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guitar and ensemble (2-6 players) - instrumentation is flexible (and suggested size is also only a suggestion)

• Brownlee: As if to catch the fleeting tail of time; computer-set 

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• Two pieces by Philip Brownlee 

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“Tradition, as I first came to feel it (as a child of 9 years), was given to me by grand father when he was teaching me how to play the clarinet. To me this traditional musical language is not an ‘old loveless spinster who raises her threatening finger like an old time teacher’. My feeling about traditional ways of musical expression is exactly the opposite. It resembles a young girl full of juices, pleased and sorry, vivid and loving, that dances barefoot on the ground; as if being taken by a desire to sin, but then again she repents it. Later she falls in love, wishes to break the rules so to live and breathe freely. No concrete use of instruments no formal orchestration, or particular musical formation can capture her essence.”

Manos Achalinotopoulos

• John Psathas/Nederlands Blazers Ensemble: Zeibekiko  Year: 2004 

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• Zirkus! – Sirius Music 

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percussion, tone-trees, voices, hand clapping

• Dadson: Fax to Paris 

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• New Zealand Music for Creative Dance 

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• Different Tracks  Year: 1993 

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“One of the principal glories of the film is the score by John Psathas, in which genuine sweep and poetry are combined with affectionate send-ups of Ennio Morricone. It would be a major achievement for an experienced film composer; as a first film score, it’s little short of astonishing.” — Jim Svejda, Classical KUSC (Los Angeles)

• John Psathas: Soundtrack from Good for Nothing  Year: 2011 

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Like many whakataukī, or traditional sayings, he rimu pae noa conveys a rich range of meanings. Literally, it describes seaweed set in motion by the tide. Metaphorically, it also refers the restlessness of a traveller, and the movement of a whole bed of seaweed in the same current alludes to a group of people working in harmony. This in particular has a strong resonance with the collaborative process from which the piece arose. The instrumental ensemble provides a framework, and a backdrop, for the improvisation of the taonga pūoro. At the same time it attempts to maintain its own identity, in conversation with the solo lines. Precisely specified gestural events are distributed in a flexible rhythmic framework,
which aims at a balance between control and spontaneity. I am deeply grateful to Horomona Horo, for a richly rewarding collaboration, and to Richard Nunns, whose work over many years is a deep source of inspiration.

Philip Brownlee

• Brownlee: He rimu pae noa; computer-set 

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• Zirkus! – Sirius Music 

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Draped in the skins of fawns, crowned with wreaths of ivy and carrying he thyrsos – a staff wound with ivy leaves and topped with a pine cone – the Maenads roamed the mountains and woods, seeking to assimilate the potency of the beasts that dwelled there and celebrating their god Dyonisos with song, music and dance.

The human spirit demands Dionysiac ecstasy; to those who accept it, the experience offers spiritual power. For those who repress the natural force within themselves, or refuse it to others, it is transformed into destruction, both of the innocent and the guilty. When possessed by Dionysos, the Maenads became savage and brutal. They plunged into a frenzied dance, obtaining an intoxicating high and a mystical ecstasy that gave them unknown powers, making them the match of the bravest hero.

John Psathas

• John Psathas/Nederlands Blazers Ensemble: Zeibekiko  Year: 2004 

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Percussion - for any number of players with free choice of instruments. 'Pitches' are suggestive only.

For several years I had been promising Andrew a new piece for bass clarinet, and previously worked in Vancouver with Barry Truax’s POD system to produce some intriguing granulation files derived from notes played by Andrew. These languished unused until 2003 when I heard some wonderful frogs singing in the middle of the night at Chulalongkorn University of Bangkok, and managed to get some recordings. These two sources, plus some transformed temple bell recordings and a mad chorus of police whistles in evening traffic, provided the source material for the soundscape. I began writing the music for bass clarinet around this soundscape.
Much of the bass clarinet part is composed using a synthetic scale which is different in each octave. Although the end result is an arbitrary invention which pleased me, the original inspiration came from exploring the relationship between the Thai seven note scale and pentatonic scales. I had originally been thinking that Thai percussion instruments might be appropriate for the percussion part, but have since decided that the any available instruments may be used. The first performance used a mixture of ‘junk’ percussion (e.g. bowls, cans and flower pots) and bongo drums, but any experiments are welcome.

• Elmsly: Nocturne; electroacoustic part 

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• Elmsly: Nocturne; computer-set 

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• Elmsly: Nocturne (clarinet part only); computer-set 

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• Elmsly: Nocturne; computer-set 

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• Elmsly: Nocturne; computer-set 

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• John Elmsly: Nocturne; audio 

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• Two Works by John Elmsly 

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oboe/ violin duet (or other instruments with the same range), clarinet in B flat, violin section (at least 2 players), cello or cello section; Perc 1: glockenspiel. triangle, slide-whistle, whistle, egg-shakers, cap-gun or 2x 'party poppers'; Perc 2: typewriter, woodblock, bicycle horn, aluminium frying pan, vibra-slap, piano; everybody in the group also needs to have a 'kazoo'

• Lauder: Noisy Types; computer set 

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• Lauder: Noisy Types; computer-set 

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• Lauder: Noisy Types 

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