa, Franck Chevalier, Pierre Morlet), & Jean-Olivier Bacquet – double bass. The original version was broadcast in January and April 2003 on France Musiques, and in August 2003 on France Culture.

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• Music by Nigel Keay 

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• Palmer, J.: Te Kahu; computer set 

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Composed for solo violin and performed as part of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, “The Dance of the Sibyl” was inspired by several paintings entitled “The Lane of the Sibyl” by the English born painter Elizabeth Haines which illustrate the dark lanes of overhanging trees and foliage with chinks of light in South West Wales where she lives.

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• Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Vol. 11 - Chamber Music III  Year: 2010 

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